Early Entry Vet school

DadTwoGirls
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 01:04:15 +0000

momocarly:

…has a 4.0 so far through 3 years undergrad and 3+ years of veterinary school.

This is impressive.

When my daughter started her DVM program, at the welcome ceremony, multiple speakers emphasized that “C’s get degrees”. She hasn’t had any C’s yet, but a few B’s involved a lot of hard work and a lot of prep for the final to pull a C up to be a B. She has gotten stronger over her 2 years so far of the DVM program. I think that a lot of hard work is a big part of the reason. She feels that working in a large animal drop in clinic has helped her grades – some of the issues that they discuss in class or that show up on exams are things that she has seen in the clinic.

Audrey511:

the vet I am shadowing is now training me to be a vet tech.

This is good.

Audrey511:

I’ll be drawing blood, restraining animals, doing fecals, expressing anal glands, etc.

This reminds me of why I was a math major instead. The willingness to dive into this stuff is just as important as academic strength.

Audrey511:

I’m in my fourth year of biology … but have only taken chemistry besides that.

Did you take or are you about to take any physics? I am pretty sure that physics was one of the courses that my daughter was required to take before applying to at least some DVM programs (not that I could explain why it would be needed).

momocarly:

They really liked he had people experience as well as animal experience and knew what he was getting into academically, emotionally and financially.

This was my daughter’s experience as well. Every animal comes with a human, and you need to deal with both. Having both large and small animal experience helped my daughter. She has the determination that is needed, has shown the ability to deal with the messy parts (including some animal deaths), and we have figured out how to get her to graduation without an unpleasant amount of debt. She also understands that while DVMs get a decent salary, it is not at a level that offsets the many years of hard work that is needed to get there.

@Audrey511 To me it looks like you are doing very well. I cannot predict whether you will get into an early entry program. However, if you stick with it and if you can find a way to afford the required education it sounds to me like you have a good chance to be “Dr Audrey” in a few years.