Reasons for my absence..

Hey all! So my blog was left abandoned for a long while. There are reasons for it. The last I posted I was getting ready to go to my Ross University interview. I never posted any more because I wanted to wait and see how things unfolded before writing about my experiences.

I found my interviewer to be somewhat rude and condescending. Those issues aside he told me that I probably would not be accepted. In retrospect, I shouldn't have taken his comments to heart because he was not on the admissions committee.

I was told that my decision could be expected between 3 and 6 weeks. After not hearing anything for 6 weeks I started to move on with my plans. I decided to move to Kentucky. If I wasn't going to get into vet school, I wanted to not be in upstate NY any longer. Eight weeks after my interview I signed a lease for an apartment in Lexington.

11 weeks after my interview I received a conditional acceptance into Ross. The acceptance was based on the condition that I passed a course that I was taking. (Obviously, I passed the course)

But here I am in Lexington, KY. The whole thing turned me off from Ross... but maybe I'll apply again later in my life.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the big interview day. I think I'm ready. I've thought about my strengths, weaknesses, and most importantly how I'm going to handle the PETA question. Obviously in an informal setting I would completely blast the PETA organization and the students who have recently been supporting and fueling their nonsense. However, I suppose in a professional interview I should be tactful, but make it clear that I have no tolerance towards PETA's actions.
I'm not really all that nervous. The interview can't hurt me. My grades hurt my application without a doubt, but the interview can really only help at this point.

Let sleeping dogs lay

I received an e-mail from Auburn yesterday. I kind of wish that they had just left well enough alone, but on the other hand Auburn was really great through out the whole process of keeping applicants informed. Why should that be any different just because they rejected me already? The beginning of the email is below.

"By this time you will have received notification that you were not being offered an interview for admission to Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. This year we received over 600 applications from non-resident students for our 10-15 positions, in fact you did make the first cut in our process from over 600 to approximately 250 candidates, so the fact that you were not offered does not mean that you are not a good candidate. Hopefully you will receive an offer from your home state or another college of veterinary medicine to which you have applied. However, should you apply for the fall of 2010 we sincerely hope that you will again consider Auburn University."

I'm not sure that knowing that I was better than 350 applicants really makes me feel better. Letting go of this dream would be easier if I could believe I was the least qualified applicant.

In other news, my interview with Ross is March 18th.

Interview

Finally a small piece of good news! I have an interview at Ross University. I'm pretty sure almost all of their applicants get interviews, but still it feels nice to not get a flat out rejection.
Will keep you posted when I get more details!

Auburn

My rejection from Auburn came today. It was short and sweet. I appreciate letters that have statistics. This year Auburn had 622 out of state applications. According to their website, last year they accepted only 15 non-resident/non-contracted students. I just can't help but think that with numbers like that, I can't feel too bad about not getting in. It does reinforce the reality that I'll probably never be accepted, however.

Kansas State

5 minutes after writing my last post I got a rejection email from Kansas. It was nothing special and definitely did not make up for the fact that I've known for 2 months that I was not one of the applicants picked for an interview. I suppose it's better that they finally responded though.

Getting into vet school....

Hello! I've been trying to follow my dream of becoming a vet and I'm finding that getting into vet school is like fighting a monkey for a mango. I decided to start a blog about it for other people who are in my situation. Here is my situation thus far.

• Freshman year of college I was told I would never get into vet school so give up.
• Gave up
• After graduating from college I got a job as an equine vet assistant
• After about a year I decided I wanted to try getting into vet school
• Started back to school part time to finish the few requirements that I had left
• Applied to 8 vet schools (Cornell, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Auburn, Prince Edward Island, Edinburgh, and Colorado)
  
• The rejections rolled in.

The rejection letters are really amazing. Illinois was the first rejection letter. It was a pretty standard "your grades suck, why did you waste our time and your money? Don't do it again" kind of letter. Kansas state never even bothered rejecting me, I just heard from other people that applied that they had received interview letters. Cornell sent an email. Colorado had the single nicest rejection letter that I've ever seen. Props to Colorado for not being jerks!

Rejections are still expected from Auburn and Edinburgh.

In the mean time I started to think about other options. In doing some research I figured out that Ross University in St. Kitts would be a great school to go to. I recently applied there and will probably focus my energy towards getting in there at this point. It might take a few applications, but I'm having a really hard time giving the mango up to the monkey.