What do you do when...

God I want to believe you. I respect your determination. Good luck with vet school x

I don't want to rub you or anyone else up the wrong way or anything - I really don't - but it isn't that easy to just forget worrries you might have about going to uni.

I mean I totally agree with some of what you're saying: that the op is a good applicant, that interviewers will see right through it etc etc

The only thing I have to say is it really isn't that easy to overlook issues such as clubbing.

I got turned down for a mixture of reasons and I don't see the point in reapplying due to social reasons.

90% of my year ignores me, and I swear I have done nothing wrong apart from getting good grades and being naturally quiet. Now I am in sixth year I have given up trying to fit in because I don't want to be friends with people who were so unsubstantiatedly horrible to me. I am not overexaggerating - apart from about five people everyone has said something horrible to me. And I'm not being oversensitive: I am talking things like "go kill yourself cos nobody cares", "if you weren't such a loser people would talk to you" and entire lessons spent with every member of that class giving me a head to toe commentary of what is wrong with me.

And it isn't only school.

For obvious reasons, I am worried about going to uni. I want(ed) to be a vet with all my heart. If I don't fit in at uni, it will be like I don't fit in anywhere so I am scared to find out the outcome. I just want you to understand that it really isn't that simple.

x

I've had these thoughts before. I'm a crammer, i don't really listen in lesson, i wait until deadlines are just around the corner before starting coursework etc. etc. but i know that i'm going to have to change this for uni, i know you can't get away with that at vet school. Like someone said, if you really do enjoy what you're learning about and love the course, you'll put the effort in.

And one of my worries is the opposite to yours, i absolutely love clubbing, being out, being with other people, i'm never in, i'm just hoping i learn to say no tonights out at uni so it doesn't get in the way of my work!

If you want it enough, you'll make it work! x

I decided I wanted to be a vet when I was 15. For 3 years I've driven myself with tunnel vision to giving myself the best chance possible of getting into vet school. This involved getting 20+ weeks of work experience, good grades at A level (got AAAA at AS, predicted AAA at A2) and 'trying' to keep up with current issues like btb ect.. I didn't get into vet school this year, and I took the last rejection pretty well, thinking 'It's ok. I'll take a gap year, re-apply next year, and since I'll already have my AAA at A level, and more work experience and knowledge, I'm bound to get in.'

The thing is, as I'm starting to think about what I want to do for my gap year, I'm also wondering whether I should reapply to vet school. I mean, who am I kidding? As an applicant, I tick almost all the boxes, but as a person, I'm lazy, have a short attention span, short term memory and I like having a lot of free time. How am I going to get through vet school if I know already that it's very unlikely I'm going to be studying every night, probably going to be quite antisocial (not a big fan of going clubbing), probably not going to be listening much in lectures and going to forget everything I've learned after each summer holiday? Will I really be able to cope with the stress?

Has anyone else had similar doubts and still gotten in? What do you do to get yourself back on track?

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I think what I'm feeling atm is something similar to pre-wedding jitters (is that the right term? o.O you know, when the bride or groom suddenly want to run away at the altar??). I'm trying to take the easy option out, when what I REALLY want is to be a vet. I guess my situation's not as uncommon as I thought... I'm just going to have to be brave and keep going...