<p>Hi! My goal is to get into veterinary school eventually. Does anyone have a clue what would be the best move for my undergraduate studies? Should I go to a university with a Veterinary dept? Is it best to take animal science or biology? Or are there specific programs for pre-vet?</p>
<p>Also what would be good schools for whatever you recommend..?
THANK YOU!</p>
<p>the American Veterinary Assoc has a list of programs on their website</p>
<p>I think it is better to go to an undergrad university with a vet school.</p>
<p>check out the prereq courses at Cornell and elsewhere to see what you have to have for vet school.</p>
<p>I think animal science is better but vet school is like med school. You can major in anything as long as you have the prereqs.</p>
<p>Like med school, physical science majors actually tend to do better in admissions than majors in the biological sciences, so really any science major could (theoretically) be fine provided you took the required classes. </p>
<p>Pre-vet is generally not a major, but many schools offer it as a track in which you have advisors that help you pick classes and help you get into vet school. </p>
<p>Animal science and zoology are popular pre-vet majors, but I personally think a biology major is a little better because it's a lot easier to find, and a broad grounding in biology would probably be more helpful in the long run. </p>
<p>It is very helpful to attend a university with a vet school for several reasons. First, the university will be very familiar with vet school admissions, and advising should be good. Second, plenty of appropriate pre-vet courses should be offered. Most importantly, vet schools require several hundred hours of veterinary work in college (a very important factor in admissions), so going to a university with a vet school would obviously be beneficial. </p>
<p>Cornell and UC Davis are the huge pre-vet magnets, but many other schools like Tufts, Duke, Michigan, UT Austin, Maryland, etc. also have very high vet school placement rates. </p>
<p>Many colleges, like Cornell and Purdue, allow you to apply to the DVM program as an undergraduate (BS/DVM, sort of), so that's something you might want to look for.</p>
<p>Most big midwest state universities--U of Minnesota, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Colorado State, U of Wisconsin, Montana State, North and South Dakota State, have excellent pre-vet programs, especially with the animal science/equine studies/microbiology type majors. Many also have vet schools-iowa, minnesota, colorado, kansas</p>
<p>I am a pre-vet/animal science and zoology major at NDSU and I love it, its a great school for what I'm interested in because it has a very strong agriculture program and awesome Department of veterinary science and microbiology...</p>
<p>i plan to apply to kansas state when i've graduated because there's a nice reciprocity agreement with ND residents..so check into that, depending on what state you are a resident in might determine what vet school you would have the best chance to get in. Otherwise it gets pretty competitive--the University of Minnesota accepted 95 students for this years incoming first year vet student class out of 785 applicants...</p>