<p>Hello, my girlfriend would like to be a vet and she is currently freaking out about "not being good enough" or whatever the hell else. I tried looking online for statistics of high school students that choose to follow the pre-vet track (statistics as in SAT, GPA, ECs, ect.) but I could not find any. If anyone has any information about what the "average" scores are I would greatly appreciate it and hopefully put her neuroticism at least slightly to rest.</p>
<p>Well I don’t have any statistics per se, but I assume that people going into pre-vet will have a challenging course load in high school. And also, not everyone that goes into Veterinarian School followed a pre-vet track. Veterinarian school require specific classes that you have to take. However, high school really doesn’t mean anything once you get to college. Vet schools will look at her college stats. But in all reality, anyone can become a Veterinarian if they are really passionate about it. Your girlfriend shouldn’t worry, everything will work out. I’m also trying to become a vet one day.</p>
<p>thank you very much, the problem with the Vet profession is that there are only 28 accredited Vet schools in America. She is not one to settle so she has her heart set on Cornell for both undergrad and grad. Her stats are not the strongest (roughly 3.6 unweighted GPA, SATs ~1900, few ECs, fewer leadership, barely any community service), in fact, they’re downright pitiful for Cornell standards. To make matters worse, she has absolutely no hook, she’s white, high-income, absolutely nothing that wont make the adcoms laugh and throw her app at the bottom of the pile.</p>
<p>Obviously I’m not very optimistic, so I was hoping statistics could ease both my mind and her incessant whining about not being good enough</p>
<p>You’re not going to find any “pre-vet” admission statistics because “pre-vet” is not a college major any more than “pre-law” or “pre-med.” If you want to view the admission statistics for veterinary school applicants, most vet schools have statistical profiles of their most recently admitted class available on the school’s website. As you noted, there are only 28 accredited colleges of veterinary medicine in the U.S. Successful applicants to vet school have the same, and in many cases better, academic profiles than applicants to medical school. Vet schools are generally going to look at five factors in making their admissions decisions: overall undergraduate gpa; undergraduate gpa in prerequisite science courses; gre scores; depth and breadth of animal related work experience or research; state of residence of the applicant (there is a strong bias at most vet schools for resident applicants). While the “quality” of the undergraduate institution that the applicant attended is a factor in borderline cases, it is much less important than you might think. That being said, there is a significant advantage to doing your undergraduate work at an institution that also has a vet school. Most vet schools are located at the “land grant” universities since veterinary medicine developed from the agricultural disciplines. The reason that applicants from the land grants have an advantage is that these institutions also tend to have the best undergraduate programs in animal science, which is the college major of choice for many vet school applicants, and the land grants have the programs and the facilities to offer their undergraduate students opportunities to obtain animal related work experience and/or engage in animal related research. Such institutions also have a lot experience in preparing and advising successful vet school applicants. Cornell is a land grant institution and has an excellent undergraduate program in animal science offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), but it certainly isn’t necessary for your girlfriend to attend Cornell in order to get into vet school. Unless her family is wealthy, she may want to think hard about attending Cornell for four years of undergraduate work and another four years for vet school – that would cost about $400,000 at current rates, and most vets don’t begin to make the kind of money that physicians do, even though both are medical doctors. If your girlfriend has other questions about vet school, feel free to pm me. My daughter is a successful applicant to vet school.</p>
<p>gbesq-interesting information. I’ve always heard it is harder to get into vet school than med school. Outside of Cornell where is the best vet school for someone interested in large animal veterinay-specifically dairy cows?</p>
<p>^The midwestern vet schools – Kansas State University, University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, Iowa State University and Purdue University all come to mind.</p>
<p>gbesq, outside of Cornell where might be the best vet schools for someone interested in small animal veterinary medicine?</p>
<p>Tufts has a very good reputation for small animal medicine.</p>
<p>Hi My daughter wants to be a vet. I understand she has to go-to a pre vet college first. we live in ct, does anyone have good advise on getting started. Does anyone recommend any colleges.</p>
<p>UConn has good undergraduate programs in both animal science and pathobiology. Either major would help to prepare your daughter for vet school. She should also begin to get experience working with as many different types of animals (large animal, small animal, farm animal, equine, etc.) as possible and in a variety of settings (farm, animal shelter, veterinarian’s office, etc.).</p>
<p>Sorry for the complaints, but personally, I hate U of Mussouri.
The lady on the phone was rude and doesnt shutup to listen.
They don’t refund when they realized I was an international applicant, I do admit I carelessly didnt see the eligibility, BUT they don’t even care to put it up on the residency page or the login page. I DONT EVEN HAVE any IMPRESSION OF SEEING IT.
