So I’m a junior in high school and my goal is to become an equine veterinarian, but I’m kinda torn between these two majors. On one hand, with animal science you can have a pre veterinary concentration which evidently is the most obvious route to go because I’m sure it takes care of most of your requirements for vet school, but on the CPP website it states that animal health science major get more “hands on” experience w doing surgeries, x rays, etc. I feel like this is something I’d be more interested in, but I’m worried it won’t be the right track to become a vet you know?
Also I’m aware that they’re both impacted, but does anyone know if one is reputably easier to get into than the other one? Thanks guys!
I went to the Ag department open house and was told they admitted only 32 into the Animal Health Science major last year - that is the one to become a certified Vet Tech upon graduation. Not sure how many they accept for Pre-Vet. Did you go to that open house? Look up Poly View on the website, they will probably do it next year too.
Those are who were offered admissions - she said about 100 get offers and about 32 enroll. But thank you for that. She said it is pretty consistent year to year so I guess in general they know that about that many will accept the offer?
@kittenfarts Thank you so much for posting that link! I’ve been looking for that PDF forever now 
@bunnyhugger Oh, I see. I also just realized you guys are talking about animal health science and not animal science! Makes sense.
@heckarad No problem! It took me a while to find one with stats from last year.