The white coat ceremony is in October of your third year, before you start clinics. In my opinion this is a perfect time to do it, because after 2+ years of working your butt off slogging through the classroom, I really felt like it held more meaning for me than if I would have gotten it at the beginning of school.
I can't remember if they specifically sent out an email to everyone (though Kathy does keep people up to date on request). However, even if the class is "full," there can still be movement, sometimes all the way until school starts in August.
Not LA/Equine, but I have plenty of classmates who are and are happy with their experience. We have a very active Bovine and Equine club, involvement with lots of fun wetlabs, conferences, research, etc. In the summer after your second year, you are technically a "third year," so you can go do externships at LA/Equine clinics if that's what you want. I had one friend externing at an equine hospital for 4 weeks, another went to CA at a large dairy and did a biljillion ultrasounds on cows all day every day.
Thank you!!!! Your info is always extremely helpful! =)
I’m 90% sure Kansas State, my runner up is Oklahoma State. Congrats to you regardless!
Hey there! So my SO was in your position and picked Mizzou over his IS U of I since it would actually be a few thousand cheaper if he went with Mizzou. And while he isn't able to directly to compare the two, he is happy with his decision to go to Mizzou.
Straight from the US News website "All the health rankings are based solely on the results of peer assessment surveys sent to deans, other administrators and/or faculty at accredited degree programs or schools in each discipline." In other words, these peer reviews you refer to are just based on the school faculty ranking each other, they're not done by vets that are looking to hire new grads. Maybe some vets judge applicants based on where they went to school, but IMO if someone is going to make assumptions about me just based on how my school is ranked rather than looking at my experiences, letters of recommendation, and interview, that's probably not someone I want to work for anyway.
I guess it depends on your definition of quality and desirable. I do find talks that categorize people on age to be fascinating. Considering how often people try and categorize me (and people in general) by age. Most of the people I relate most to are at least 10 years older than me if not even more than 30 years in age gap. I would hope (obviously not the case, but...) that most students who have gotten to employment seeking for this profession have realized there is no special treatment and that includes not being treated special because you graduated Cornell vs NC. I also feel that nothing can ever really truly be all equal considering, for example, if you and I were interviewing for the same job perhaps the owner liked my personality more than yours for whatever reason (maybe I connect with clients better) but I lacked in experience compared to you. That owner, although your resumae is impressive, they value my client connection more and would choose me over you. I don't know, I just have never worked for a vet that valued the school of the DVM over another to the point of making an offer to one applicant over another. Even in the current practice though disappointed with CSU people they have gotten recently they still consider all applicants equally with name having no barring basing decisions on the interview and how personalities flow is the deciding factor than a name tacked on the paper. (In fact our newest hire was from CSU)
Of course I know that prospective employers most likely won't know you well (although keep in mind many people specifically choose externships during clinics at practices that they're interested in working at, so the vets can get to know you and vice versa during that time period). But I would hope that if a hiring decision were to come down to two candidates with very similar experiences and LORs, they would base their decision off of things like personality and behavior during an interview rather than just say "nope, she went to Ross/Midwestern/wherever, we're going to go with the UC Davis grad because that's the #1 school."
I didn’t say you went off, I said please don’t go off.Where do I go off on a tirade about it not being equal????
Oh, right, I didn't.
Then how can you say no?
But it's a completely imaginary, unrealistic scenario for the ONLY difference between two schools to be their ranking, and that's not the case here for F&O. For instance, Ashgirl already pointed out that Mizzou is several thousand cheaper than Illinois. (About $14k over the course of 4 years if the VIN map is correct)
If you had the option between two people to date and they were equal in all respects except one of them was evil, you would obviously date the non-evil one, right?