SO **** U, U OF MISSOURI, I dont even care to go into your vet school, cause u gave me such a bad impression. What the hell is wrong as an international applicant? I am paying more than twice the tuition.</p>
<p>gbesq, DD worked in a Vet hospital during summer, with our local vet office, and now goes to an equine hospital on weekends. My question is do you have a prototype for the records you should keep? She typically keeps a log with the date, place, hours, and what she did or witnessed. However, this is her own making, and I’m worried she’s left out pieces of data which would be essential. eg. does a Vet or a tech need to sign off or should there be a description in words of what all that transpired, etc.</p>
<p>I’m applying to Colorado State University for their Animal Science major/pre-vet program 
so I’m super excited.</p>
<p>If you DO want your girlfriend to have some stats on undergrad admission to CSU’s vet school (which is ranked #3 or something close to there on the list, right behind Cornell & UC Davis)-here they are:</p>
<p>Profile of 2011 Entering Class as of August 31, 2011
Total Applications: 1,764</p>
<pre><code>Admitted: 138
Men: 32
Women: 106
Average GPA: 3.6
</code></pre>
<p>Average Experience</p>
<pre><code>* Veterinary Experience 1,000-2,000 hours
- Animal Experience 1,000-2,000 hours
Age
- Average: 25
- Median: 24
</code></pre>
<p>Average GRE Scores</p>
<pre><code>* Verbal: 514
- Quantitative: 649
- Analytic Writing: not required
Number of Times the Applicant Applied
- First: 85
- Second: 32
- Third: 12
- Fourth: 07
- More Than Four: 02
</code></pre>
<p>Highest Degree Held at Application</p>
<pre><code>* No Degree: 53
- Associate: 08
- Bachelor: 67
- Master: 10
- Doctoral: 0
Highest Degree Held at Matriculation
- No Degree: 06
- Associate: 03
- Bachelor: 107
- Master: 22
- Doctoral: 0
</code></pre>
<p>State # Applicants # Admitted
Colorado 268 75
W - Arizona 53 09
W - Hawaii 16 03
W - Montana 21 01
W - Nevada 23 02
W - New Mexico 19 03
W - North Dakota 21 01
W - Utah 21 0
W - Wyoming 13 04
Non-Sponsored 1309 40
TOTAL 1764 138</p>
<p>([Compare</a> Previous Admitted DVM Classes - College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences - Colorado State University](<a href=“http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/ns/students/future_students/dvm_statistics.aspx]Compare”>http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/ns/students/future_students/dvm_statistics.aspx))</p>
<p><a href=“Vet school stats (class of 2024) - Google Sheets”>Vet school stats (class of 2024) - Google Sheets;
This is a Spreadsheet that I have started. I am looking at different vet schools right now. There are some holes in the information. I couldn’t find some of the GPA’s and tuition. Anyway, this may help.
There’s a school, Ross university, in the Caribbean that has an average gpa of 3.2. Obviously there are drawbacks, like high tuition and out of the U.S. I will be applying there, in case I can’t get into any in the U.S.</p>
<p>Be careful with Ross, it is far more expensive than what you are seeing up front. Because they are on a Caribbean Island, some of the animal studies need to be done elsewhere and you pay for all that as well.</p>
<p>We learned (by accident) that at least one veterinary school (Oklahoma State) will not accept AP Biology credits for undergrads applying to their program. They want their students to have actually taken the class. I don’t know how widely this is known, but it would be a nasty shock for some, I imagine.</p>
<p>My daughter is having a hard time deciding between UMaine and Purdue for Pre-Vet/Animal Science. UMaine has given her a scholarship and honors college. Purdue would be full out of state tuition. We are from CT. She is afraid if she goes to UMaine it won’t look as good as Purdue does when it is time to apply to Vet school. As long as her grades are good and she has the experience do you think going to UMaine could hurt her in the long run?</p>
<p>Hi Airframe,</p>
<p>Does your daughter plan to apply to Purdue for vet school down the road? If she know which veterinary school/s she will apply for why not contact their admissions office and ask if they base any part of their decision on the undergrad school?</p>
<p>In my experience, they do not. My daughter attended a large state school and she’s in at her veterinary school of choice. </p>
<p>Wherever your daughter goes, she’ll need to keep a high GPA and begin getting work and volunteer experience. Document the hours.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thank you timeflew. She fosters animals now for the humane society and volunteers in their medical. She has a lot of documentation because she wants to use the hours to get her American Degree from the FFA. Both schools will give her hours with the animals which is nice. I know she would love to go out of the country for Vet school but I am sure would go anywhere.</p>
<p>Where you go as an undergrad should not matter as long as you satisfy the pre-vet requirements (courses), and assuming your other credentials (scores, work history) are good. Keep in mind that vet schools reserve the majority of their slots to instate residents (or neighboring states they have agreements with). It will be harder to get into an out of state vet school due to the limited availability of seats.</p>