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I don't know about the rest of you, but I am amused by the veterinary and animal experience hours being claimed by many people on this forum and during the application process. When you look at the numbers, a person with a full time job, working 40 hours a week, might work 2000 hours in an entire year. Thats without any vacation. All of us, were supposed to be working our ass off in undergrad (shouldn't really have a ton of free time) and somehow people are claiming to have 4-5K hours of vet experience and an additional 2K hours of animal experience (thats the low side for some people). As someone who is attempting to begin a second career in the veterinary field it is quite annoying that I feel like I have to lie just to keep up with the rest of the liars. I am coming from an aerospace engineering background degree UCSD (impressive in its own right) and have no way of obtaining anywhere near these kind of hours before I apply to vet school. I obviously understand that many people are using hours they acquired in high school or middle school, and I agree that this type of experience is great. But really people, as a 15 year old kid what kind of experience did you really get in the clinic? Maybe I'm just bitter because I don't have these hours to add to my application but it just seems a little ridiculous and I'm not sure how the admissions board takes some of these claims seriously. Anyone care to agree or disagree?