Chance a Vermonter!

FuturePetVet
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:32:37 +0000

So I’m considering Vanderbilt…

Sophomore at a small school in rural VT,

90 gpa in 9th grade, 1 B in math and a B in art

92.59 gpa thus far (end of 1st semester)

School only offered 3 AP classes and plan to take 2/3 of them (taking a slower algebra, so I can’t take AP calc in time for graduation)

Taking all the honors classes offered except algebra 2 honors
Intended major: Animal Science, or Neuroscience/Cognitive/Psychology

Volunteer work: (shows determination and focus)

Global impact apprenticeship: co captain freshman year. Worked with several schools overseas to improve water quality, wildlife and other things, all while documenting and presenting a video to broadcast with te other schools participating. This got lots of press, was in the news paper just about every month in my town, and when I search my name, half the results are from the GIA program

Ambassadors and SADD group member.

Ran XC fresh year an sophomore.

Shadowed/assisted a horse vet over the summer: ~30 hrs

Worked on a dairy farm feeding calves twice a week : ~ 20 hrs

Green Mt Horse Association jumping crew, vet assistant/scribe and other various jobs: ~15 hrs

Shadowing/ assisting various vets every Saturday morning 9-12: 15 hrs

Strong essay writing skills.

Aunt is a Skidmore and Harvard alum, (an editor) so I have someone very credible to edit my essays.

Attended a Cornell Sports School running camp for a week ( not sure if that helps) and had a blast. Very familiar with campus, hours of research etc

Attending Adventures in Veterinary Medicine this summer, which they “look upon fondly” from what I’ve heard.

Mom is a special Ed teacher, don’t have a dad. Also, I’m adopted from Moldova and have dual citizenship.

I plan to continue all of my extracurricular activities except for GIA (that was a one time opportunity)

Can you also chance me for cornell (early decision), tufts, colby and boston college EA?I realise liberal arts colleges will not offer an animal science major, but neuroscience/psychology is very interesting, comes naturually to me and ties in very well to vet med w/ animal behavior.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thank