Pre-Vet Society

[Phebe]

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Due to this topic still stick to my mind during the study of my dear last final, I would like to ask those whose are in pre-vet society, or had been in once...

What Pre-Vet society actually do?
the one in my university is really "poor" --less then 10 people, including the chair, vice chair, secretory, historian and treasurer...

We had tried to hold activities, like making a dog show inside a big university activity...the chamber took our idea, hold it themselves and kick us off the list. We tried to hold fund raising, rejected since we are such a small group, while there are other big organization line to be approved.

We had meeting over like discussion over prerequisites and schools. What else?

What other pre-vet societies work like, what you do and how you maintain the society? 🙂

 

[dyachei]

The one at my undergrad school had a panel of accepted students and current vet students in the spring semester. It was pretty helpful to know exactly what the people in vet school were going through and to see firsthand what was needed that year and personal interview experiences. they also did field trips to the aquarium and zoo. We also went to different vet's offices and talked to vets there about their experiences (mostly small animal and exotics).

I believe there were dues of $5 per semester per member to get around the fundraising.

 

[sofficat]

The size and activity level of pre-vet societies differ at every university/college. When I was in undergrad the club had just started up again and there were only about 10 of us, including all of the officers. It was still fun and we made the best out of it. We went to the north american vet conference together and did fundraisers and participated in local events hosted by the humane society. It was most useful just to get together and talk about the application process and after some of us went through our interviews we had a whole meeting just on that. We had a few people join after we drew on the sidewalks all around campus to advertise our club.
Good luck!

 

[bakaduin]

At UF our prevet club is about 150-200 members pay dues, though certainly the number of active members drops as the year goes on. We hold meetings every other Thursday of the semester and have a guest speaker at each. Speakers range from different veterinary specialists, to Vet professors, to AdCom members, to rescue groups in the area, etc). We also have events about every other weekend. This semester we had a behind the scenes tour of the Florida Aquarium and Big Cat Rescue. We also visted Jungle friends to help build habitats for rescued monkeys and the Retirement Home for Horses to groom and feed. In the fall we hold a Halloween Dog Costume Contest and in the Spring we have a 5k Marathon. FUN IS HAD BY ALL!

 

[banditalfi]

We don't have anything like that at my school. There is a pre-health society, but they really focus on pre-med, which is essentially unhelpful. We have a pre-health advisor who does her best to help us through the process, but we are essentially on our own. That being said, I only know of one other girl who is applying from my class and two people who graduated last May.

 

[VAgirl]

We don't have anything like that at my school. There is a pre-health society, but they really focus on pre-med, which is essentially unhelpful. We have a pre-health advisor who does her best to help us through the process, but we are essentially on our own. That being said, I only know of one other girl who is applying from my class and two people who graduated last May.

It was similar at my undergrad. And, in fact, I've had such horrible experiences with pre-health (really pre-med) advisors, as have so many of my friends, that I am really not a fan of them at all. They seem to be nicer at schools with less competitive pre-med programs, though. At the larger schools, they really just see you as a number that will either help or hurt their all important statistics on how many of their students who applied to school (generally med school) and got in. 😡

 

[sofficat]

At UF our prevet club is about 150-200 members pay dues, though certainly the number of active members drops as the year goes on. We hold meetings every other Thursday of the semester and have a guest speaker at each. Speakers range from different veterinary specialists, to Vet professors, to AdCom members, to rescue groups in the area, etc). We also have events about every other weekend. This semester we had a behind the scenes tour of the Florida Aquarium and Big Cat Rescue. We also visted Jungle friends to help build habitats for rescued monkeys and the Retirement Home for Horses to groom and feed. In the fall we hold a Halloween Dog Costume Contest and in the Spring we have a 5k Marathon. FUN IS HAD BY ALL!

Keep in mind, this is coming from a university that has a vet school, so don't feel bad if your club seems insignificant compared to this.

 

[Phebe]

Yes, I understand 🙂
just figuring out how to unite this small group of people with the same passion 🙂

 

[brightness]

We did this thing where we got some shelter dogs that were cleared of aggression and some people to bring their pets, too, and different groups took them to various residence halls to have them play during finals week. Thats a fun idea.

 

[Tiraka]

At the larger schools, they really just see you as a number that will either help or hurt their all important statistics on how many of their students who applied to school (generally med school) and got in. 😡

I've heard of some schools with rather horrifying policies for med school applicants - like certain GPA/MCAT requirements to get a committee letter. What ends up happening is that the school has great med school acceptance stats to pitch to high school students, and the applicants who were borderline but still had a chance of being accepted get blackballed by their undergrad.

As for pre-vet clubs - mine is large, but I didn't find it very helpful (not worth the $35/year dues). This may be because I joined as a sophomore, and had done my research into the application process, so I'd already heard everything they were telling me. When I left, however, they were getting some programs started that would be very helpful for freshmen and people in need of vet experience.

 

[Truth74]

The one I was involved with was exclusionary. You have to do this number of activities, attend this number of meetings, go to this number of bar crawls to be eligible for active membership. Active membership meant you could go to symposium, wet labs, employment opportunities, and other cool things. I guess it was great for people without jobs (yeah, plural) to get through school. It just made it harder to build a rapport with local vets, because the pre-vets were taking up all of the space.