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Does anyone know how the dorm assignments work? Can we request to live with other vet students
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~Does anyone know how the dorm assignments work? Can we request to live with other vet students
I know they push the on campus housing due to the severe housing shortage / crisis in Dublin rnMaybe a group of us can find a house and then we’ll all be vet students :/ not a fan of random assignment
It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.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?
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.Maybe a group of us can find a house and then we’ll all be vet students :/ not a fan of random assignment
Does anyone know how the dorm assignments work? Can we request to live with other vet students
Yup. This is correct.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~
This is very helpful, thank you so much!It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.
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.
- 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
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
I hope that this helps.
- 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
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.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?
It is 12 weeks during your 1st 2 years. This is done over spring break, Christmas break and summer.
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.
- 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
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
I hope that this helps.
- 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
Most people in Grad Entry go home for summer and winter breaks and do a reasonable amount of placements in the US.Did you have any free time during your breaks? Like would I have time to come back to the US to see my family?
Same nothing for meI just need to make sure I'm not alone... Anyone else not heard either way and slowly losing it? 🫠 My portal still says decision pending. I interviewed in NYC in January.
Same. Its giving me so much anxiety, I hope they send more acceptances soonI just need to make sure I'm not alone... Anyone else not heard either way and slowly losing it? 🫠 My portal still says decision pending. I interviewed in NYC in January.
I got it Friday morning around 8:15 am MTDid you get it this weekend??
Yes please!!would you guys want me to make a group me for accepted students?
So. much. anxiety.Same. Its giving me so much anxiety, I hope they send more acceptances soon
Did you have any free time during your breaks? Like would I have time to come back to the US to see my family?
Not meHas anyone heard anything since last week?
not me eitherNot me
Not me either.Not me
there is none, wear what you want! the irish are super chillCurrent students: what’s the dress code policy for lectures?
It's not a no until they tell you no! Keep your head up 🙂 that's what I'm telling myself!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
I'm starting to feel the same here too. Still keeping up hope that my luck turns around like yours did...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
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 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 🥲
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!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.
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 wellI 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!
This is simultaneously comforting and stressful 🙃 Oh well, guess I'm just along for the ride! Dublin remains my first choice school.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
Did waitlists and rejections come out towards the later part of it and was June the latest people heard from Dublin?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
No dress code for class no nothing special needed there.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?
thank you @hc8No 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
No I heard in August. Just 9 days before classes started.Did waitlists and rejections come out towards the later part of it and was June the latest people heard from Dublin?