How did you get your gpa up, especially the science ?? Did you retake classes or just take additional courses?27 y/o female, Michigan resident, 3rd time's the charm
Applied: Michigan State, Western, Ross
Interview Invites: Michigan State, Western, Ross (declined)
Waiting to hear: Western
Accepted: Michigan State!!!
Attending: Michigan State
Overall GPA: 2.81 <- THIS is what a low GPA actually looks like (my undergrad was 2.64)
Science Prerequisite GPA: 3.5
Last 36 GPA: 3.65
GRE (Q/V/W): 153 (51%)/ 158 (80%)/ 3.0 (17%)
Degree: B.S. in Biology 2014
Veterinary Experience:
Shadow at MSU - 8 hrs
Observatory for Bat Conservation (toured) - 3 hrs
Assisted visiting equine DVMs at Stables - 100 hrs
Shadowed Equine Fertility Specialist (Board certified Theriogenologist) - 75 hrs
Shadow at Small Animal Clinic - 300 hrs
Kennel/Receptionist Assistant at same Small Animal Clinic - 160 hrs
Veterinary Assistant at same Small Animal Clinic - 1600 hrs
Animal Experience:
Horseback Riding - 5000 hrs
Pet Sitting - 150 hrs
Horse Show Competitor - 1000 hrs
President of Equestrian Youth Group - 400 hrs
Groom at Stables - 3300 hrs
Groom/Assistant Trainer at Stables - 6500 hrs
Farm Sitting - 30 hrs
Pet Store Associate - 2500 hrs
Extracurriculars/Awards:
American Saddlebred Horse Association Member
American Saddlebred Horse Association of Michigan Member
Michigan Horse Show Association Member
High School French Club Member
High School Equestrian Team Member/Team Captain
University PVMA Secretary
Dean's List one semester at Community College
Saddleseat Equitation Perpetual Trophy
Prepared for Anything paper plate award from High School Eq. Team
World's Championship Horse Show 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th place over three years
MHSA Division Highpoint Champion 5 years
ASHAM Division Highpoint Champion 5 years
ASHA Pleasure Horse Award State Champion - Michigan - 2 years
Research:
University Research Assistant - Equine Cognitive Bias Study - 30 hrs
Non-Animal Employment:
International Grocery Store Cashier - 620 hrs
LORs:
DVM and Medical Director at Small Animal Clinic - Ross Alumna
*Associate DVM at Small Animal Clinic - MSU Alumna
*DVM - Theriogenologist - Ohio State Alumna
Professor from Community College
*Former co-worker from Stables
*used for MSU - they like you to use letters that reinforce your largest/most important experiences.
Essay Questions/Personal Statement:
1. Discussed how I developed my interest in Theriogenology and how I pursued it, mentioned how I did have other interests and can see myself in many facets of the profession.
2. Emphasized the importance of education, how I developed the skill and the passion for teaching others.
3. Focused on flexibility and continuing education/life-long learning
MSU Questions:
1. Gave examples of how I developed/embodied excellence, compassion, and accountability
2. Told of how my parents postponed retirement and how I worked full-time through undergrad.
I ended up re-taking over 30 credits of courses. One I had to take at my original University, but the others I saved money re-taking at community college. Got 4.0s in about half the courses I re-took. My science GPA only reflects the science and math prerequisites that MSU looks at (which were about 80% retakes).
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Go for the cheapest schoollllllll
Literally the best piece of advice you will ever get before going to vet school
Congrats!!! Welcome to Cornell21 y/o female, New York resident, a 1st-time applicant
Applied: Cornell, Guelph, Illinois, Iowa, LMU, Louisiana, Minnesota, Tufts, Virginia-Maryland
Interview Invites: LMU, Guelph, Minnesota
Waitlisted: Louisiana, Virginia-Maryland (waitlisted for interview), and Tufts (waitlisted for interview)
Waiting to hear: Iowa and Illinois
Accepted: Cornell
Attending: Cornell!!!!
