Veterinary School

Pre-Med & Medical School Careers in Medicine
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<p>I'm about to begin my undergrad career, and right now i'm pretty stuck between going premed and pre-vet. I would imagine that many of the requirements would overlap, and that it wouldn't be too much of a problem for me to go through my freshman year undecided. However, i wanted to know if anybody knew some of the differences between the requirements that i should take into account when making my schedule.</p>

<p>As i understand it, the acceptance % nationwide is lower for vet school than med school. I would think this is due to the small number of veterinary schools in America. Are veterinary school applicants still less qualified than those applying to med school?</p>

<p>Also, will i have an advantage being a male? It seems veterinary schools generally have a much larger number of females than males.</p>

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<p>The AAVMC site is good place to start: <a href="http://aavmc.org/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://aavmc.org/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Pre-vet students submit the GRE or MCAT, depending on the specific institution.</p>

<p>Pre-vet requirements are similar to pre-med requirements. Quoted below are the Oregon State University Vet School requirements.

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Chemistry
A series of chemistry courses including a sequence of inorganic chemistry with laboratories and organic chemistry sufficient to meet requirements for an
upper division biochemistry course or sequence.</p>

<p>Zoology or biology A one-year sequence plus at least six additional quarter or 4 semester units of upper division biological science courses with at least one laboratory (physiology, cell biology, microbiology or additional biochemistry).</p>

<p>Biochemistry A course or course sequence in an upper division biochemistry.</p>

<p>Nutrition One quarter or one semester of a general animal nutrition course.</p>

<p>Genetics One semester or quarter of an upper division genetics course</p>

<p>Physics One semester or two quarters of college level physics for science majors.
Sufficient to meet the pre-requisites for sufficient to meet the pre-requisites for inorganic chemistry and physics.

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