<p>Interested in finding out which school is more recommended to go to if I'm interested in eventually attending veterinary school? I'm in a community college and will be transferring with an associate's degree in biology. I'm considering reputation, availability of study abroad, their science department, how challenging their programs are, etc.</p>
<p>Considering University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts: Amherst, Central Connecticut University, and Clark University.</p>
<p>Go to the most affordable one. Vet school is expensive.</p>
<p>You are instate for UMass, right? </p>
<p>Will your parents pay the high OOS costs for UConn or CCU? If not, take them off your list.</p>
<p>Are you going to apply to all the MA publics? If not, why not?</p>
<p>What is your budget? </p>
<p>Vet school is very expensive…go where you can afford.</p>
<p>go where you can afford. go where you will earn the higher GPA. prestige of your alma mater doesn’t matter to the vet school.</p>
<p>I am only applying to UMass Amherst. I have automatic acceptance through UMass and also a 33% tuition reduction but I absolutely hate the school.</p>
<p>Sorry, meant to say through Masstransfer.</p>
<p>UC Davis. They an an animal science undergrad major and the only University of California that has a vet school.</p>
<p>^ UC Davis will cost the OP a good amount of money - $23K for OOS premium PLUS whatever they compute the EFC to be.</p>
<p>Go to a school that gives the best combination of affordable, opportunity to excel as an undergrad (veterinary school admission is extremely competitive, more so than medical school), and opportunity to concurrently work with animals - in that order. That most likely means IS public school, but depends on what aid each school offers. jke is correct, prestige doesn’t matter - they will look at your transcript and your activities. </p>
<p>Yes UC Davis will be $23K+ tuition, as would Texas A&M for out of state (and presumably NC State and MSU, the other obvious choices) but aren’t Clark and UConn more expensive and less prestigious than the obvious 4 (Davis/A&M/NC State/MSU). Am assuming Cornell and the obvious pre-Vet elites are out.</p>
<p>what about West Chester University? They have an animal lab, AIR. Here’s a list of many recommended pre-vet programs: </p>
<p><a href=“http://prevetadvising.com/index.php/resources/30-recommended-pre-veterinary-colleges-and-universities”>http://prevetadvising.com/index.php/resources/30-recommended-pre-veterinary-colleges-and-universities</a></p>
<p>UC Davis is an excellent school, however paying OOS rates both for undergrad and vet school will be ridiculously expensive. Go instate.</p>