Pre-Vet Roadmap...advice?

[Zealous Euphemi]

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Hello! I'm a Junior doing Pre-Vet at the University of Vermont. This is an amazing college for anyone going prevet because there is a strong core science program (biology, chemistry, etc) but there is also an agricultural school that offers Animal Science courses.[/shameless propaganda for the school I love]

Right now I find myself frantically trying to find my way, because while the Animal Science pre-vet students are given information about internships and lectures, reminders about GRE's and application notices, the bio pre-vet students are completely overlooked.

I've been getting my information piece by piece online about requirements, and I've completed almost all of the entry requirements for the vet schools I'm interested in (except, randomly, the English courses...never occurred to me they'd want me to be able to write properly 😛). But I don't know where to go from here! On Monday I need to sign up for classes, and I'm feeling the pressure.

What I need, what I would really LOVE, is a sort of roadmap about when certain milestones must be passed...like "By the end of your junior year, have your application ready t be reviews! By the end of your first semester of senior year, have taken a pre-GRE exam!

Since many of you are at the same level of study, and many more have already achieved this, I would love your help. I'm a bit lost.

 

[Angelo84]

Hello! I'm a Junior doing Pre-Vet at the University of Vermont. This is an amazing college for anyone going prevet because there is a strong core science program (biology, chemistry, etc) but there is also an agricultural school that offers Animal Science courses.[/shameless propaganda for the school I love]

Right now I find myself frantically trying to find my way, because while the Animal Science pre-vet students are given information about internships and lectures, reminders about GRE's and application notices, the bio pre-vet students are completely overlooked.

I've been getting my information piece by piece online about requirements, and I've completed almost all of the entry requirements for the vet schools I'm interested in (except, randomly, the English courses...never occurred to me they'd want me to be able to write properly 😛). But I don't know where to go from here! On Monday I need to sign up for classes, and I'm feeling the pressure.

What I need, what I would really LOVE, is a sort of roadmap about when certain milestones must be passed...like "By the end of your junior year, have your application ready t be reviews! By the end of your first semester of senior year, have taken a pre-GRE exam!

Since many of you are at the same level of study, and many more have already achieved this, I would love your help. I'm a bit lost.

The pre-req's are going to vary by the schools you apply to most schools are going to require a year of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry (+/- organic lab), and physics. Some schools also want a semster (or two) of biochemistry, microbiology, and animal nutrition and english composition. A few other oddballs are a semster business course or communication course. Check out the schools you are thinking about applying to.

Assuming you are hoping to enter vet school in the fall after graduation as as a senior you would want to take the GRE the summer after your junior year I would take it relatively early in the summer so you can take it again if you want to. Applications are due Oct 1st the year before you want to start--so fall semester of senior year for you and open in June of that year. Other than the pre-reqs you need animal and veterinary experience you can check out the successful applicants threads for ideas.

Also since you have pre-vet advisors you can still talk to them even if they are not technically "your" advisor.

Good luck!

 

[cateyes]

Hey Zealous!!
I'm a graduate from UVM...I agree, it is a great school! It sounds like you're already on the right track. There is no real set milestone deadline..it's just you need to have all of x things done before your application is submitted in late September-early October.

The VMCAS application usually goes up the end of May/beginning of June, and needs to be submitted usually around the 1-2 of October. Prior to submitting that you'd want to have taken your GRE (there is a hard and fast deadline that schools accept this by, but I'd recommend taking it earlier in the application process rather than later, in case you want to improve your score). You're going to need 3 ELORs, or letters of recommendations. If you have people in mind to write these, I'd ask them sooner rather than later, so that they have time to begin thinking about what exactly they want to say in their letter. Tell them when the application becomes available, and then remind them when the application actually goes live. If you don't have it, the VMSAR (http://www.amazon.com/Veterinary-Me...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226622333&sr=8-1 -I think that's the current book) is great, because it lists each US school and all of their requirements, deadlines, fees ect.

Ok, I'm going to end my rambling 🙄...I hope that was slightly clear!

PM me if there's anything I can help you with that's UVM related....best of luck!