<p>Hi I'm a senior in high with a final GPA of 3.5. 2030 SAT tons of leadeships in extracuriculars and volunteer work, play AAU basketball and 2 AP tests junior year (3 more this year).
I've applied to UVM ,UNH, American University, Udel, UConn, UMass Amherst,URI, and Castleton State.
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My question is that since these are not Ivies or any other ivy league caliber schools, when I apply to vet school (with all required courses and internships) why would they accept me over a kid from Harvard or Duke or Middlebury?!
Do I have a chance???</p>
<p>Vet schools look for undergrad GPA, GRE score and animal experience. You also need to have the correct pre-req courses for that particular school. You are probably better off at a state school that has a pre-vet advisor and animal science classes to assist you with these pre-reqs and internships than a ‘name’ school like Harvard or Middlebury.</p>
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<p>When D2 attend the Tufts Vet summer camp last year, they had a session from an adcom of the Vet school who basically echoed what njmom stated above. However, one factor that is even more important to them (and it appears many other vet schools) is state of residency. Most of these programs have a large percentage of slots reserved for in-state applicants.</p>
<p>Both of the above posts give good advice. You are going to get the best preveterinary preparation at the universities that have the vet schools and those, with a few exceptions (Cornell, Tufts and the University of Pennsylvania) are state universities. My daughter is entering the vet school at Kansas State University next year and I can tell you from her experience that the five most important factors for successful admission to vet school are: overall gpa, science gpa, GRE scores, animal related work experience and/or research, and state of residence. It is true that it is harder to get admitted to vet school than it is to get into medical school. This is a function of both the academic quality of the applicant pool (which is similar to the profile for medical school applicants) and the fact there are only 28 schools of veterinary medicine in the United States. Assuming that you are an otherwise qualified applicant, it is also true that your state of residence carries significant weight in the admissions process. Resident applicants and contract applicants (a contract applicant is an individual who is a resident of a state that does not have a vet school but which “contracts” for a few seats with a vet school in another state) have an advantage over “at large” applicants (i.e., everyone else) in the admissions process. As such, many “at large” applicants choose to move to the state where they want to attend vet school and work for a year or two to establish resident status before applying. None of the schools that you mention above have vet schools, although UConn, UMass, UDel and UVermont all have good animal science/prevet programs.</p>