<p>I’m a senior in high school and an aspiring verterinarian ever since I took a Zoology class my junior year. I’ve looked at the two majors on the website and they look almost identical. I was just wondering what some of the main differences, if any, existed between the two;</p>
<p>Is one more impacted than the other? Would one prepare me for areas other than veterinary science? what are some of the grad school/career possibilities with each? Anything else you wanna share on either major (or anything in the college of envionrmental science, considering a lot of majors actually)</p>
<p>Even though I think my best shot is with Animal sciences just because I have a year of zoology on my transcript (as well as Marine Biology taken at a summer course down in UCSD), I really like all the majors offered in the college of Enviornmental Science (Hence me taking APES this year), so if there is any one you think is less impacted or really cool/useful, please let me know.</p>
<p>Thanks abunch :)</p>
<p>Animal Biology is more research-based than Animal Science, from what I’ve been told, and there are more disciplines of Animal Science than there are for Animal Biology (for example, with Animal Science, you can choose to focus on genetics, biochemistry, nutrition, captive and companion animals, livestock, poultry, etc. whereas with Animal Biology, you don’t get any of that). I don’t believe one is more impacted than the other.</p>
<p>Animal science has a more applied focus. For pre-vet, its advantage is that it might offer opportunities for hands-on experience with animals, including food animals, that you won’t get in an animal biology major. Since experience with animals is a factor in vet school admissions, it’s a major chosen by many pre-vet students. Also, pre-vet students who intend to work with food animals might have an edge for admission at some vet schools.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice guys! :)</p>
<p>Something I’ve also been interested in is Animal Science and Management, since if I am also very much interested in economics and business as well as environmental science and zoology.</p>
<p>But I am very concerned about declaring that as a major because my school ran out of room for AP Bio both my junior and senior year -_- I’m taking APES this year, had zoology last year and bio and chem honors in previous years and that summer course in marine bio at UCSD, but do you think my chances for a life/environmental science major would be severely hurt cause I didn’t get to take AP Bio in high school?</p>
<p>No, it won’t hurt your chances. In fact, ANS/ASM/ABI majors all have to take the introductory Bio sequence in college anyway, regardless if they took AP Bio or not, since the BIS 2ABC series cannot be satisfied with AP credits.</p>
<p>Wow! I actually didn’t know that o.O</p>
<p>That’s actually a bit of a relief, I thought I would somehow look like I really didn’t care about science that much or that I would look like a slacker if I didn’t have any AP’s in the core sciences other than AP Environmental Science (I have 5 AP’s in other areas and 2 honors courses both in sciences on top of summer colleges classes though)</p>
<p>But I also heard that the colleges of Environmental Sciences and Biology are the most competitive to get into at Davis though. So if they don’t take AP sciences, they what DO they look for?</p>
<p>It’s actually called the Colleges of Agricultural and Environmental Science. 
Anyway, [this</a> page](<a href=“http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/freshmen/fr_selection_process.cfm]this”>http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/freshmen/fr_selection_process.cfm) and [this</a> page](<a href=“http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/freshmen/fr_adm_reqt.cfm]this”>http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/admission/freshmen/fr_adm_reqt.cfm) explains what they look for. </p>
<p>And actually, I believe it depends on which major you want to go into. It’s harder to get into majors like Viticulture and Enology, Biotechnology, and Landscape Architecture (since they’re impacted) than it is to get into less impacted majors like the Animal Sciences. </p>
<p>Anyhow, even if you don’t get into the major you want (that is, you get accepted with an alternate major), you can always change your major during winter quarter once you come to UC Davis (and changing your major at UC Davis is a very easy process–just have your advisor sign a form, turn it into the dean’s office, and that’s it).</p>
<p>I know quite a few ANS majors who didn’t take AP classes in the core sciences back when they were in high school and they were still accepted.</p>
<p>OMG</p>
<p>I seriously feel soooooooo much better now 
UC Davis is my number one dream school for more reasons than i can count (I love biking, I’m vegetarian, I’m heavily involved with special ed communities and wanna help out at the mind institute…you get the idea)</p>
<p>I was always just worried because even though I did have a rigorous curriculum of sorts, I didn’t always get the classes I wanted to take in high school due to scheduling issues.</p>
<p>I feel so much better knowing what you just told me :D</p>
<p>It seems that you know alot about the animal sciences in particular; if it’s not too much, do you think you can tell me what your major is and how you are liking Davis so far? Hopefully I’ll see you there in person one day, but I am very excited/nervous for college and really want to see what I can do and learn more</p>
<p>You can also PM it to me if you wanna talk about more details or keep it private, just let me know and we can continue this discussion over messages</p>
<p>I’m an Animal Science major myself, which is why I know quite some things about the ANS major. :)</p>
<p>So if my daughter’s TAG was approved for Psychology in the College of Letter and Science, it won’t be a problem to switch the Animal Science major in College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, would it?</p>
<p>@ clangirl: nope. She just has to wait until winter quarter to change her major. 
It’s easy and just requires a few signatures.</p>