Stress level poll

[oclor]

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I thought it would be interesting to see how many of you think this whole application process is too stressful/not stressful at all/or just right. Personally I have thought I couple of times that if I didn't have a loving family I would have killed myself by now lol.
What I'm referring to here is mainly the waiting. We wait for aadsas to process our application, to verify our transcripts, for our DAT scores to get to aadsas, for aadsas to send the applications/LORs, for the schools to get them (usually have to call to make sure), for interviews, for decisions, and who knows what else I'm gonna have to wait for until I start. One day I feel optimistic, one day I feel like my entire future is ruined. This all just seems like BS. I wish schools would just list there requirements, from DAT scores to GPA to volunteering/shadowing hours and if you met those requirements you were accepted automatically and immediately. I know it's not that simple but I just wish there was a way to avoid this immensely stressful waiting process.

 

[TheWiredNerv]

The entire application procress is very stressful. You have to do well on your DATs, do well in your classes, write a good personal statement, wait forever for any part of the application to be procressed, pay a lot of money, miss class for interviews, do well on interviews, wait some more and try not to get owned in classes if you missed a lot.

 

[DrSmiles12]

I didn't think it was too stress full, I mean my stats are no where perfect but the process was so long and drug out that I couldn't stress. The worst part was waiting for Dec 1st!

 

[CaliGirl15]

If I could vote twice I would say very stressful the first time around because I had no clue what I was doing, and did so many things wrong. But the second time around it was just the right amount of stress, mostly just waiting not real stress.

 

[Montserrat]

Heh. "Just the right amount of stress ?" Why yessuh, this stress right 'ere seems about appropriate.

But seriously, this process has been pretty stressful. If I weren't working full time, it would probably feel worse. The waiting for schools to respond isn't the stressful part - what has my stomach in a knot is now knowing how things might change for my fiance and I in the next few months.

 

[armorshell]

Looking back on it I don't remember it being too bad, but then again I also remember losing a ton of sleep before the interviews started coming.

 

[Prometheous19]

Its been just the right amount of stress for me. Just enough to call these past six months the best of my life. I travelled to seven different cities for intervies, visited old friends, visited family I hadnt seen in ages, travelled with new friends that are also applying, missed a couple of flights, was in boston the day the Red Sox won the World series, lost my luggage once, had some philly cheesetake at Genos, Visited New York for a weekend, watched some indy films at the IFC center in Greenwich village, worried my ass of because everytime that I came home from an interview I had a Microbio test the next day, worried because I am wasting so much money that I didnt have, worried that I wouldnt get any interviews, that It was too late when I applied, that I wouldnt do good enough in the interview, getting drunk on December 1st, getting pissed that UF rejected me, travelling with my friends to Gainsville 3 times to see if we would bump into any ADCOMS(Didnt happen), coming back to my girlfriend everytime I was worried that I wasnt going to get in, all the late night cramming, the 4 AM cramming, the sleepless nights, the group studying and camping in the library (sleeping bags an all), the worrying about my other friends who didnt get in, the happiness from some of my friends that somehow managed to get in, the happiness that I had a variety of schools to choose from when Nov 30 came, the extasis when I found out that I had gotten a scholarship from Penn (Im still shocked), the waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, then the waiting for connection flights, the waiting from AADSAS, the waiting from each school to call me, the waiting on the phone because my Debit card was on the minus end, the waiting for november 30th, the nerve recking UF interview, eating sushi all around the states, cancelling offers or interviews from schools, deciding where to go, worrying about payments, loans and housing, becoming a hermit for a month in order to study for the DAT, etc, etc etc.

I've done so much, and so many new things in the past 6 months, that made the stress somehow feel like a build up for the goodies that where to come. looking back, I can say that I was extremely stressed at some points during the application process, but as a whole, I had the time of my life! It feels so good to be back home(Central america) and be able to sleep till 12PM every day, see my family and relax with my friends. Somehow, I miss all the hassle that these past 6 months have been...

 

[laundry]

i was gonna choose the middle one but then remembered that this is the result my cranial pelage is progressing towards a state of being a "dome on a prairie"...

 

[pestermen]

Highly stressful. This application process was so expensive for me that I probably wouldn't have the funds to apply strong next cycle! 😱🙁

 

[Slutskya]

It was stressful but not unbearable. Perhaps my full-time job and O-Chem class Tues. and Thurs. evenings kept me sane. I do agree there's a lot of waiting to be done. However, the most stressful part for me is actually thinking of moving. When should I officially quit my job? How many weeks or months before should I move? Will I find an apartment or house rental that accepts my 2 cats and cocker spaniel? That's what is eating at me. I'm also worried about fully financing my education. The waiting for schools to contact me stresses me out but not as much as these other things.

 

[JMJRDH1]

Considering what we are going to become, I would say that the stress was appropriately high!!

 

[Vapor1122]

It wasn't that bad, really. The interviews/acceptances will come when they come; there was plenty to keep me busy in the meantime.