Thank you for telling me about the water. That helped me focus more on the program than the campus a lot as swimming in warm oceans was a big bonus for UCSB but not anymore I guess haha
But a student could get veterinary experience outside of the university, right? I was referring to the actual locations of Davis and Santa Barbara, not the college (although I didn’t make that clear). I would imagine that most vet school attendees did not go to universities with excellent agricultural resources.
UCD’s vet school posts the UC campuses that students applied and were admitted from. For the class of 2019, 98 UCD students applied to UCD’s vet school and 25 were admitted, for an acceptance rate of right around 25%. Actually, the acceptance rates were better coming from Berkeley (54%), UCSD (55%), UCLA (42%), and Riverside (33%) than from UCD.
11 students applied from UCSB and 2 were admitted, which is an acceptance rate of about 18%. That’s lower that most of the other places but not that much lower than UCD - with margin of error included, probably within a ~3 percentage point range.
I guess my point is not that UCSB is a better place to go than UCD, but simply that if the OP chose to go to UCSB they could still get into a veterinary school since most vet students seem to have gone to an undergrad without a vet school or significant farm/agricultural schools attached. Especially since it seems that state residency is one of the most important factors.