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This may appear to be a random/ignorant question, but here we go:

My job offered me full time work, I accepted because 1) I could keep my health benefits and 2) they promoted my friend to be "nurse". (We both do kennel, but now she is doing vet assisting and has worked there for almost six years)

I want to continue my schooling this semester, but couldn't find any classes that I needed that would work appropriately with my work sched.

Does anyone know if Davis would look down on an applicant doing classes strictly online for a semester or two??
 
Since you know a specific school you want to get into, you should call them and ask. They are your most reliable source of information. Some schools won't accept online courses (if they can even tell), many have a limit on the number or which courses can be online, and others don't care

In the mean time, while you wait to hear back from Davis, do a search for "online" and you find all sorts of threads!
 
Hey!

I went to Davis for undergrad and I believe you can't be a full time student with all online courses because you need a certain number of non-online units...but that's just what someone told me so don't quote me on it.

However I don't know what pre-vet classes you would take anyway because most online courses are the history ones. If you're going to spend a quarter taking classes you don't need, you might as well just save your money and take the quarter off.

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Sorry read the question wrong...thought you were asking about takin online classes at Davis. Just ignore me 🙂
 
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Fly Racing said:
Since you know a specific school you want to get into, you should call them and ask. They are your most reliable source of information. Some schools won't accept online courses (if they can even tell), many have a limit on the number or which courses can be online, and others don't care

In the mean time, while you wait to hear back from Davis, do a search for "online" and you find all sorts of threads!
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Crap I tried to respond and lost my wifi. :/

Davis always replies to me quickly, but they just say my college has to be accredited etc. Obviously for the lab classes I need to do those in person...but more was wondering if it looks bad to take class online for a little while..
 
I am currently taking genetics online through WSU and I know that they offer a few others as well that count as exactly the same as traditional classes (same course number and everything.) They are pretty expensive but it's worth asking. It would seem odd to me if they offered an identical class online, and then did not accept it for their own programs, but that's just my 2 cents 🙂
 
I'm not applying to Davis, but I am taking 3 online courses this semester and working full time (Animal Nutrition, Cell Bio, and Biochem). Of the schools I applied to, it wasn't an issue. I didn't get in, buuuuuut.... I don't think it's because of that 😉
 
Good to know! Thanks! I won't be applying to Davis for 2-3 more years, unless I transfer for undergrad which I'm most likely not going to. I've got some time.
 
I should have also noted, if you are only taking online courses from one school and during the same semesters not taking any courses elsewhere (so on your transcript it show you transfered to school x for 2 semesters) I don't think anyone would even begin to think they are online courses unless it is one of the schools known for being online (UNE for example). But say, you do WSU and take genetics, world history, calculus, and cell biology in a semster, I think you'd be pretty safe that no one would even think about it.
 
Trilt said:
With that said, when you input courses into VMCAS they do ask you to notate if they were online.
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Thanks for bringing that up! A very good point.

I wish we could get into the mind of all the adcoms and know:
1) how they really look at an app (physcally, how they go through it)
2) what they really think is good, bad, and indifferent (since we all love to work our butts off for something that every adcom may see as a neutral item :scared:)
 
Yea, I do know that for Davis they supposedly consider the quality of your education...which is silly cause then they also don't care if you take the lower div pre reqs at a CC...but that's just my opinion.
 
bayarea15 said:
Yea, I do know that for Davis they supposedly consider the quality of your education...which is silly cause then they also don't care if you take the lower div pre reqs at a CC...but that's just my opinion.
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According to my friend at the Davis vet school right now, they told her that Davis generally does not accept students who have spent one or more semesters during a four year college career (except for summer semesters) at a state or community college, unless they have incredible experience.
 
RetroUnicorn said:
According to my friend at the Davis vet school right now, they told her that Davis generally does not accept students who have spent one or more semesters during a four year college career (except for summer semesters) at a state or community college, unless they have incredible experience.
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I'm calling BS on this. Many of my classmates went to state colleges (the "Cal State" schools), and I can think of one or two who did their first two years at a community college before transferring.

I do think it is a good idea to go to the toughest college you can so that you stretch yourself (and yours study skills) to the max, but for some people, Cal States and Community College+Transferring is the right choice.
 
