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I did it! Yaaaaay! (Got my letter today, in Dallas):soexcited: So excited!

Probably will be where I'm going, especially since I was waitlisted at Auburn.

Congrats HopefulAg and villawaffer!
 
Congrats everyone! I got my letter too! What a relief! Now I can focus on all of the prep for vet school. Anyone know where we can get a rabies vaccine?
 
Still nothing 🙁

One of my professors asked the asst. dean when letters would be coming out and she said the week before Spring Break, but several people are obviously already getting them. Even one of my best friends (not the same one from the last post) got her letter....

Lets hope this isn't a bad sign for me...
 
Perhaps they sent it to your home address instead of your temporary one?
 
I'm IN! I got my letter yesterday (in Stillwater, OK). Congratulations to everyone who has gotten letters! I'm not sure if I will be accepting yet, since I'm interviewing with UF over spring break, but the chances are good.

Any chance someone could show me around the town sometime in April? I may go down to look at places to live and stuff, but I know nothing about CS. 😳
 
Grats! You know you wanna do A&M over UF. Closer to home too, right? 😉
Plus if you like football, you should go to A&M. Awesome atmosphere. However, if you like winning football, you should probably stick with UF. A&M has an impressive way of shooting itself in the foot, even when the gun is empty.


I'd volunteer to show you around, but I'm a few hours away lol.
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WHOOP! I got in! I cannot express how happy I am...I screamed so loud when I got my letter. For those of you still looking for yours : my letter was dated February 24th but I didn't see it till Sunday night because I was out of town. Also I live in College Station. Good luck to everyone who hasn't heard and don't give up, this is my second time to apply
and for many others their third time and we've got our golden ticket 🙂
 
I talked to Yolanda today on the phone and she said that all decision letters have been sent out. Unfortunately, I have not received mine (IN COLLEGE STATION!), but she can't tell me over the phone because of confidentiality issues. She said she could re-send it if I don't get it in the next few days. Anyone else not received their IS A&M letter?
 
Came in the mail today. Rejected again.
 
Sorry rtoddo09. I know how it sucks to be rejected by your IS, especially when you consider that *generally* it's easier to gain IS acceptance than OOS. You're in good company, although I'm highly biased as a TAMU rejectee w/o an interview.

I know you're feeling defeated but don't throw in the towel. You've still got two more schools and an alternate position. This game isn't over yet!
 
Sorry to hear that rottodo09. Rejection SUCKS and I feel your pain! I will keep my fingers crossed for you to get into one of your other 3 schools (maybe you will get a call from Kansas here soon!). Best of Luck to you!! :xf::luck:
 
Came in the mail today. Rejected again.
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I'm so sorry rtoddo09. I guess everything happens for a reason. Don't give up! OkSU is a great school (I have a slight bias since I'm here right now as an undergrad 😀) and I'm sure KSU will have a lot of people letting them know soon about their decisions. Keep your chin up!
 
Maybe someone can answer this for me. Does anyone know if any of the alternates actually make it in or how many alternates there are?
 
I have a friend who got in as the number 7 alternate 2 years ago. I think it probably just depends from year to year though. I don't even know how many alternates they normally put on the list...
 
Came in the mail today. Rejected again.
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That sucks, quite a lot. I should know lol.

Well you're on the waitlist at Kansas right? You're at least one step closer as I'll be turning them down. We should be able to just give people our spots though lol.
 
HopefulAg said:
We should be able to just give people our spots though lol.
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Sounds great. I'll tell Marcina Ritter to be expecting your phone call? :laugh: LOL

Thanks for the thought though! And thanks everybody for all the support. Now to get my life together... haha 😕
 
rtoddo09 said:
I have a friend who got in as the number 7 alternate 2 years ago. I think it probably just depends from year to year though. I don't even know how many alternates they normally put on the list...
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Thanks!
 
I feel you pain! I got rejected by a&m, too.
 
I'm so sorry Light Reaver and akina. One of my good friends from high school also applied and I figured she was a shoo in to get in, but she got rejected today. She was a very good applicant too. I just don't understand how they pick people...... 🙁 I feel very blessed and pray that things will work out for the both of you.
 
