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Originally Posted by thaowey
390 Q 660 [i know...reallyyyy bad]
experiences:
-300 hrs and counting veterinary, total, which includes:
- shadowing at various small animal hospitals
- volunteering at the UF SAH ZooMed dept. [and a bit of Int. Med & ICU]
- 3 months "internship"/volunteer at a SAH in South Africa
- 3 weeks at Rondevlei Nature Reserve in S. Africa working on methods for re-introduction of mammals
- animal experience was <100 hrs, just doing kennel work, but then stopped
- helped a grad student with his research on mating patterns of horseshoe crabs [mostly changing waters in petri dishes and going out to the field]
- planning on volunteering at a therapeutic horse riding later on this summer...
Extracurriculars:
- NaviGators Club: help international students feel welcome to the university and show them the ropes and all that jazz
- pre-vet club during freshman & sophomore yr
- Relay for Life [2004-2008]
- Special Olympics volunteer
- vacation bible school leader |
Just a little something I noticed that may be a weak point as well. You only have 100 hours doing kennel work but then you stopped... you also have pre-vet club for only freshman and sophomore year.
Why did you quit these things? Both of these things could have been great on an application but then you stopped doing them... I would say it looks worse to start something then stop soon after, and you have that with multiple important things. Is there anything that you have done for all four years so you can say that you stuck with a program or club or anything. Btw high school counts for very little to the admissions committee unless you did something really out of the ordinary or something that was just fantastical.
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Originally Posted by thaowey
i know...my GPA is uber sh!tty. i mostly get B's and B-'s, and have 3 C's [Bio 1, 2, & Microbio] but i'm taking 18 credits this summer [shoot me] to try to boost it any last way that i can.
also, i'm re-taking GRE later in June, and possibly one last time in July. i'm counting on my GRE score to save me and so i know i have to be in like...the 100th percentile! gahhh
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Your grades are honestly very weak for some of the vet schools you plan on applying too. For example your in state UF is extremely hard to get into (I was looking to go there) the average gpa was around a 3.5. If you look at the stats from that school most people with below a 3.18 did not get an interview. It is extremely hard to raise your GRE score as letitsnow mentioned. Unless you can raise your gpa to around a 3.2ish then you would be in better shape. Re-take some classes, get all As in summer school, do whatever possible to raise your gpa.
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Originally Posted by thaowey
and i honestly don't understand how ppl have thousandssss of hours of experience...i wasn't sure of this in the beginning of college or how early i should've started preparing, and so now i'm volunteering like 15 hrs/week, and hoping i'll be able to have a "good enough" number by the end of it all
any thought/comments would be helpful :]
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I did not start accumulating hours until I got to college and I ended up with a few thousand. It is do-able. I worked 40 hours a week every summer for different vets and I did around 10-20 hours a week while in school. You say you graduate in december? Can you take that last semester and 40-50 hours a week? That should put you in a lot better position for the next cycle. At least during the interview you can say yes I work 50 hours a week at paws and horses vet clinic. Its better then nothing
I hope you get in but do not be too upset if you don't. Do file reviews and take the next year to work on all your weaknesses! You will get in if you are persistent and improve your application every year!
Good luck!