As a person who has met with Yasmin before, I'd say get some questions in line. What can I do to become a competitive applicant in the future? Hopefully this can apply to both the enrichment program as well as actually applying to UCD vet school. Did you have a letter of recommendation? Ask how that helped or hurt your application. Was your essay compelling? How could you improve your writing style or content? Stuff like that.
I'll tell you, I felt that Yasmin was terribly unprepared for my file review after applying to vet school. She had to take the time out of our meeting to read my essay and reference letters. It was awkward, sitting there twiddling my thumbs while she silently read. She also has had mixed reviews for how "encouraging" she is. She has apparently outright told people that they will never get into vet school and low and behold, they do. She was encouraging for me, but I think it might be partly because I teared up a little 😳.
As for the enrichment program, it does seem to be geared towards giving underprivilaged pre-vets a chance to get some good experience. However, I know for a fact that one of the past vet aide club presidents was selected for this program when they already got first pick every quarter for VMTH Internships 🙄. Of course, I shouldn't presume that people are not disadvantaged when they actually might be....
Take advantage of this opportunity, she will have a good insight for how to be the best applicant you can be.
ETA: Whoops, sorry I didn't notice that your meeting was today! Hope it went well, and maybe this could help someone else.