Any chance someone could show me around the town sometime in April? I may go down to look at places to live and stuff, but I know nothing about CS. 😳
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Depending on when you come I might be able to show you around. PM your schedule and I will let you know.

Maybe someone can answer this for me. Does anyone know if any of the alternates actually make it in or how many alternates there are?
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I think their are about 20 alternates and I know that 2 years ago they called up to number nine because I was only a few places away from that 🙁 Also I think the last person was called up towards the end of summer so even after end of April you may still get the call
 
Maybe someone can answer this for me. Does anyone know if any of the alternates actually make it in or how many alternates there are?
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Last year they called up to #15. I know this cause I was number #16. Luckily I didn't have to do the wait list this year.
 
chasec said:
Last year they called up to #15. I know this cause I was number #16. Luckily I didn't have to do the wait list this year.
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You have given me a ray of hope!

May I ask what changed from last year?
 
Do any of y'all already live in CS? I might be able to rent a town home from someone I know, but if that falls through I really need recommendations for where to look for apartments. I have a med-size dog and 2 cats that I REALLY want to come to vet school with me, so animal friendly places would be good. Any suggestions?
 
I currently live in Campus View Apartments. I have a puppy who will grow to be 40-50 pounds. I'm not sure their policy on cats, but I think the limit on dogs is no more than 2 with a combined weight limit of 100 pounds.

Also, the pet deposit depends on age of the animals. Less than a year old is $600 with $300 refundable and over a year I think is $400 with $200 refundable.

There are probably cheaper places to live that I might suggest over where I live. Mine is on the more expensive end because I was in a crunch and needed somewhere to live pronto. It might be good to check into Willowick. They usually have pretty good deals.

You might also look into Aggieland Apartment Finders. Their service is free and they get commission if you sign somewhere that they show you. I used Curtis and he was very helpful.

Hope this helps!
 
Campus View, as stated above, and their sister complex Meadows Point (I don't know that they're actually 'sister complex's' but if IIRC, they look exactly the same).

Other than that, I can't really think of any apartment that allows animals. And I've been to a lot of them on the hunt.


A word of warning though, and rtoddo can tell you if I'm wrong or not, but I'd be weary of Campus View. This is like, their 5th time to change their name. They used to be Stadium View, then The Treehouse, then Campus View. Before that they were something else (during my Freshman year, 05) but I can't recall. Anyhow usually changing your name so often is an attempt to shake off a bad reputation, usually stemming from bad management.
 
Congrats to everyone who has gotten in to A&M!! I got my letter last Friday!! 🙂 so excited to start in the fall!

I noted that a few people are looking for place to live. Myself and a friend who got in from out of state are looking into getting a 3b/3b duplex or house with a yard. I have a dog too, so that's not really a problem!

Let me know if anyone needs any help or info. I've lived in CS for a few years!


Congrats again!!
 
Um, I still haven't received a letter. 😕 I got my interview invite via snail mail back in December, so they should have my address correct in their system. I think I'll call Monday and ask them to resend it if I don't receive it tomorrow. So frustrating!
 
Vet Engineer said:
Do any of y'all already live in CS? I might be able to rent a town home from someone I know, but if that falls through I really need recommendations for where to look for apartments. I have a med-size dog and 2 cats that I REALLY want to come to vet school with me, so animal friendly places would be good. Any suggestions?
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I live in college station and I have looked for places to live with animals I would recommend looking at a few websites or getting in contact with some companies that facilitate finding places.

Websites
collegestationrent
hotpads with zipcode of 77845 plugged in for finders keepers
aggie search is through A&M and it helps find places/roommates

Companies
twin city properties has good deals on houses/duplexes but they aren't always that nice
finder keepers are really nice
united realty has good deals on houses/duplexes but they have a pet limit of 2 pets...so if you aren't too upset about pretending that you have one cat 🙄 they could work
equity has good deals too

In general if you are willing to live in Bryan instead of College Station you can get cheaper rent. I recommend looking at google maps street view to get an idea of the neighborhood. I am not sure how much you looked around but the two cities basically run right into each other so isn't really like living in a different city.

