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Does anyone know how the dorm assignments work? Can we request to live with other vet students
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prevet1234 said:
Does anyone know how the dorm assignments work? Can we request to live with other vet students
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My good friend from college is a first year and told me it’s random assignment. She’s placed with like 6 other students ranging in all academic subjects at UCD and they’re all like 17-21~
 
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streptomyces said:
Is anyone familiar with the extramural studies requirement? If I'm correct, a total of 36 weeks are required (12 pre-clinical plus 24 clinical ems) by April of the final year. That comes down to about 3 months per year for graduate entry students during vacations. Is this an accurate estimate of what to expect?
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It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.
  • 2 weeks lambing that most people do over spring break 1st year
  • 2 weeks dairy
  • 2 weeks beef
  • 2 weeks small animals
  • 2 weeks equine
  • 2 weeks pigs
You can place out of some of those if you can prove enough experience. For instance I placed out of lambing because I had 5 years of small ruminant experience with my own herd of dairy goats.

Then, you have 25 weeks of clinical placements to do over 3rd and 4th year in addition to the core ones done at the UCD Vet Hospital. It is called CEMS (Clinical Extra-Mural Studies) This cannot start until after you pass an animal handling exam in the spring of 2nd year. This is equivalent to some of the clinicals that other schools do, we just get to do it at other practices, and places of our choice. As I mentioned, we also do core rotations at the Vet Hospital here during 4th year, but still have blocks of time to do some of our 25 weeks of CEMS. The CEMS requirements are

This all has to be done under a vet
  • 2 weeks Equine
  • 4 weeks Small Animal
  • 4 weeks Mixed Animal (farm animal)
  • 13 weeks free choice
    • Anything that you are interested in clinically
      • I did sheep embryo transfer
        • Poultry
        • Cattle scanning
        • etc...
    • You can also use those weeks to do
      • Research (there is a limit to the number of weeks, I can't recall the limit)
      • Laboratory (max 2 weeks)
      • Conferences (max 1 week)
  • 1 week of Abattoir that will be scheduled for you during final year
I hope that this helps.
 
courtweb0907 said:
Maybe a group of us can find a house and then we’ll all be vet students :/ not a fan of random assignment
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That is definitely doable, but easier to start in the dorms. You can move out of the dorms at any time, but finding housing from abroad is tough. Some of my classmates did it, but not easy, and lots of scams.
 
Good Morning (at least it's morning for me) - ok, why would some people have received a decision but my portal still says Decision Pending? Is this good? Bad? Why would all the decisions not come at the same time?
 
FarmGirl2 said:
It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.
  • 2 weeks lambing that most people do over spring break 1st year
  • 2 weeks dairy
  • 2 weeks beef
  • 2 weeks small animals
  • 2 weeks equine
  • 2 weeks pigs
You can place out of some of those if you can prove enough experience. For instance I placed out of lambing because I had 5 years of small ruminant experience with my own herd of dairy goats.

Then, you have 25 weeks of clinical placements to do over 3rd and 4th year in addition to the core ones done at the UCD Vet Hospital. It is called CEMS (Clinical Extra-Mural Studies) This cannot start until after you pass an animal handling exam in the spring of 2nd year. This is equivalent to some of the clinicals that other schools do, we just get to do it at other practices, and places of our choice. As I mentioned, we also do core rotations at the Vet Hospital here during 4th year, but still have blocks of time to do some of our 25 weeks of CEMS. The CEMS requirements are

This all has to be done under a vet
  • 2 weeks Equine
  • 4 weeks Small Animal
  • 4 weeks Mixed Animal (farm animal)
  • 13 weeks free choice
    • Anything that you are interested in clinically
      • I did sheep embryo transfer
        • Poultry
        • Cattle scanning
        • etc...
    • You can also use those weeks to do
      • Research (there is a limit to the number of weeks, I can't recall the limit)
      • Laboratory (max 2 weeks)
      • Conferences (max 1 week)
  • 1 week of Abattoir that will be scheduled for you during final year
I hope that this helps.
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This is very helpful, thank you so much!
 
dvminmyfuture said:
Good Morning (at least it's morning for me) - ok, why would some people have received a decision but my portal still says Decision Pending? Is this good? Bad? Why would all the decisions not come at the same time?
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At the interviews in January they said it would take them several weeks to get all the offers out. I'm not sure why, but it's how they do things.
 
