I am a freshman at Mississippi State's vet school, and I have quite a few Clemson grads in my class because we are South Carolina's contract school. I personally did not attend, but I know that they got a lot of hands-on animal training through whatever programs they followed. I know it was really competitive between the pre-vets at Clemson to get the few contract spots here, and the majority of SC students chosen are indeed Clemson grads, I've noticed....
sorry not much help in actual facts!
Side note, one of my lab partners was an Animal Science major (I believe, but could be wrong...) at Clemson and she even had a class involved with helping a cow give birth.