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How do you find out the "competiveness" of your school.. Just wondering how my school will be looked at by Vet Schools...Thanks In Advance!
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From what I understand, they don't really rank the competitiveness of your undergraduate program. Just do well in your pre-requisites and you'll be fine 🙂
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I don't think it adds any information that you didn't already know from being a student at your school. Some schools are notoriously super-competitive and are very stingy about giving high grades. But you know this already just by how easy/hard it is to gain admission and to get good grades once admitted. This tends to be taken into account when evaluating transcripts. But going to a less competitive school isn't going to hurt as long as you do well. If I remember correctly, your stats are excellent so it probably won't matter at all if you went to a "less competitive" school.
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there is a distinction though between a "less competitive" school and a community college. If a majority of your coursework was completed at a community college, I can't imagine that this will not be taken into consideration if you are up against someone who went to Cornell (and even if they have slightly lower grades). Of course though, if you took a few courses at a CC, you won't really be penalized. Overall though, I don't think that it matters much. I went to a school that is considered "less competitive" and had no problem.
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Chances are, if it's not a school that's notorious for prestige or grade deflation or something like that, it won't make any difference at all. I'd say don't worry about it since it's something that's totally out of your control anyway. It's not like knowing the "competitiveness" of your school (if there really is such a thing) is going to allow you to gauge your chances of getting accepted... and IMO it's rather douchy and tacky to say anything about that in your application (not saying that you were thinking about it). It's just one of those things that adcoms may or may not notice as they're going through your file.
