Different "personalities" of schools?

[eventualeventer]

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The mention on another thread about Cornell being thought of as cut-throat got me thinking . . .

Do different vet schools have different "personalities"? I know each class will have students who are friendly, competitive, etc., but are there consistent or noticeable differences in the social atmospheres of different schools?

 

[DVMorBust]

I'm not really sure who would be unbiased enough to verify one way or the other...

 

[HopefulAg]

"Reputations" might be a better word.

 

[parietal]

Well, if we're going for reputations... I didn't apply to Missouri because I heard from several sources that they were looking for very traditional students (early 20s, strong overall GPA, etc.) and accepted few people with non-traditional backgrounds.

I honestly have no idea if it's true or not (any more or less than the Cornell cut-throat thing), but it was enough to scare me away. I'm actually pretty curious to hear from someone who actually goes there to see if there's anything to it.

 

[sumstorm]

Our faculty/admissions say every class has a distinct personality to it. I think we are going for/obtaining a reputation for diversity (non-trads, URMs, sex, etc.)

 

[ckgilabert]

i just wanted to say that my friend was VERY non-traditional and got in(she was in her late 30's with a felony).


i didn't apply to some schools b/c i didnt think i'd get in. but i did apply to colorado...as one of those (if i got into this one, i'd crap myself)...and i didn't crap myself but i did cry. LOL.


anyway, my point was to say that even though most schools 'normally' accept a certain type of person....try to be the abnormal. LOL. if that makes sense!

 

[Pandacinny]

Of course this is a totally unbiased opinion, but if I could describe VMRCVM's personality in one word, that word would be "awesome."

The only real "reputation" type thing that I've ever heard is about Penn students being a little pretentious. I don't think that matches up to anyone I've met from UPenn - I would say that there are probably some pretentious jerks (and nice people, and fun people, and weird people and etc) from every school.