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I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me how competitive it is to get into Western University or UC Davis's program (what you have heard or personal experience)? What kind of scores for the GREs, GPA, etc.? I am about to graduate from UCLA in marine bio, my GPA is mediocre :( , I have tons of vet experience, and research. Also, I'm about to take the GREs, so what should I be scoring to offset the GPA problem? Thanks for your guys's advice!

Western is not very competitive. Their freshmen class GPA is 3.2 and GRE is probably 50% tile. UC Davis is about 3.6 and 75%. You can always go to graduate school to raise your GPA or do really well on GRE. You can also consider going oversea. I know a student from UCLA who got into UC Davis despite having only 500 hours of volunteer work. The average admitted student has 3200 hours. This kid has great GPA 3.9 from UCLA majored in marine biology. Good luck to you.

I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me how competitive it is to get into Western University or UC Davis's program (what you have heard or personal experience)? What kind of scores for the GREs, GPA, etc.? I am about to graduate from UCLA in marine bio, my GPA is mediocre :( , I have tons of vet experience, and research. Also, I'm about to take the GREs, so what should I be scoring to offset the GPA problem? Thanks for your guys's advice!
You can go oversea school or raise your GPA through grad school and reapply. You can study hard for GRE and make up for low GPA. I think GRE has 2400 total and if you can get 2300 that would help.

I have a friend who got accepted to UC Davis with less than 500 animal hours but he has a 3.9 GPA from UCLA. Western is not competitive. The average GPA is 3.2 and UC Davis is about 3.6 and 70+ GRE.

You can go oversea school or raise your GPA through grad school and reapply. You can study hard for GRE and make up for low GPA. I think GRE has 2400 total and if you can get 2300 that would help.

I have a friend who got accepted to UC Davis with less than 500 animal hours but he has a 3.9 GPA from UCLA. Western is not competitive. The average GPA is 3.2 and UC Davis is about 3.6 and 70+ GRE.


Actually Western is quite competitive. They just do not base their decision solely on GPA/GRE. If you qualify with your GPA/GRE scores you are put on an even playing field for the interview. I know quite a few people that got into Davis but did not get into/or were waitlisted at Western so I would not say it is not competitive. Also Western does not have a residency preference so all applicants are equal. This means you are competing evenly with all applicants not just the California applicants. Davis supposedly eased up on there GRE/GPA reqs but they are still very competitive (about 25% of RESIDENTS will get in).

I am in my third year at Western now so if you have any questions let me know.

Chris

I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me how competitive it is to get into Western University or UC Davis's program (what you have heard or personal experience)? What kind of scores for the GREs, GPA, etc.? I am about to graduate from UCLA in marine bio, my GPA is mediocre :( , I have tons of vet experience, and research. Also, I'm about to take the GREs, so what should I be scoring to offset the GPA problem? Thanks for your guys's advice!


IMHO, Western is not that competitive...yet. I also can't say that I would personally take a $50K/year gamble on a school that hasn't graduated a class or acheived accreditation at this time.

IMHO, Western is not that competitive...yet. I also can't say that I would personally take a $50K/year gamble on a school that hasn't graduated a class or acheived accreditation at this time.
Western is accredited and if you go there you are considered a graduate of an accredited school. They say "provisional" only because they need to graduate a class (my class in fact) and trust me that is not going to be a problem.