Pre-vet help.

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I'm going into equine medicine after I finish school, but I'm still looking for my undergraduate school. I'd like a small school, fewer than 5,000 students if possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?</p>

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<p>You have to look at private schools, basically no big name schools.</p>

<p>There are thousands to choose from. Start with collegeboard’s tool.</p>

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<p>Instead of focusing on the size of the school, it’s much more important that you concentrate on the quality of the undergraduate academic preparation that you’ll receive. Vet school is very tough to get into. Your best bet is to take a close look at undergraduate preveterinary programs at the universities that have vet schools. Virtually all of these schools will offer very strong preveterinary preparation and advising. Here’s a list:</p>

<p>[AAVMC</a> | Students & Admissions | Schools & Colleges](<a href=“http://www.aavmc.org/students_admissions/vet_schools.htm]AAVMC”>http://www.aavmc.org/students_admissions/vet_schools.htm)</p>

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<p>To highlight the above post -
pre-vet ADVISING is probably the most crucial thing a college can provide that will benefit you. Don’t worry about coursework as the differences won’t make much difference.</p>

<p>After advising, I’d imagine the next most important thing would be actually being able to get you some animal experience. While I’m sure that shadowing a big animal vet is something that would work, consider how difficult that might be to line that up (I honestly have no idea). A school with a significant amount of animal science going on is probably going to offer a lot more opportunities than one that doesn’t. Unfortunately for you, that’s most likely to be your big land grant universities - as evidenced by the list of schools that have vet schools. Certainly you don’t have to limit yourself to only those schools, but it’s possible 5000 students might not be a reasonable goal.</p>

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<p>You might also want to look into going to a school that’s within a state that has a vet school. Vet schools have limited seats for out-of-state applicants. You have a much higher chance of being accepted to vet school if you apply to a vet school of a state you’re a resident of. I’m not saying it’s impossible to be accepted as an out-of-state seat, since many colleges have contracts with others, but your chances of being accepted are higher going the other route. This could be dated information I’m giving you, but I’m sure someone will correct me. </p>

<p>This doesn’t answer any questions, but I found it amusing!
“Don’t go into veterinary medicine because “I don’t like people”. Very few dogs and cats show up by themselves with a blank check taped to their collar.”</p>

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<p>^This is good advice. Here is a chart summarizing the admissions statistics for non-residents at each of the 28 U.S. vet schools for the last admissions cycle: <a href=“http://home.itsafish.com/vetschools.jpg[/url]”>http://home.itsafish.com/vetschools.jpg&lt;/a&gt; As you’ll note, “at large” applicants (i.e., students who are not residents of the state in which the vet school that they’re applying to is located or are from a state which does not have a contract for seats with that particular vet school) are at a severe disadvantage in the admissions process.</p>