Animal Experience VMCAS?

[chyactnate]

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I went to an agricutural high school so I had gotten a lot of experience with animals there such as large animal, horses, exotics, lab animal, grooming, showing, etc. So I was just wondering should I put the different species of animals I worked with under different experiences? There is not enough space to put all the experiences under just one. Thanks for all the help 🙂

 

[that redhead]

I think this depends on the other animal experiences that you have. If you don't have anything else, you can break your time in school up into species or class, for example. If you have other (more valuable) experiences, I would do your best to give them their own space and cram your high school experiences into one spot. If you think about it, a lot of things you did were probably very similar across species - handling, feeding, etc. Again, this depends on what you already have and if these experiences are "more valuable"/better quality.

For me personally, I grouped things generally by where I worked with the animals. Even though I've worked with a bunch of different species at the lab animal facility I'm at now, I lumped them together and mentioned the species in my blurb as well as what I did (feeding, handling, injections, health checks, etc) for all of them.

 

[BlacKAT33]

i agree with what that redhead said.

If you need more space and can't fit it all together then break it apart to w/e you'd like (species, work place). I put my lab animal separate because i had a lot more experiences to list specifically for them. Then i grouped cow/horse together because those experience were similar. And I put sheep as its own because i took a course specifically with them and had a lot of experience specific to them.

w/e you choose will be fine. as long as you fit all the info on there it doesnt matter which spot or in what order, they will see it all the same and even put it into the right category (vet vs. animal) if they feel you put it in the wrong place

 

[chyactnate]

OKay thanks for the advice!!! I think I am just going to break it up into a couple (cows, pigs, sheep will be in one because the experiences are the same, then horses, and then small animal stuff)