Most of the places I have talked to have a pet deposit per pet of 300 to 200$ with some amount non-refundable usually 100 up to half of the deposit. This is why I often don't declare exact numbers of what I have or count animals in cages 😳. So far I haven't gotten in trouble and I have lived here for several years in a few different places under different companies.

You can also look at the Eagle classifieds which is the local newspaper and look at the college station craigslist.

If you are worried about living in a specific neighborhood I could probably look into it...just PM me.
 
Thanks for all of the tips! I went to undergrad in Dallas and all of the apartments around here require hefty non-refundable deposits, even for cats! I would prefer to avoid that and picking a place with bad management.
 
I noted that a few people are looking for place to live. Myself and a friend who got in from out of state are looking into getting a 3b/3b duplex or house with a yard. I have a dog too, so that's not really a problem!
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I am actually looking for a potential place to live. I currently live in a 3bed/3bath house so that is basically what I'm looking for in CS. I have a dog too. I was planning on rooming with a good friend of mine, but somehow she didn't get in, which completely shocked me.

My only problem is that I'm in a weird situation b/c I'm interviewing with UF on the 20th and I won't hear from them until April, so I won't know for sure if I'm going to A&M until very close to the April 15th deadline. Lame. 🙁
 
I'm kind of curious about something - I don't seem to notice the level of excitement in this thread that I've seen in some of the other school threads... Are people excited about going to A&M? Or it is more, "ho hum this is my in-state school and it's cheap"?

I got less of a sense of the students at A&M when I visited than any other school and I just wanted to find out what the overall attitude was - if it's someplace people love, if it's family-like or competetive, if people would have chosen to go there even if they had other options to choose from?

I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, it wasn't meant in a bad way. I'm just confused and stressed out about where I'm going to go. 🙄 I liked A&M, especially TIPS (wow!) and it's my frontrunner right now, but it's also the school that's farthest from my family so I just want to make absolutely sure....

Also, if I'm not from Texas, will I feel like an outsider?

Thanks!!
 
I think it's just that there's so few of us. All the other schools get 20 page long threads with several members following that school. We only get a couple.

But as for the program outside this forum, yes people are excited to be there. They do socials, study groups, clubs, and all that good stuff. It's just not a commonly thought about university on this forum since you have to fill out the TMDSAS, which is exactly like the VMCAS, as you know. So unless you're IS, why go through the hassle? A&M doesn't accept enough OOS people to bother with a whole new application that's exactly the same as the one you just filled out IMO.


And yah, OOSers will fit right in. We don't care where you're from. And if you can cook well and scream loud at football games, then you're a shoo-in.

Oh and to answer your specific questions:
if it's someplace people love
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Yes. I don't know if the vet students will have the same fanaticism as the undergrads, but in general people really like A&M.

if it's family-like or competetive
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Family like is my impression. I don't get a competitive vibe from the vet students, and it certainly wasn't there in undergrad.

if people would have chosen to go there even if they had other options to choose from?
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Well I'll most likely be choosing A&M over Edinburgh, and certainly picking it over Kansas and Ohio (my other two choices; though Ohio I'm only on the waitlist, high up on it though). It does come down to money, but A&M and Edinburgh are kind of on extremes. Edinburgh is ~$240,000 where as A&M is ~$140,000, and that's before interest. Also there's some money issues with getting to Edinburgh itself as well as the issue of if my visa is rejected, then I'm royally ****ed and would have to apply AGAIN next cycle. I figured if nothing else I could do a residency at Edinburgh, and that lasts about as long as vet school any how. So while I'd prefer to go to Edinburgh, because it's Edinburgh, I'll be perfectly happy with A&M as well.




Now my question: does A&M have a roommate matching program for the vet students? I really don't want to live by myself, but I also don't want to live with non-vet student roommates.
 
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There is a pretty consistent flow of people looking for a roommate/looking for people to take over their lease. Right now there is a 2VM looking for a roommate in fact.

