Online degree and Vet school

[mattb4357]

So here it is, about a year ago I applied to the University of Edinburgh and was accepted but had to turn it down because I was heading to the Middle East and would not be able to finish the semester. Now I am overseas working as a civilian for the Air Force and am taking classes online through the University of Maryland University College and a wondering if it is possible to enter vet school with a degree received online, has it been done before? Before I left to come overseas I was attending the University of Texas at El Paso and had a 3.9 gpa as a junior. Do you think if I explained my circumstances that this would help me out at all?

Thanks
-Matt

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[turquoisewolves]

So here it is, about a year ago I applied to the University of Edinburgh and was accepted but had to turn it down because I was heading to the Middle East and would not be able to finish the semester. Now I am overseas working as a civilian for the Air Force and am taking classes online through the University of Maryland University College and a wondering if it is possible to enter vet school with a degree received online, has it been done before? Before I left to come overseas I was attending the University of Texas at El Paso and had a 3.9 gpa as a junior. Do you think if I explained my circumstances that this would help me out at all?

Thanks
-Matt

Hi,
I think there are quite a few people around here that have taken many online courses that contributed to their degree. Not sure about the "entire" degree but you said you left traditional school as a junior. I know certain schools don't take online lab courses like Western...but others accept them. You really have to inquire to the individual schools that you are interested in. I actually have 4 out of 9 of my semesters for my degree completed online and I just got accepted this year for c/o 2015.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

 

[mattb4357]

Hi,
I think there are quite a few people around here that have taken many online courses that contributed to their degree. Not sure about the "entire" degree but you said you left traditional school as a junior. I know certain schools don't take online lab courses like Western...but others accept them. You really have to inquire to the individual schools that you are interested in. I actually have 4 out of 9 of my semesters for my degree completed online and I just got accepted this year for c/o 2015.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

Thanks for the quick response; I am just trying to decide what the best path for me is. I figured online classes are better than nothing, and I guess that if it's meant to be I will find a way to make it happen.🙂

 

[VeganSoprano]

Double check with the school. Most schools are fine with online courses as long as they come from a reputable school (such as UMD). Just ask them up front so you don't end up wasting the money.

 

[sumstorm]

5 of my pre-reqs were completed online/distance: biochem, vet nutrition, genetics, micro-econ, business management.

I took these courses via distance because I was working, and I couldn't take the courese locally at the required levels. I did take all the courses through state universities.

All my other pre-reqs came from a traditional 4yr lib arts college

 

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[LetItSnow]

5 of my pre-reqs were completed online/distance: biochem, vet nutrition, genetics, micro-econ, business management.

How is the lab component done for distance classes like biochem and genetics?

I think at UMN they require a lab for ... genetics, but not biochem? Just wondering how someone would do that (via distance/online).

 

[EllieGirl89]

How is the lab component done for distance classes like biochem and genetics?

I think at UMN they require a lab for ... genetics, but not biochem? Just wondering how someone would do that (via distance/online).

I know at Ohio State they didn't require labs for those two classes, so maybe other schools don't as well.

Besides that, my girlfriend has done a few lab courses online. One of them was physics, and what the teacher did was group people together by where they lived, and then all the apparati they needed was really common household stuff. So they would get together once a week, do the experiment, take a picture of all of them together doing said experiment, and then hand in a lab report.

Other schools, I know, you have to be close enough in proximity to the school to be able to travel there for labs.