Congrats on being accepted to all of those schools! That’s fantastic! I know of vets that have graduated from all of those undergrad schools. So don’t think that you’ll be choosing the wrong school. In terms of the best school for your daughter, I would recommend the undergrad that is also your daughter’s dream vet school. I think this helped me tremendously when I applied to vet schools. The undergrad people that were writing my letters of recommendation knew people involved with the vet school admissions process. I also had an understanding of what academic and campus life was like since I had already been there for 4 years.
Things that your daughter may want to consider for a vet school would be, but not limited to, school ranking, location and program style. School ranking generally does not matter too much but if your daughter is considering a residency, having a “better ranked” school may be slightly favorable. Location may be important to some people. Most of your daughters’ vet school classmates will practice in that general region of the US so she may already have a network of colleagues once she graduates. Some of the diseases/illnesses may be localized to certain parts of the US so experiences with that may be slightly different (ie. I’ve never seen a rattlesnake bite in my career but people in the South deal with it on a daily basis). And vet school programs have been changing in how information is presented. There has been a shift from just lectures to case-based learning so that the information and decision making process is more clinically relevant. Some people really benefit from this, some don’t care.
Finally, if your daughter is interested in specializing, don’t focus too much on it right now. Once she gets into her clinical rotations, she’ll be exposed to various different specialties. I’m fairly surprised by the number of colleagues that made a 180 change in their career path after clinics. Of course, if she has a particular specialty she is interested in, she can just double check to make sure that the vet school offers that specialty but most schools will have just about all of the specialties.
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