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My goal is to be a veterinarian...does anyone have any advice that would especially pertain to this? Especially regarding post-bacc programs?
Thanks!
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DVM aspirations...need advice please
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Hey Lori,
I was in your shoes not too long ago (I will start vet school in the fall- yea!). I thought I would do a formal post bacc, but with work I ended up doing a more ala carte system. From my research it seems that any one would be fine since you need the same classes as the pre meds with some additions. I would definitely say that it's really important to know the pre requisites of the schools you are targetting, so you can be sure not to miss any classes and then come up with a plan, especially since a lot of advisors geared toward premeds won't be as familiar with these.
It would also help if you were near a vet school to take undergrad classes there. A friend did a post bacc at penn and was able to use the advisors at the vet school there ( a big bonus!). If you can find a post bacc geared toward vet that's great, but I don't think it's strictly necessary as long as you do your homework by checking the individual school requirements. I would just find a place that was convienant and that made personal and financial sense for you.
The Vet forum here also has friendly folks with LOTS of experience in the Vet application process.
Good Luck!
I was in your shoes not too long ago (I will start vet school in the fall- yea!). I thought I would do a formal post bacc, but with work I ended up doing a more ala carte system. From my research it seems that any one would be fine since you need the same classes as the pre meds with some additions. I would definitely say that it's really important to know the pre requisites of the schools you are targetting, so you can be sure not to miss any classes and then come up with a plan, especially since a lot of advisors geared toward premeds won't be as familiar with these.
It would also help if you were near a vet school to take undergrad classes there. A friend did a post bacc at penn and was able to use the advisors at the vet school there ( a big bonus!). If you can find a post bacc geared toward vet that's great, but I don't think it's strictly necessary as long as you do your homework by checking the individual school requirements. I would just find a place that was convienant and that made personal and financial sense for you.
The Vet forum here also has friendly folks with LOTS of experience in the Vet application process.
Good Luck!
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Based on my classmates who are going this route, at the vet school here at UC Davis, they encourage applicants with low GPA's to go to grad school rather than post-bacc for some reason. Sorta different than med where they tell you to do post-bacc so you can improve your overall undergrad GPA. Good news for these students, we have a masters program that actually allows them to take vet school courses, so that looks very good in the eyes of vet schools, at least UCDSVM. I have NO clue what it is like beyond UCD though. I'm towards the human side of things..haha. But the DVM stuff looks really neat, and very competative too so good luck! 
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Colorado State has a Plan B master's program in biomedical sciences that is one year long. In that program people can do a human emphasis, animal emphasis, or neuro emphasis. In the animal emphasis people take domestic animal dissection. There are also serval DVM's there are teachers of classes with in the program