I am a non-traditional student. I graduated with my BA in 2004, and after a few years in a career, finally made the switch. My original intention was to go to the University of Washington as a post-bac, but due to funding cuts, the classes I needed were virtually impossible to get as a post-bac or non-matriculated student, UW told me point blank "not all community colleges are created equal, but ours do have the classes you need, go there." I have since found that most of the classes I need have been not only designed to be direct transfer classes to UW and WSU, most are taught by UW profs. I have been accepted to WSU (with 2 more I haven't heard from,) and no one said a word about my community college classes, and it has cost me a fraction of what UW would have cost. I have also worked full time throughout all of this, which has only been possible by taking evening and early morning classes that community colleges offer.

It may not be the same everywhere, but I think it's well worth your time to look in to what is available. I would start by looking up "transfer course equivalencies."
 
moosenanny said:
I'm calling BS on this. Many of my classmates went to state colleges (the "Cal State" schools), and I can think of one or two who did their first two years at a community college before transferring.

I do think it is a good idea to go to the toughest college you can so that you stretch yourself (and yours study skills) to the max, but for some people, Cal States and Community College+Transferring is the right choice.
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I don't know...it's just what I've heard. I hear a lot of things but I would agree that going to a tough school for all 4-5 years probably looks the best on apps...
 
RetroUnicorn said:
According to my friend at the Davis vet school right now, they told her that Davis generally does not accept students who have spent one or more semesters during a four year college career (except for summer semesters) at a state or community college, unless they have incredible experience.
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Well that's crappy and that means that the admissions website and contact person has been highly misleading. Guess that means only the rich folk who can afford to go to a uc or private college will get to be vets. :/
 
bayarea15 said:
Well that's crappy and that means that the admissions website and contact person has been highly misleading. Guess that means only the rich folk who can afford to go to a uc or private college will get to be vets. :/
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Did you not see my response?
 
bayarea15 said:
Well that's crappy and that means that the admissions website and contact person has been highly misleading. Guess that means only the rich folk who can afford to go to a uc or private college will get to be vets. :/
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I can tell you, I am nowhere close to being rich, but still intend to go to vet school.
 
Well that's crappy and that means that the admissions website and contact person has been highly misleading. Guess that means only the rich folk who can afford to go to a uc or private college will get to be vets. :/
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Seriously? I go to a state school and got accepted to vet school.
It does not matter where you go to school.
And, also, income does not matter. I guess in the aspect that I am very blessed to have parents that could financially support me while I was in school so I did not have to work (but I chose to work anyways) so I could focus on school, you're right. But, I think vet schools find that if someone works PT/FT and goes to school FT, they can handle a lot of work, pressure, obstacles, etc. And we all know what vet school is..
 
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I forgot to use the sarcasm font lol. No but i responded on my lunch. I was serious about it being crap if that's how it really is cause then Davis should just make it required that all your pre Ewww come from a uc or private univ. I am a public cc student, and will transfer to sf state most likely. Is it gonna hinder my chances? Who knows.....but if my friends could getbinto med school and physical therapy school doing 2,3 years at a cc then why not...yea vet school is diff and Davis is def the creme de la creme but we all gotta start somewhere.
 
Pre reqs, not pre Ewws. Lol. Auto correct.
 
bayarea15 said:
Yea, I do know that for Davis they supposedly consider the quality of your education...which is silly cause then they also don't care if you take the lower div pre reqs at a CC...but that's just my opinion.
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From the UC Davis Vet Med Admissions page:

admission_citeria_graph_lg.jpg


I went to a meeting this past fall on "how to be a competitive applicant" at UC Davis (it was past the application deadline, so if I was looking for any tips there, I was kind of screwed) to gain some insight to the admissions process. The academic quality was mentioned as a small bonus to those completing coursework at institutions recognized as being more rigorous than others.

Bottom line, control what you can! Most of the criteria that decides if you get an interview has nothing to do with the academic quality of your education, but how well you did (GPA), how well you test (GRE), your experience, LORs and personal statement (76 out of 80 points).

