<p>^ Actually, the demand for vets exceeds the supply in some areas of practice. This is particularly so for large animal/food animal medicine, and several vet schools are actively recruiting qualified students who want to specialize in this area. Remember, though, that the emphasis is on QUALIFIED. In other words, you aren’t going to get into vet school simply by saying that you want to be a large animal/food animal vet if you don’t have the academic/animal experience qualifications to back it up. There are also some serious negatives to this sort of practice (e.g., do you really want to be delivering calves in the middle of the night on a ranch in the middle of nowhere?). The number of new vets who are graduated each year is limited by the fact that there are only 28 vet schools in the U.S. and classes are generally small (usually between 75-125 students). Building a new vet school also represents a huge capital investment for a university and the cost doesn’t stop there – vet schools are also very expensive to run. In short, they’re not cash cows (no pun intended) for the schools that have them, so there isn’t a significant incentive to build new vet schools. As I recall, the mean annual salary for vets in private practice is in the 80k range – you don’t go into veterinary medicine for the money. Of course, some vets make less (e.g., vets that work for the government) and some make much more (e.g., equine surgeons). If becoming a vet is what your child really wants, I wouldn’t be discouraged – it does take a lot of very hard work and preparation, but approximately 3,000 students are admitted to vet school every year.</p>