Thoughts/Recommendations between Purdue/UDel/UMass Amherst for aspiring future vet?

saillakeerie
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 13:47:11 +0000

Have you interacted with the pre-vet advisers at the 3 schools? My daughter is in vet school now. She didn’t apply to any of the schools you listed. But in our experience, the pre-vet advisers at the schools she saw varied greatly. Some didn’t appear to take the job seriously at all. Others very much more focused. Her undergrad school had a pre-vet adviser who seemed to view her job as getting as many kids into vet school as possible. Regularly reached out with updates of pre-reqs for vet schools across the country, animal experiences, etc. And some of the worst pre-vet advisers we saw were at colleges that had vet schools.

As others have noted, there are many different paths to vet school. So I wouldn’t really focus on one of them necessarily being best. Doing well in undergrad is critical. You will do better in something you enjoy rather than something you think will get you into vet school.

She likely will end up applying to a number of different vet schools. There are about 30 of them so researching them is very doable. And you likely can cross off certain ones that just won’t be of interest to her. You can then focus on the list of vet schools she likes and what they are looking for in terms of applicants.