Side note - just to back up what Moosenanny mentioned regarding gaining acceptance to Davis from California State University, Davis accepted 21 applicants last cycle that went to CSU system schools.
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/students/dvm_program/admissions/ClassOf2015Statistics.cfm
 
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Right??! Lol, I have that thing printed out in my goal book! I have noticed that cal polys, san diego, and humboldt seem to have a higher admittance rate, at least just by glancing at the stats, but I don't know if that's cause they have awesome pre vet clubs or what. And if an ad com will look at me compared to someone from Dartmouth and go, "mmmm ivy league vs ca public univ" who knows...I am just gonna do what I can....thanks guys 🙂
 
 
I'm not sure exactly what goes into this at Davis, but I know at Mizzou they give "motivation points" - they look at course load per semester and "rigor" of the undergraduate institution. So this is not unique to Davis.
 
Bogus is right. :/

Yea, I don't know how they can even say one school is more rigorous than the other, or even determine someone's case load to be less or more rigorous...what is hard for me may be amazingly easy for you and vice versa. It's all silliness....

Online classes aren't for everyone either. Has quite a bit to do with the type of learner you are, imo....

I do hope I am able to convince the folks that my cc and univ grades are hard earned. Time will tell...
 
I can't speak to UCDavis, but I got into Mizzou after taking all my courses at a small, private university. So I don't know how much rigor is taken into account, but they didn't really care about the prestige of my university (my course load was high-ish, so that might've helped, but probably not a ton).

I also think it's silly to worry about the 4% of the admissions process you can't control and worry more about the 96% you can!
 
Does anyone else find it weird that Davis focuses more on the analytical part of the GRE than the verbal or quantitative?
 
bayarea15 said:
Bogus is right. :/

Yea, I don't know how they can even say one school is more rigorous than the other, or even determine someone's case load to be less or more rigorous...what is hard for me may be amazingly easy for you and vice versa. It's all silliness....

Online classes aren't for everyone either. Has quite a bit to do with the type of learner you are, imo....

I do hope I am able to convince the folks that my cc and univ grades are hard earned. Time will tell...
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Uhhhhhhh I can. Now I'm going to say upfront that THIS IS NOT TRUE FOR EVERY STATE SCHOOL. Aight??? This is just my experience ....

I graduated from a private school that is listed higher in that us news an report (and yes the criteria is bogus but we all know that Harvard Princeton and Yale are great schools. NO I didn't go there). I then took prereqs at a state school. It was RIDICULOUSLY easier material. Ridiculous!!! I tried very hard at the private and got mediocre to good grades. I don't try that much at the state and get straight As. It kinda blows my mind the difference, yet people from this school get into dental, med, etc. In hindsight I almost wished I saved the money and got the education from the state school.

But which has prepared me better for a rigorous program? The incredibly hard, extremely competitive, extremely expensive :meanie: higher ranked one.
 
jemappellejane said:
Does anyone else find it weird that Davis focuses more on the analytical part of the GRE than the verbal or quantitative?
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Unless I'm reading the pie chart incorrectly, they weigh quantitative the most, then analytical, then verbal. I think this is pretty akin to the skills needed in vet school/as a vet, so doesn't surprise me at all.
 
TigerWillow said:
Uhhhhhhh I can. Now I'm going to say upfront that THIS IS NOT TRUE FOR EVERY STATE SCHOOL. Aight??? This is just my experience ....

I graduated from a private school that is listed higher in that us news an report (and yes the criteria is bogus but we all know that Harvard Princeton and Yale are great schools. NO I didn't go there). I then took prereqs at a state school. It was RIDICULOUSLY easier material. Ridiculous!!! I tried very hard at the private and got mediocre to good grades. I don't try that much at the state and get straight As. It kinda blows my mind the difference, yet people from this school get into dental, med, etc. In hindsight I almost wished I saved the money and got the education from the state school.

But which has prepared me better for a rigorous program? The incredibly hard, extremely competitive, extremely expensive :meanie: higher ranked one.
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Ouch, sorry tiger willow 🙁 well I know that some of the state.schools are not taken seriously....like Chico used to be considered a party school, but I guess everyone can just do the best they can.
 
UGA is considered a party school, but I don't think it's "looked down on?" Not sure how to say it.. It's highly regarded around where I live at least. Hahaha

It's supposed to be really competitive to get into. I meet more and more people that convince me otherwise.. Not sure how they made it here...

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