--> If you would like to live with vet school roommates or are just looking for a place to live, please PM me your contact info and what you are looking for and I will happily send out an email to all the Texas A&M vet students for you.

Congratulations to future Texas A&M Vet students!! You guys have worked tremendously hard to get here. Please contact me if you have any questions or just want to say hello 😀
 
livvie said:
I'm kind of curious about something - I don't seem to notice the level of excitement in this thread that I've seen in some of the other school threads... Are people excited about going to A&M? Or it is more, "ho hum this is my in-state school and it's cheap"?

I got less of a sense of the students at A&M when I visited than any other school and I just wanted to find out what the overall attitude was - if it's someplace people love, if it's family-like or competetive, if people would have chosen to go there even if they had other options to choose from?

I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, it wasn't meant in a bad way. I'm just confused and stressed out about where I'm going to go. 🙄 I liked A&M, especially TIPS (wow!) and it's my frontrunner right now, but it's also the school that's farthest from my family so I just want to make absolutely sure....

Also, if I'm not from Texas, will I feel like an outsider?

Thanks!!
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In addition to everything HopefulAg said (which I completely agree with)...

You have NO IDEA how excited I am to be going to A&M!!! (Ok, I know you really do, but that's how I feel about it, haha). I was crying/laughing/shaking when I got my letter and had to plug in my phone because I talked it to death calling everyone. Despite the fact that, at this moment, it's my ONLY choice (unless I wanted to take my chances waitlisted at Auburn) it's always been my FIRST choice, so I'm stoked. I didn't go there for undergrad, but went to a similar, if smaller, college town, and have been to College Station a few times, and really enjoyed it. And I'm just excited to meet everyone, regardless of where they're from...if you have stories about somewhere OTHER than Texas, even better! Haha, I've only been in Texas since I was, uh, 6, with the exception of my four years at Auburn, soo...yeah. But, if it's anything like what I've heard/seen, you shouldn't have any problems being from OOS.

Hope to see you all in August! Yay! (I'm still giddy 😀)
 
I have to second the previous comment. I am RIDICULOUSLY excited about A&M. I have met some really awesome vets who graduated from A&M who would totally change your opinion of the students. They wish they could go back to school! As far as being treated differently because you're from OOS, I didn't become an IS until I moved down here for undergrad and I don't know a soul currently at A&M's vet school, so I know how you feel. You won't be alone, but still it's Texas! Southern hospitality reigns, but you might be called a Yankee from time to time. I know from personal experience!
 
First off, congrats to everyone who's been accepted to A&M!! It's an awesome school with a lot of pretty amazing people.

Just wanted to let everyone who had housing concerns know that the mentor committee is trying to put together a housing list for you all of current vet students looking for roommates as well as recommendations for apartments, duplexes, etc. I'm not sure when they will be sending that out though. Also, as someone listed before, the facebook group is a good place to start looking for housing if you're already getting antsy.

For you OOS folks, I wouldn't really worry about not fitting in. I had a hard time trying to figure out who was OOS and who was not in my class unless I asked them where they were from. Everyone will become one big (hopefully happy) family, so it doesn't really matter where you came from.

Anyway, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
 
Thanks for all the reassurance! 😀 Definitely good to hear!
 
If this helps...

I'm currently a grad student and I take one of my classes with the first year vet students (physiology). From what I've noticed, they have their groups that they sit with in classes (guilty of sitting with one of these), but they often migrate between classes to go talk to others about whats going on in other classes and study groups etc. It is competitive (like anything professional, really), but they seem to really help each other out and work together on a lot of things. I am a little bit jealous sometimes of their support group and wish we had something similar set up in our grad program. They are separated into smaller groups for labs (usually) and even smaller groups for their faculty mentors which allows you to get to know other people a little better than the ones you sit with. Also, you have student mentors from the class above you that are always willing to help out and usually have information packets from the first year classes that would be beneficial for you to have, especially during the time of transition.

