Second time applicant, 23 years old, OR resident (recently moved to OR this year for employment and BF) and VA resident, BS in Animal Science c/o 2011 (GPA at the time was a 3.19)
---------------------First Cycle, c/o 2016:
Applied: Oregon State (OOS), VMRCVM (IS), Iowa State, Kansas State, Illinois, Tufts, Florida, Auburn, Penn, Minnesota, Purdue
Rejected: VMRCVM (IS), Iowa State, Kansas State, Illinois, Tufts, Florida, Auburn, Penn, Minnesota, Purdue (so lets say practically everywhere)
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nterview Waitlist (until nothing opens up, then to be rejected): Iowa State
Waitlisted: Oregon State
Retook 2 semesters of physics to improve from C+s to As
some schools average (Av.) the scores, some replace the scores (R.), some wont look at them (Nada).
Cumulative GPA: 3.25 - 3.3
Science GPA: depends on the school, 3.1 is probably the average evaluation for me
Last 45 GPA: 3.47
GRE: Q-570 (40%), V-540 (73%), W-3.5 (26%)
I took it 3x at this point
---------------------Second Cycle, c/o 2017:
Applied: Oregon State (IS), VMRCVM (IS), Iowa State, Kansas State, Western, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State
Interview Waitlist (until nothing opens up, then to be rejected): Kansas State (declined before they would reject me officially), VMRCVM
Rejected: VMRCVM, Oklahoma State
Interviews: Oregon State, Iowa State, Mississippi State (declined), Western
Waitlisted: Iowa State
Accepted: Western, Oregon State, Iowa State (off of Waitlist)
Attending: OREGON STATE!!!!!
Finished some prerequisites then retook biochemistry to improve from C to A-. Some schools average (Av.) the scores, some replace the scores (R.), some wont look at them (Nada).
Cumulative GPA: 3.3(Av.) - 3.4(R.)
Science GPA: VMRCVM(Nada)-2.9, Iowa State(Av.)-3.12, Oregon State(R.?)-calculates multiple science GPAs, Kansas State(R.)-3.26, Mississippi(R.)-?, Oklahoma-?, Western(R.)->3.3?
Last 45 GPA: 3.67 (ISU for sure) or 3.85 (depends on the schools policy)
GRE: Q-154 (60%), V-154 (61%), W-4 (49%)
my 4th try.
Veterinary Experience:
5000 hours of SA preventative med
650 hours of oncology research (studying cancer in dogs as a translational model for humans)
460 hours of equine emergency, some volunteering but mostly working as an operating room assistant
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350 hours of non-human primate research at time of interviews, didnt have this experience when I submitted my application this year (I tried to insert this information into the interviews)
240 hours at time of application
**(total of 420 at time of interviews) SA emergency medicine, also received exposure to wildlife and exotics at this practice
135 hours of parasitology research (studied parasitic loads of piscivorous birds)
60 hours of internal medicine shadowing
30 hours of oncology shadowing
Animal Experience:
100+ hours of horseback riding and volunteering at a pay-to-ride
135 hours of working at a parrot specialty store where we hand reared chicks
70 hours of volunteer therapeutic horseback riding
A number of hours pet sitting SA, snakes, and birds
Other Experience:
70 hours as a docent for the forensic anthropology exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History
25 hours as a volunteer teachers assistant at the SMART (Saturday Morning Art) program at my university
Honors/Awards honors:
Published as co-author for parasitology research
Presented oncology research at the Undergraduate Research Forum
Honor roll for the last few semesters of undergraduate education
Listed things from high school like attending the governors school for visual arts, congressional recognition for visual art, photograph selected for AOL calendar, honorable mention at the county art show, elected president of NAHS
eLORS:
DVM from SA preventive medicine I had worked with for 8 years
DVM from SA prevenative medicine I had worked with for 4 years
DVM/PhD Veterinary Oncology Professor I had known from my research for 5 years
Biotechnology Professor
Parasitology/Independent study Professor
The hard work pays off!!! I promise