Mizzou 2025-2026 (c/o 2030 hopefuls)

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vetschoolhopeful101 said:
Hello. I am working on my applications now to be submitted in August for the 2026 admission cycle (20y M, first time applicant). Soon to start working on my 17 essays!!!!😯. If anyone has any particular advice on how to strengthen my application or a particular school I should consider, please share.

Currently planning to apply to: NCSU, UT Knoxville (ISS), TAMU, UF, Georgia, and Missouri
I am most interested in good large animal and exotic/wildlife elective rotations, and will likely do mixed animal upon finishing school (so I don't starve doing only large animals lol).
Additional driving factors in school selection: price, location (commute to home - middle TN), amount of clinical/hands-on time

Does anyone know specifics about Mizzou's large animal and exotic/wildlife elective rotations?
I have heard the area is smaller, which is appealing to me. Most affordable, nearby living arrangements?
Thanks.
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Mizzou is a 2 and 2 program which means that we are in the classroom for 2 years and then do clinical rotations for 2 years! This means that you have a lot of built in time for electives/externships/preceptorships during your clinical years. Every student is required to do a 6 week food animal medicine and surgery rotation and a 6 week equine rotation at the Veterinary Health Center. There are electives for both food animal and equine available that you can complete, but I'm not sure how long they are/what they entail/how competitive they are. We do not have specific exotic/wildlife rotations through the Veterinary Health Center but we do have Raptor Rehabilitation Project. You can join that as a first or second year vet student and then when you are in your clinical years you become a primary doctor for any birds that come in. If you are looking for specific exotic/wildlife/large animal rotations other than what the school offers, you can use the free blocks/weeks you are given to do externships in those areas!

As for living arrangements, most students use our Facebook Mizzou vet school housing page to find places to live. It is super easy! Most vet students I know of either live in an apartment or rent a house with other students. I don't think cost of living is too bad here.

Let me know if you have more specific questions about any of this! You are also welcome to DM me 🙂
 
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Congratulations to everyone invited! I HIGHLY recommend if you can swing it to come join us on an in person interview day. It is more than just your interview the whole day is surrounded around you with tours of the school and VHC (teaching hospital), a q/a with student ambassadors, faculty meet and greet/banquet lunch. To those who were not offered an interview please know that Mizzou as I'm sure goes for all schools this year received a RECORD NUMBER of OOS applications (over 2000). I assisted in a committee this year on selection of candidates for OOS interviews and our team struggled as there were many applicants in our stack that were deserving of an interview but the fact of the matter was we had a set number we could invite, it is likely not that there was something significantly wrong with your application but moreso that there was more applicants than seats for an interview. Keep your heads up and know that its not over till the application cycle is truly over, it only takes 1! Please reach out if anyone has specific questions prior to their interview or in general! Hoping to see many of you during the In person weekends in the new year!!
 
Does anyone know if the interview is going to be more conversational about your application or are they going to ask situational questions?
 
jclarson said:
Does anyone know if the interview is going to be more conversational about your application or are they going to ask situational questions?
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Conversational, application based for the most part. Goal is to get to know you off paper. The panel is given all your applications to go through so they will already have questions. Each member will ask 2 questions with potential for follow up if time allows. There will also be around 3 general questions that everyone is asked at the end
 
Will Mizzou release how many interviews were offered? I wonder if its more than last year to compensate for more applicants
 
stinkydog said:
Will Mizzou release how many interviews were offered? I wonder if its more than last year to compensate for more applicants
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Mid 500's is typically how many are offered but that is dispersed between those who choose zoom or in person. There were over 2000 OOS applications this cycle and around 200 IS
 
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Since Mizzou invites all instate applicants to interview, as in instate applicant I know my interview may be my make it or break it when it comes to acceptance (even though I know the stakes are way higher for OOS, and I wish you all the best of luck!) but I guess my question is when it comes to instate, do you think the committee already has an idea of who they want based on applications prior and are just required to interview everyone or what is the strategy going into interviews for instate (if we have any idea lmao)
 
Every applicant is scored on an identical rubric - you are scored on grades, experiences, etc and also receive a score for your interview. All of those will be totaled and those with the highest scores are accepted. Same for oos and is. Some individuals likely will have higher scores pre interview than others but if you get a very high score on your interview that would even it out. Does that help answer your question?
 
beans2020 said:
Every applicant is scored on an identical rubric - you are scored on grades, experiences, etc and also receive a score for your interview. All of those will be totaled and those with the highest scores are accepted. Same for oos and is. Some individuals likely will have higher scores pre interview than others but if you get a very high score on your interview that would even it out. Does that help answer your question?
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Yes. I do have a follow up question. While scoring and making acceptance decisions, do they still take into consideration IS vs OSS? Or is that only when it comes to interview invites?
Do they keep OSS and IS separate so they don’t accept all OSS and all IS based on the scoring system?
 
cheyana99 said:
Yes. I do have a follow up question. While scoring and making acceptance decisions, do they still take into consideration IS vs OSS? Or is that only when it comes to interview invites?
Do they keep OSS and IS separate so they don’t accept all OSS and all IS based on the scoring system?
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The goal is to accept IS and OOS in a 50:50 ratio. So IS and OOS are in two separate pools and the top scoring applicants from each pool (roughly in that 50:50 ratio) are accepted. If you are an IS applicant you will not be compared to OOS applicants, only other IS applicants in your pool and vice versa. IS and OOS have their own separate waitlists as well but that gets super complicated and I don't fully understand it lol
 
Does anyone know if fall transcripts affect GPA calculations or is it just to make sure you passed your classes?
 
It is just to make sure you passed your classes- usually each school's offer is contingent upon passing all in progress courses with a C/C- or higher
 
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Does this email mean they received my transcript?
 
Sending good vibes to all who have or will be going into their Mizzou interviews!! I scheduled mine for this Thursday and am getting a lil nervous!
 
Best of luck to EVERYONE!! Very excited to meet some of you if you are attending during an in person weekends 😊
Please reach out if you have any questions!

~ Ali
 
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