schools that expect less experience?

[pumpkinsmom]

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Hi everyone! Well I'm a non-trad, B.S. in Biology from a good university, Masters in Education from Stanford, now I'm almost through with my second year teaching high school science. Basically, I've been working more than full time and teaching is a ton of work, so I've had very little time to accumulate much experience since I decided to career-break a year ago.

I'm going to apply next cycle (2012), with little expectation for the first time applying. But I want to know if I have any chance at all with these numbers. If I don't get in, I'll have to quit my job and try to continue getting more experience. My IS and #1 choice is Davis, and I know their average is 3,000 hours! But I don't know as much about other schools, so I'm looking for some insight from anywhere!!

So my big question is: What are the schools that don't require or expect as many experience hours?? Here is some more detail about my situation...


Here's the experience I plan to have by applying in Fall 2012:
100 hours volunteering at zoo
60 hours volunteering/walking dogs at dog shelter
100 hours shadowing/volunteering in local vet clinic
6 weeks (~300 hours?) volunteering with farm animals and a small animal clinic in India
1.5 months (~200 hours?) working as a vet assistant in a vet clinic
= Total ~760 hours

Compared to mostly everyone else the experience numbers above just look so pathetic... But my other stats are a bit better:
Undergrad Overall GPA: 3.42
Science GPA: 3.91
Grad-school GPA: 3.94
GRE Verbal: 640, Quantitave: 740, Writing: 5.0

 

[vetme]

Hi everyone! Well I'm a non-trad, B.S. in Biology from a good university, Masters in Education from Stanford, now I'm almost through with my second year teaching high school science. Basically, I've been working more than full time and teaching is a ton of work, so I've had very little time to accumulate much experience since I decided to career-break a year ago.

I'm going to apply next cycle (2012), with little expectation for the first time applying. But I want to know if I have any chance at all with these numbers. If I don't get in, I'll have to quit my job and try to continue getting more experience. My IS and #1 choice is Davis, and I know their average is 3,000 hours! But I don't know as much about other schools, so I'm looking for some insight from anywhere!!

So my big question is: What are the schools that don't require or expect as many experience hours?? Here is some more detail about my situation...


Here's the experience I plan to have by applying in Fall 2012:
100 hours volunteering at zoo
60 hours volunteering/walking dogs at dog shelter
100 hours shadowing/volunteering in local vet clinic
6 weeks (~300 hours?) volunteering with farm animals and a small animal clinic in India
1.5 months (~200 hours?) working as a vet assistant in a vet clinic
= Total ~760 hours

Compared to mostly everyone else the experience numbers above just look so pathetic... But my other stats are a bit better:
Undergrad Overall GPA: 3.42
Science GPA: 3.91
Grad-school GPA: 3.94
GRE Verbal: 640, Quantitave: 740, Writing: 5.0

Your stats look pretty good. If I were you I would apply to your in state and maybe two or three others chosen by doing a little research in the VMSAR. It will tell you what the vet schools expect.

 

[jtom]

Im not sure when you got your bio degree or took the GRE, alot of schools have restrictions in accepting courses/GRE taken many years ago.

 

[abbercadaver]

Several schools I applied to this year also specifically said they'd ONLY accept the new version of the GRE next application cycle.

Super lame. Even if your old version of the GRE scores are less than 5 years old, they are still REQUIRING the new one. 🙁

 

[pooter]

My hours were way more pathetic than that.

 

[StartingoverVet]

Hi everyone! Well I'm a non-trad, B.S. in Biology from a good university, Masters in Education from Stanford, now I'm almost through with my second year teaching high school science. Basically, I've been working more than full time and teaching is a ton of work, so I've had very little time to accumulate much experience since I decided to career-break a year ago.

I'm going to apply next cycle (2012), with little expectation for the first time applying. But I want to know if I have any chance at all with these numbers. If I don't get in, I'll have to quit my job and try to continue getting more experience. My IS and #1 choice is Davis, and I know their average is 3,000 hours! But I don't know as much about other schools, so I'm looking for some insight from anywhere!!

So my big question is: What are the schools that don't require or expect as many experience hours?? Here is some more detail about my situation...


Here's the experience I plan to have by applying in Fall 2012:
100 hours volunteering at zoo
60 hours volunteering/walking dogs at dog shelter
100 hours shadowing/volunteering in local vet clinic
6 weeks (~300 hours?) volunteering with farm animals and a small animal clinic in India
1.5 months (~200 hours?) working as a vet assistant in a vet clinic
= Total ~760 hours

Compared to mostly everyone else the experience numbers above just look so pathetic... But my other stats are a bit better:
Undergrad Overall GPA: 3.42
Science GPA: 3.91
Grad-school GPA: 3.94
GRE Verbal: 640, Quantitave: 740, Writing: 5.0

I got into davis with fewer vet hours 500-600 (although I had many animal experience hours).... and slightly better academic/gre. A lot may depend on how you "position" yourself in your PS.

 

[screechie]

I definitely wouldn't freak too bad about the hours. I have just under 200 hours and I have acceptances from to two schools and have interviewed at one other so far. If you can back your application up with other strong points which it seems like you can you will probably get in somewhere.

 

[Chebanse]

I have spoken to several people on admissions boards and asked about hours, and the most common response I have gotten is that they just want to see that you have an understanding of the profession and that you know about several different kinds of practices. That doesn't mean thousands of hours. Vet experience that you can squeeze into your schedule between now and October should be more than sufficient. You are right on track with several people I know that got in. I also got in with only a little over 1000 hours of vet experience.

 

[jemappellejane]

Just wanted to say hello from a fellow teacher turned vet school hopeful!