<p>It just hit me. The chances of me getting into North Carolina State, or University of Wisconsin Madison are quite obviously slim to none. I'm a junior currently and I do no sports, no clubs [my school doesn't have any besides student council which I would never do] and my grades suck :D . For the first two years the first semester have been c's \ b's and then I got them up to b's\a's. This year first semester is the same and I'm hoping to get them up again. I am taking all advanced classes [except for math] and I have been since freshman year. Still though the only thing that is going for me is that I do community service, but probably not enough. <em>head desk</em> </p>
<p>I really want to go to either of those colleges, and I want to major in zoology/animal science. Those would be for pre-vet, because I really want to be a veterinarian and there is nothing else I want to do in life D: 'cept maybe a mortician... heh.
I also have to take SAT's and ACT's but I heard they are hard. so I prolly will fail. I like to think of myself as an intelligent individual who just happen to fall into the depths of laziness in high school. I will probably just have to go to CCRI [I'm in Rhode Island]. THEY PROBABLY WON'T EVEN ACCEPT ME D; -excuse the pity -</p>
<p>ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO BOOST THAT CHANCE?</p>
<p>The grades you described probably won’t get you into those two colleges–or most other big-name colleges–but that doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t get into college. You really need to work with your parents and your guidance counselor to generate an appropriate list of colleges for you, including a couple of reach schools. There really are appropriate colleges.</p>
<p>Your bigger problem in the long run may be that getting into veterinary school is WAY more competitive than getting into NC State. I’d strongly encourage you to research now what it will take to fulfill that dream.</p>
<p>Hmm… would it even help if I got straight A’s next semester, and straight A’s senior year? Plus getting a good score on SAT’s / ACT’s ?</p>
<p><a href=“http://apa.wisc.edu/CDS_USNews/CDS_2011.pdf[/url]”>http://apa.wisc.edu/CDS_USNews/CDS_2011.pdf</a>
^Read the above link. It’s the Common Data Set for University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It will give you an idea of what University of Wisconsin-Madison looks for in their applicants.</p>
<p>Rigor, Class Rank, and Academic GPA are very important.</p>
<p>Percent in top tenth of high school graduating class 55.6
Percent in top quarter of high school graduating class 93.0
Percent in top half of high school graduating class 99.3 </p>
<p>Percent who had GPA of 3.75 and higher 52.7
Percent who had GPA between 3.50 and 3.74 25.7
Percent who had GPA between 3.25 and 3.49 12.9
Percent who had GPA between 3.00 and 3.24 5.8
Percent who had GPA between 2.50 and 2.99 2.7
Percent who had GPA between 2.0 and 2.49 .2 </p>
<p>Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA:<br>
3.69</p>
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<p>Keep working hard. Hopefully, you’re getting strong grades in your science and math classes if you’re planning on a science based major in college. Stop thinking that you only want to go to one of those two colleges. Open your mind and realize that there are numerous colleges in the US that provide excellent educations.</p>
<p>Admission’s people consider GPA through the end of 11th grade when reviewing applications. Senior year grades are used to show that the student is maintaining GPA and rigor. In other words, you need a solid commulative GPA at the end of your junior year.</p>
<p>Certainly, it would help. Would it be enough for Wisconsin or NC State, out of state? I don’t know. </p>
<p>The difficulty with senior-year grades is that even the first-semester grades won’t be available to colleges until after the application deadlines for most schools. They’ll be included in the mid-year report your school sends to colleges, and colleges will have them in time to consider them for regular decision applicants, but the spring of senior year is entirely too late.</p>
<p>Considering you have listed state colleges, 90%, if not 100%, of their decisions will be based on numbers. ECs matter for s*** when it comes to state admissions.</p>
<p>Since your goal is Veterinary School, your focus should be on finding a college/university that is affordable for you to attend where you can get the very best grades possible, and where you can complete the Pre-Vet courses. It is not necessary to earn a degree in Zoology or Animal Science to get into Vet school. The Pre-Vet program is almost the same as a Pre-Med or Pre-Dent program which means you can get those classes almost anywhere.</p>
<p>If there is no Vet School in your state, there is one in a nearby state that serves as your “home state” Vet School. Find out which university has this program, and then get in touch with their admissions office to learn what you need to do in order to be a good candidate for admission.</p>
<p>The reality of things are is you need to find motivation, you have an idea of what you want but seek for more a specific motivation and inspire yourself to get more amazing grades. Not everyone is motivated to do amazing but it shows when your grades improve over time.
Umm, hope is not lost, ask/check for programs that these schools might have that could get you into the schools, New York has HEOP/EOP, it would help you sooo much!
And if even if you don’t get in, I highly suggest just trying to transfer, take all those general classes you have to take freshmen year in whatever university you attend, so you can go to one of your top schools and already be good.
Make yourself flexible towards your mission, even that’s where you would like to go, that’s where you would like to go, so try!!</p>
<p>honestly, going to community college for 2 years is a solid course of action that i’m surprised isn’t recommended more often on here. if youre motivated to do so, you’ll kick ass and get A’s. (the work is relatively easy…) </p>
<p>you can simultaneously volunteer in an animal shelter/hopsital to strengthen your app and if you study up for the SAT’s now, which 4 year schools will still weigh seriously when you try to transfer down the line, you’ll definitely be a strong candidate. schools have a measure of respect for cases like this, students that were not directed in high school but prove themselves at a later stage.</p>
<p>though i could totally be wrong and am open to debate on the subject</p>
<p>Dear Axisxpowers,</p>
<p>I’m wondering if you shouldn’t cast your net a little more broadly again? Have you considered Kansas State University? It has one of the finest pre-vet and vet programs in the U.S. The people in the department are extremely friendly and extremely easy to approach by e-mail or phone or in person - at least they were when my daughter was thinking about trying to become a vet a couple of years ago and started talking with them. </p>
<p>K-State admissions are a breeze. That said, there’s some extremely serious brainpower among the student body, too (see consider.k-state.edu/awards/): in total number of Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater and Udall scholars, K-State ranks 6th behind only Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton and Duke!</p>
<p>Do you know what kind of animals you think you might be interested in specializing in? That’s a question you should ask of all the universities you are considering, evidently - at least that’s what the K-State people told our daughter - because different universities have different emphases (i.e. some emphasize ‘large animals’ - cattle, sheep, horses; some emphasize ‘small animals’ - domesticated pets; some have programs in ‘non-domesticated animals’, as well).</p>
<p>My family knows about K-State because my parents taught there and my husband attended there and his father taught there, too. The town is great, the people are all nice, KSU is a true gem that flies under the radar - but not in the world of vet med.</p>
<p>Maybe you’ve done this already, but why don’t you have a look at their website and contact the admissions office to see what the admission requirements will be?</p>
<p>BTW, my daughter no longer wants to be a vet - now it’s history or chemistry or maybe something else. But it was fun looking at places when she did.</p>
<p>Good luck with your search.</p>