When I did my interview in January they had a set list of questions that the school requires them to ask and they write your answers down to send in. I would make sure to be confident in your strengths and weakness' as a person and as an applicant. For me it was a relaxed and stress free interview. The interviewer also has no previous knowledge of anything from your application.
They do not make you write an essay. I'm not sure when they got rid of doing that, but there was just the questions from the interviewer when I did mine.
My interviewer told me it would be about 3 weeks until I would hear something. It took about 6 weeks to hear back though because I guess the admission committee meets during certain times, so it was longer than expected, but they did send me email updates to let me know that they were still going over applications. This was also in January, so not sure if it was the same for any earlier interviews.
Well I too am extremely impatient so I emailed them asking what their timeline looked like and they emailed me back with an interview invitation my app was submitted on 9/17 and verified on 9/21! My email just said that later this week they would let me know more about my interview!When was your application verified?? I’m (im)patiently waiting but wasn’t verified till the 20th and just trying to get a timeline!
That’s so exciting!!!! Congratulations!
Woah I didn’t even realize they did that, how many vet hours did you have already?I just got an email for an interview with the condition that I complete 300 additional vet hours (100 small animal, 200 large animal).
I was really low on vet hours. had about 120 small animal vet hours from three clinics and thousands of animal hours in wildlife and small animal. I’m not sure if they’d allow large wildlife vet hours or if it has to be livestock. I’ll have to leave my city to find a livestock vet. My application hasn’t been verified yet so I don’t even know how they received it so early.
Congrats!!!!
Thanks for the advice! I’ll look around to see if there are any courses where I can get a bulk of hours in a short time. I read that someone last year had the same requirement but was able to do regular animal hours as opposed to vet hours so I’ve asked about that. Even if I travelled hours away to a large animal clinic, I don’t know what vet would take me on with no domestic large animal experience.
If you have a really hard time finding anyone to let you get hours in the LA section try emailing them and explaining your situation. They might be able to give you some advice or figure something out for you. They are very helpful for any questions or concerns that you may have.I just got an email for an interview with the condition that I complete 300 additional vet hours (100 small animal, 200 large animal).
Yeah, I interviewed and they asked for 100 large animal hours from me which was hard to find around Portland, OR.I just got an email for an interview with the condition that I complete 300 additional vet hours (100 small animal, 200 large animal).
I'm not the one you asked but I will note I submitted 10 equine vet hours no food animal and did not have the same request
I applied last cycle and I heard many people getting the same request of large animal hours, but I had no large animal hours at all and was never asked to get any. Not sure the reasoning behind asking some and not everyone.
Just be yourself. As my interviewer told me, by the time you’ve been offered an interview they already mostly know if you’re accepted or not so it’s not make or break. The only time an interview would ever make an impact is if you were on the cusp and it goes exceptionally well or exceptionally badly. So just wear what you’d wear to any other interview, conduct yourself professionally, and be yourself. Statistically if you’re offered an interview there’s a 98% chance you’ll be accepted.
I would check with admissions. I don’t have access to my old email address, but I think they told me in both my interview invite and in my acceptance letter that I needed LA vet experience. Maybe it’s because you have vet experience other than SA. But I would confirm this sooner rather than later so there aren’t any surprises if you end up deciding to go to SGU and they actually do want you to gain more LA vet experience.
