1st Time Applicant- 21 year old Female
Texas Resident
Applied: TAMU, VMRCVM, UPenn (combined PhD), CSU (Combined PhD), Cornell (Combined PhD), NCSU (combined PhD)
Combined Program Interviews: CSU, Cornell, NCSU
Rejected: UPenn, VMRCVM
Accepted: TAMU, CSU, Cornell, NCSU (COMBINED PROGRAM!!!!! WOOT WOOT!)
Cum GPA: 3.61
Last 45: around a 3.7
Science GPA: around a 3.7
GRE: V 650 (95%), Q 790 (90%-I think), A 4.5 (i think)
Veterinary Experience:
~1100 hours in high school working at a mixed practice clinic
~ 300 hours working vet checks for an animal rescue non-profit
- 14 hours assisting and observing a C-section and hernia repair on my mare
Employment/Animal Experience:
- Lived and worked on a Hanoverian farm for a year in college
- worked as a camp counselor/horseback instructor for a summer
- various jobs riding horses, cleaning stalls, and working as a groom
- calf research project(30 hours one summer)
- tutor
- TA for Intro Physics Lab
Extracurriculars:
- Phi Mu sorority
- Equestrian Team (captain)
Awards:
Deans list most semesters
Research Fellowship from my school
Travel award to go to a conference and present a poster
Research:
- 30 hours calf nutrition project
- 150 hours biomechanics project (most boring stuff ever!)
- 600 hours Biophysics Research ( I LOVE NITRIC OXIDE)
eLORS:
- Vet who I worked with through high school and has known me since I was born
- PI/Adviser
- English Professor
- Health Professions committee adviser
- PI on a biomechanics project
- Guy who got his PhD in my lab
- Animal science professor/PI for calf project
- I was reviewed by our health professions committee and received a ranking of High Confidence- they sent the letters as a packet, but some schools wouldn't take this and I had to then re ask for letters (it was a pain)
Personal statement focused on how I went from being the stereotypical I want to be a vet little girl to a serious adult who wanted to combine basic science research with a career in veterinary medicine. Looking back, it was pretty emotional, but our health professions adviser asked me to talk at a thing on effective personal statement writing and it worked.
I'm super excited/lucky/blessed!