Like HopefulAg said, there are also a number of student organizations which bring even a more diverse group than you might normally sit with and get this... they are interested in the same things as you! LOL

Hope you get more excited as the time draws near! Like any vet school, its a lot of work and people get stressed out, but it doesn't keep them from smiling or cracking jokes once in a while... although not usually on test days... thats my job! 😀
 
First of all, HUGE CONGRATS to all of y'all who got in this year! :clap:

I'll be applying to A&M this coming app cycle, so I was hoping to get some input on a couple things from you experienced folks. First of all, 100% of my vet experience (~2000 hours) is with cats only, and I obviously have limited time to diversify. Do you guys think it would be better to spend ~6 weeks at another SA clinic that sees dogs, or do something totally different like LA/exotic/etc, or some combination? I was leaning towards LA, but I would feel stupid applying with no dog experience. 🙁 (I have owned dogs and volunteered at shelters -- just no stuff with a vet.)

Also I have the option of taking my last pre-reqs either fall or spring. Do you think they would rather see my fall grades for stuff like Physics II and non-science pre-reqs, or for upper division Bio stuff (and save the pre-reqs for spring)? My grades are good so far, if that's relevant.

I would really appreciate any input you guys have. Pre-vet advising in nonexistent at my school, so I have lots of love for you SNDers! 🙂
 
ATX00 said:
First of all, HUGE CONGRATS to all of y'all who got in this year! :clap:

I'll be applying to A&M this coming app cycle, so I was hoping to get some input on a couple things from you experienced folks. First of all, 100% of my vet experience (~2000 hours) is with cats only, and I obviously have limited time to diversify. Do you guys think it would be better to spend ~6 weeks at another SA clinic that sees dogs, or do something totally different like LA/exotic/etc, or some combination? I was leaning towards LA, but I would feel stupid applying with no dog experience. 🙁 (I have owned dogs and volunteered at shelters -- just no stuff with a vet.)

Also I have the option of taking my last pre-reqs either fall or spring. Do you think they would rather see my fall grades for stuff like Physics II and non-science pre-reqs, or for upper division Bio stuff (and save the pre-reqs for spring)? My grades are good so far, if that's relevant.

I would really appreciate any input you guys have. Pre-vet advising in nonexistent at my school, so I have lots of love for you SNDers! 🙂
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To be honest, I would go with the LA/exotic/whatever if you can get it. A SA practice that included dogs, while being slightly more diverse in the animals it sees, will be run about the same as an all-feline practice, I would imagine. LA, especially if you can work with food animals, is an entirely different aspect of the industry. If possible, in the summer or on weekends, I would still see about volunteering/shadowing if you have some spare time, just to say you have SOME experience with dogs, but I got the impression that A&M liked the diversity.

As far as pre-reqs go...I don't think that it will matter, just what is more comfortable to you. Just know that most schools expect you to send your fall transcripts in by January and will probably review them with your application before they decide, so if you need to boost your GPA, you could take your easier classes, then. Of course, that leaves all of your hard classes for your last semester which, especially if you get in, has its own repercussions...see here:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=707143

Hope that helps 🙂 Good luck! :luck:
 
I'd do the upper level classes in the Fall if your GPA can take it.

Also try finding work at a LA clinic. You've enough SA work and the LA would be more valuable than more SA: dog edition. Plus both postmortems I had said "get more large animal experience"
 
Thanks for the input, guys! 🙂
 
Do we need a deposit? It doesn't say anywhere in the packet, nor on the checklist, that we need one. However, it seems odd that they don't require one, as most vet schools seem to ask for one. Also, A&M loves deposits.
 
I was wondering about that too. I sent in all the information within a week of getting my acceptance and I haven't heard anything back either. Anyone know why we have to send them another set of transcripts?
 
Haven't a clue. I called and asked if I need to send my A&M transcripts in and they said yes. 🙄

Surely they can pull that up on the computer? If not, the registrar's office is literally just down the road.
 
I sent in my acceptance a little over a week ago, and I haven't heard anything, either. Maybe they'll send it with the financial info..? Also, does anyone know if A&M does an open house like some of the other school? just curious, since I am actually within visiting distance! And congrats on your decision, HopefulAg!
 
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