FarmGirl2 said:
It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.
  • 2 weeks lambing that most people do over spring break 1st year
  • 2 weeks dairy
  • 2 weeks beef
  • 2 weeks small animals
  • 2 weeks equine
  • 2 weeks pigs
You can place out of some of those if you can prove enough experience. For instance I placed out of lambing because I had 5 years of small ruminant experience with my own herd of dairy goats.

Then, you have 25 weeks of clinical placements to do over 3rd and 4th year in addition to the core ones done at the UCD Vet Hospital. It is called CEMS (Clinical Extra-Mural Studies) This cannot start until after you pass an animal handling exam in the spring of 2nd year. This is equivalent to some of the clinicals that other schools do, we just get to do it at other practices, and places of our choice. As I mentioned, we also do core rotations at the Vet Hospital here during 4th year, but still have blocks of time to do some of our 25 weeks of CEMS. The CEMS requirements are

This all has to be done under a vet
  • 2 weeks Equine
  • 4 weeks Small Animal
  • 4 weeks Mixed Animal (farm animal)
  • 13 weeks free choice
    • Anything that you are interested in clinically
      • I did sheep embryo transfer
        • Poultry
        • Cattle scanning
        • etc...
    • You can also use those weeks to do
      • Research (there is a limit to the number of weeks, I can't recall the limit)
      • Laboratory (max 2 weeks)
      • Conferences (max 1 week)
  • 1 week of Abattoir that will be scheduled for you during final year
I hope that this helps.
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Did you have any free time during your breaks? Like would I have time to come back to the US to see my family?
 
anyone else having an issue where the portal keeps creating multiple applications for you :/ My application still has not been reviewed bc they keep repeatedly asking me to submit my fee status even though I did and because it keeps making new vet applications somehow…
 
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courtweb0907 said:
Did you have any free time during your breaks? Like would I have time to come back to the US to see my family?
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I was able to get a lambing in the US about an hour away from my parents. It just needed to be approved.

Also I was able to get my equine weeks and small animal weeks waived, because of my experience.
 
Still no word on my end as well. I wonder how they are going about selecting people though. Is it alphabetically or by who applied first? Are those who did not get interviewed selected first before those who did?
 
Sent an email for an update, they said “application updates have started going out however this happens on a phased basis so not all applicants will hear at exactly the same time…I'd advise that you keep an eye on your emails in the coming weeks for your update”
 
Starting to get sad and accept my fate that because I havent heard back yet, I might be getting waitlisted/denied 🙁 I hope thats not the case though. Trying to stay positive
 
ilovechickens said:
Starting to get sad and accept my fate that because I havent heard back yet, I might be getting waitlisted/denied 🙁 I hope thats not the case though. Trying to stay positive
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It's not a no until they tell you no! Keep your head up 🙂 that's what I'm telling myself!
 
ilovechickens said:
Starting to get sad and accept my fate that because I havent heard back yet, I might be getting waitlisted/denied 🙁 I hope thats not the case though. Trying to stay positive
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I'm starting to feel the same here too. Still keeping up hope that my luck turns around like yours did...
 
I emailed them yesterday and they responded:

“As we have a very large volume of applications on file this year they are being processed on a phased basis. My apologies that you haven't received an update on your application yet but we're working through these applications and will get yours to you as soon as possible.”

Looks like it could be another couple of weeks 🥲
 
Current students: coming in as a first year; what ancillaries do I need to buy? So I see there is not a dress code, but for example does Dublin give students stethoscopes? Not overall life stuff, but what stuff for courses and school do I need?
 