Overall GPA: 3.46
Science GPA: 3.35
GRE (Q/V/W): 157/156/4.0
Degree: B.S. in Biochemistry as of May ‘19
Veterinary Experience:
- Small Animal Veterinary Assistant intern and then employee (2000 hours)
- Large Animal intern (120 hours)
- Equine intern for a week (80 hours)
Animal Experience:
- Pet ownership if we count that (1200 hours)
-Foster of 9 puppies from birth to 8 weeks (560 hours)
- Caretaker of animals from the vet clinic that needed round the clock care came home with me (120 hours)
- Wildlife and exotic intern at a wildlife rehab place (100 hours)
- Helping hand at a dog daycare and horse stables (90 hours)
Extracurriculars/Awards:
- Member of about 6 clubs and treasurer of a rotary club
- About 4 awards for research, study, and honors
-Dean's list every semester except one
-Honors program
- Sunday school teacher for 2 years
-Volunteer chef at Ronald Macdonald house
- High school XC and Track captain
Research:
- Academic research at SUNY Fredonia in the synthesis of organic compounds (102 hours)
Non-Animal Employment:
- Worked at a pizzeria from age 15 to 18. (1800 hours)
-Worked at Barnes and Noble from age 18-20. (Customer service skills are so great to have and this really helped mine) (1800 hours)
-A paid internship at an engineering firm in charge of data collection and organization.
LORs:
- Small Animal DVM that I worked for 2 years with (Awesome letter, she let me keep a copy and it was amazingly sweet and inspirational)
- Large Animal DVM
- Research Professor
- Biochem Professor and advisor
-My employer from Barnes and Noble
(I applied to so many schools and some had specific requirements as to who they wanted letters from. I was not planning on having so many letters.)
Essay Questions/Personal Statement:
Future goals: Emergency Small Animal medicine where I recounted anecdotes from my time as an assistant.
Ways to contribute: I focused on the communication and teaching aspects of veterinarians. Connected it to my customer service skills brought into maturity by retail work and my biochemical background that I have learned to convey to clients at the vet's office.
My attributes: I opened with how a vet I shadowed once told me bitterly that my love of animals wouldn't be enough one day. I then went into talking about my determination and spunk in worst case scenarios. My final line is a part of my objective on my resume: "Veterinary medicine is the field for me, yes because I love animals, but also because I am an analytical mind with a penchant for witty books, scary organic chemistry problems, and calculus questions even Khan Academy doesn't want to touch."
This is one of my first times posting. I would always check out these threads and dismay over my GPA. Now I am so excited to be a part of Cornell's class of 2023 and I hope that I give hope to some of those who may think they don't stand a chance. ---"Don't chase your dreams, run them down."
Congrats to everyone who got in and best wishes for those working on their dream!!!!! You're all wonderful and amazing!!
I actually just started working at the SA ER we have here and it's amazing!!! 
Congrats!!! Welcome to Cornell
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that's wsu for sure unless scholarships are invollved
I assume there’s also the potential for wiche funding since New Mexico resident, but still probs WSU or maybe Oregon State I’d think?
ooooo if that evens the playing field pick CSU
No. CSU still is about 10k more per year for wiche. Do not pick CSU.ooooo if that evens the playing field pick CSU
but yes otherwise wsu will def be cheaper, and more developed than OSU I know...
Midwestern, they're private so do they do wiche?
ooooo if that evens the playing field pick CSU
but yes otherwise wsu will def be cheaper, and more developed than OSU I know...
Midwestern, they're private so do they do wiche?
No idea, I was going off the chart on the vmcas page that lists all of the schools tuitions and their price for wiche applicants which is what I was going by. *shrug*
Heres some prospective from price point. I was a CO resident and I went to WSU because of price. Im saving 30k overall by going to WSU even paying OOS tuition year 1. Yes you will get charged IS price for WSU and CSU. However CSU will go up ~7% every year. It's been like that for years and I dont forsee that changing based on CO economic and political climate. Tuition should be approx 45k per year by the time 2022 rolls around. Also COL in Ft. Collins is more than Pullman. The apartment I'm in right now I pay ~800. The same exact apt in ft Collins goes for ~1200. Yes you can do things like roommates etc but it's still more expensive in CO. Midwestern is by far your most expensive option.
I spoke to my wiche people. Your wiche officer is most correct. So you get charged OOS by each school. Then your wiche disbursed for the difference. If theres still a monetary difference then the school usually scholarships the difference (case of WSU students from AZ). So essentially you are charged the same price as IS. Now the difference between OOS and IS at WSU is greater than CSU but CSU IS is more expensive and I know that the CSU wiche people pay more for their education as my wiche AZ friends have wiche AZ people at CSU. But yes contact the schools to get the best idea of what numbers might look like come fall.
