Tiger sibling dilema - passion vs practicality

abudhabi-mama
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:20:59 +0000

Perhaps your daughter would be interested in Moorpark College with it’s Exotic Animal Training and Management Program - the graduates can then go on to the UC Davis Vet program. It is a long way around perhaps and it is not easy to get in to. She could start with taking CC classes at Moorpark college and then go on from there. My D. does specifically does not want to be a vet - but she wants to work with Big Cats in zoos and wild life parks. She filled all her required college courses in Florida, where we live, and applied for the first time last year. It is unfortunately a lottery system - and despite her 3.9 GPA she did not get in. She applied again for this year (they only admit one class a year of 52 students in August.) She used the year to finish her Psychology degree at UCF (she graduates this summer) and is an intern at a wild life rescue park. Sometimes there is no direct way to go from here to there. The pressure on kids to decide on one thing or another at the end of high school is ridicules - let her explore more of her options and take the opinions of your other kids for what they are; pesky, like all siblings.