Has anyone applied for the 5 year program heard anything? My profile went under review early Feb but haven't head anything since then 🙁
 
Anyone heard anything recently?
wannabehorsevet said:
I emailed them yesterday and they responded:

“As we have a very large volume of applications on file this year they are being processed on a phased basis. My apologies that you haven't received an update on your application yet but we're working through these applications and will get yours to you as soon as possible.”

Looks like it could be another couple of weeks 🥲
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out of curiosity, did you (or anyone) get a general email notification when decisions started going out? In the feb 4 email from Trish:

"I know how stressful this can be for applicants, so I will email everyone as soon as the first offer has gone out and again when all application statuses have been updated for Round 1. We hope to have everyone updated by the end of February, if not earlier. Please wait until you receive the 2nd email before contacting us about your application."

I never got the first email, which combined with how far we are past February has me concerned that a decision was sent to the wrong email address or something.
 
cms204 said:
Anyone heard anything recently?

out of curiosity, did you (or anyone) get a general email notification when decisions started going out? In the feb 4 email from Trish:

"I know how stressful this can be for applicants, so I will email everyone as soon as the first offer has gone out and again when all application statuses have been updated for Round 1. We hope to have everyone updated by the end of February, if not earlier. Please wait until you receive the 2nd email before contacting us about your application."

I never got the first email, which combined with how far we are past February has me concerned that a decision was sent to the wrong email address or something.
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I only got the feb 4 email, no email received when decisions started going out. Very frustrating that we are well into march and still don’t have a decision. I get it is a lengthy process but it’s less than a month till April 15!
 
Cg20 said:
I only got the feb 4 email, no email received when decisions started going out. Very frustrating that we are well into march and still don’t have a decision. I get it is a lengthy process but it’s less than a month till April 15!
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Dublin does not really follow the April 15th deadline. Last year acceptances and waitlists and rejections were sent out in a rolling process and went past April 15th into the months of May and June as well
 
Cowsrcool said:
Dublin does not really follow the April 15th deadline. Last year acceptances and waitlists and rejections were sent out in a rolling process and went past April 15th into the months of May and June as well
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This is simultaneously comforting and stressful 🙃 Oh well, guess I'm just along for the ride! Dublin remains my first choice school.
 
Cowsrcool said:
Dublin does not really follow the April 15th deadline. Last year acceptances and waitlists and rejections were sent out in a rolling process and went past April 15th into the months of May and June as well
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Did waitlists and rejections come out towards the later part of it and was June the latest people heard from Dublin?
 
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dvminmyfuture said:
Current students: coming in as a first year; what ancillaries do I need to buy? So I see there is not a dress code, but for example does Dublin give students stethoscopes? Not overall life stuff, but what stuff for courses and school do I need?
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No dress code for class no nothing special needed there.
They do not provide a stethoscope - but you do not need one for your first semester or year.
You do need wellies (rubber boots) for being on the farm- steel toed. If you have some bring them. If not they usually do a raffle for first years and you may win a pair that had been passed down from someone graduating.
Coveralls for farm! I have several options for weather. You can order them here if you don’t have any and don’t want to waste luggage space. I have uddertech bibs for when it’s wet, a boiler suit to just generally cover my clothes, and I also have my carhart bibs because I don’t do well when cold 😂

Don’t really need anything else for courses. Just whatever way you prefer to take notes. Most of our books are available as a PDF copy
 
hc8 said:
No dress code for class no nothing special needed there.
They do not provide a stethoscope - but you do not need one for your first semester or year.
You do need wellies (rubber boots) for being on the farm- steel toed. If you have some bring them. If not they usually do a raffle for first years and you may win a pair that had been passed down from someone graduating.
Coveralls for farm! I have several options for weather. You can order them here if you don’t have any and don’t want to waste luggage space. I have uddertech bibs for when it’s wet, a boiler suit to just generally cover my clothes, and I also have my carhart bibs because I don’t do well when cold 😂

Don’t really need anything else for courses. Just whatever way you prefer to take notes. Most of our books are available as a PDF copy
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thank you @hc8
 
Just turned down my offer for the 4-year program. Hope this moves someone off the waitlist!
 
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