I recommend going straight into grad school. I think if I had taken some time off I would have had a difficult time studying and focusing. I actually completed my requirements for grad school wthin 3 years instead of 4. I needed to shave a year off of the school loans :). I love the fact that I have more expeience than most of my colleagues that are my age and graduated later in life. There are a few people I work with that are in there mid 20's and are just now applying- to vet school-so they won't graduate until they are at least 30. Then if an internship and residency are done they won't be out until there mid 30's.

I do hate the debt but reality is that unless you are wealthy or your parents had a nice college fund for you, a loan is the only way to reach your goal. Out of a class of 120 about 90% of us had to take out loans. You cannot work during vet. school-it is an 8-5 job for 3 years then 4th year it is a 5-6 am to whatever time you finish job depending on your rotation (or you are on call for 24 hrs and then have to go to school all day-yuk!). Many weekends are spent in labs-(anatomy/parasitology/physiology etc...). Most graduate these days with over 100,000$ in debt and vets don't make $hit :(.

I say get it all over with at once-don't wait.

Took my MAT last Monday....score was 68 out of a possible 100..now am waiting for the real paperwork to get in.

I also recently got accepted to the University of Tennessee, and will be interviewing at Clemson!

The latest on my grad school search:

rejected at:
Berkeley
Columbia

wait-listed at:
Stanford

accepted with full funding at:
UNC-Chapel Hill
UT-Austin

So now I am making visits and trying to decide where to go! woo!

My company paid for mine.........:D

And I left a few months after I finished.

MAT results
 

I got my official MAT scores and was pleasantly surprised after seeing "real numbers" and percentiles.

Got 93% and 94% respectively on the percentiles!


Was so excited about that!

Hooray!

I just wanted to let ya'll know that I will be attending ...in the fall for School Counseling! :)

congrats AUDeltaGam! great school!

-marissa

I will be attending the University of Texas at Austin next year!! :) :)

I'm *hopefully* going to Graduate school...but i still have AT LEAST 2 years left til i get my bachelors.

If all goes well, i'll either be attending Michigan State or University of Illinois- Chicago. But i'm prayin for MSU.

I dont think i have to take any tests though, i'm going to be attending the Forensic Science program there...so hopefully i wont have to take any tests.

Grad school-starting next January at FSU, hopefully! I'm taking the GRE right after the summer. I decided to combine both my undergrad degree's (Russian & East European Studies/Latin American and Caribbean Studies) and just do International Affairs.

I got into my grad program! :) I start next month.

I just got into mine too! I start month after next. Whew! I got nervous for a second. Now I just hope that I'm making right decision of not considering other schools.

If you going for an advanced degree, most schools require at least the general GRE. I doubt that MSU would require no testing at all.

You didn't get into a binding contract because of it? Wow. I'm not sure I would even have the guts to do that, but kudos I guess.

If anyone can tell me what type of grad school to go to, I'd appreciate it. I can't decide.

-Rudey