Stop detracting the achievements of those accepted to vet school.

People get rejected. Actually the overwhelming majority of people get rejected. Some people may go 2, 3, 4 cycles without an acceptance and some never at all. Thats just the reality. There seems to be this growing trend in this sub and similar ones to make a lot of excuses (this isn’t the best word but I couldn’t come up with anything better) for rejection when discussing rejection and/or adequate qualifications for acceptance (I’ve never seen anyone be anything but congratulatory on acceptance posts).

What do I mean? I see a ton of comments along the lines of “well my GPA is lower because I had to work full time in undergrad” or “vet school acceptance only favors the privileged.” Those concepts definitely hold weight, in part, and it is an imperfect system. But, there are many people who don’t come from wealth and didn’t have some kind of unfair advantage in circumstances who busted their ass to get the GPA, test scores, vet hours, experiences, and references to get an acceptance.

This field already lacks respect and imposter syndrome is rampant. It doesn’t help to have your peers insinuating that you didn’t deserve an acceptance.