<p>I am going to be a high school senior in the fall and up until recently I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life career wise. I had considered psychology but recently I have found a renewed interest in becoming a veterinarian. In the past couple of weeks I have searched the web looking at vet schools and learning more about what it takes to become a vet. I learned that pre-veterinary medicine is not a true major.(Although I have found it listed as such on some colleges on collegeboard.com) What major would be best to study if I want to be a vet and be accepted into veterinary school? I was also wondering if anyone could tell me any colleges that would be good to attend for pre-vet and why? I am located in northern New Jersey and would like to stay in the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania area at least for pre-vet; for vet school I would be willing to look a little farther although I know there are vet schools in both Pennsylvania and New York. I would really appreciate some help with this as I need to start looking at colleges and filling out applications. I was also wondering how much of being a vet is math related because I have seen that it's recommended that you take a bunch of math courses and I thought it would mostly just be sciences. Could anyone tell me what courses would be important for me to take? I realize vet schools may differ on their requirements but there must be some similar classes.</p>
<p>Rutgers has a very good animal science program. If you go to a school that does not have animal science, biology is another major that will get you most vet school prereqs.</p>
<p>I live and go to school in California, so I’m not sure of the schools in your area, but “pre-veterinary science” is a sub major of “Animal Science,” and schools DO have this as an undergrad major. If you can’t find a school in your area that has an Animal Science major, as nj2011mom already stated, Biology is one of your best bets. Make sure you get a lot of outside animal/veterinary experience to go with it though. Math is important… most vet schools only require up to college algebra, or trigonometry. Some require pre-calc or calculus, and almost all of them require statistics. Science actually has a lot of math in it, as you will learn when you get into your undergrad science courses. Good luck!</p>