In general the funding from WICHE gives you IS tuition at one of the WICHE schools. CSU is ~10k more per year than WSU or OSU in JUST tuition. Living expenses will be higher as well. CoA for an IS student at CSU was $56k this year, WSU was $44k. WSU also has had very stable tuition, and last year was the first increase is something like 6 years, and they don't plan to increase it this year again as far as I know. CSU tution WILL increase every year. But even if it didn't that $12k difference will be $48k over four years. That's a BIG difference.
I honestly cannot even comprehend the fact that I get to post this:
OOS, New Mexico, 1st time applicant, 22 years old.
Applied: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Colorado State University, Midwestern University
Interview Invites: Colorado State University, Midwestern University
Rejected: None (I literally cannot even believe it!)
Accepted: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Colorado State University, Midwestern University. OMGGGGGGG!!!!!!
Attending: PLEASE HELP ME DECIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall undergrad GPA: 3.93
Science GPA: 3.81
Math GPA: 4.00
Last 45: 3.97
GRE (Q/V/W) -- 149/151/4.5 (super bad huh???? Lol)
Undergrad degree-- Biology B.S. with minor in Chem
Awards/Honors
Summa cum laude in HS and undergrad
Deans list all 8 semesters
Honor society member
Class valedictorian IN HS
LORs
I had 6 letters in total
DVM I interned with
DVM I work with
4 Professors from my school who knew me VERY well (Genetics prof., Biochemistry prof., prof. who I did research with, and prof. from animal science course)
Experience:
Vet hours (850 hours)
Shelter Clinic Volunteer ~500 hours
Vet assistant at a vet hospital — 350 hours to application date (I have about 1000 hours in total now)
Animal Experience hours (~1200 hours in total)
Shelter volunteer -- ~1000 hours
Kennel assistant at same vet hospital — 200 hours
Exotics — 90 hours
Foster (bottle feeding, etc) — 70
Volunteer:
Volunteering with homeless shelters — 300 hours
Foster children tutor — 200 hours
High school experience:
Student council Vice President and President — 250 hours
Student body president — 36 hours
Non-animal related work experience:
Frozen yogurt store — 2000 hours
Research
Ecosystem science intern and presenter at annual science presentation — 150 hours
Essays:
I just talked about how I have wanted to be a vet since I was raised in a rural community and that I want to give back to my community. I especially talked about how devoted and passionate I am about animal health.
Interviews:
In my interviews I really made it a point to draw from all my experience, not just vet med related experience. I talked about how volunteering with the homeless has even shown me how vet med is important in that community and how I have gained skills even from working at a froyo shop.
For future (or current) applicants, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. I would love to talk.
You’re looking at the wrong chart on that page. You need to look at the Pullman one for WA, ID, and WICHE. Those are the rates you’ll be charged after WICHE funding. WSU does give scholarships to make sure WICHE has IS tuition if funding doesn’t cover the difference.So is the tuition on WSU’s page just incorrect, possibly?
Because the out of state tuition that I see at the link http://dvm.vetmed.wsu.edu/finances/cost-of-attendance
says that the Pullman campus OOS tuition is $63,112 (for tuition ONLY).
So I would be being charged the OOS tuition all four years and WICHE would be just giving me the money to bring that tuition down.
Tuition ONLY at Midwestern is $61,921 which appears to be less than OOS at WSU.
Do I just literally not understand the way WICHE works?
I feel very, very confused now.
Because it seems that tuition at MWU would be less than tuition at WSU.
I honestly cannot even comprehend the fact that I get to post this:
OOS, New Mexico, 1st time applicant, 22 years old.
Applied: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Colorado State University, Midwestern University
Interview Invites: Colorado State University, Midwestern University
Rejected: None (I literally cannot even believe it!)
Accepted: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Colorado State University, Midwestern University. OMGGGGGGG!!!!!!
Attending: PLEASE HELP ME DECIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall undergrad GPA: 3.93
Science GPA: 3.81
Math GPA: 4.00
Last 45: 3.97
GRE (Q/V/W) -- 149/151/4.5 (super bad huh???? Lol)
Undergrad degree-- Biology B.S. with minor in Chem
Awards/Honors
Summa cum laude in HS and undergrad
Deans list all 8 semesters
Honor society member
Class valedictorian IN HS
LORs
I had 6 letters in total
DVM I interned with
DVM I work with
4 Professors from my school who knew me VERY well (Genetics prof., Biochemistry prof., prof. who I did research with, and prof. from animal science course)
Experience:
Vet hours (850 hours)
Shelter Clinic Volunteer ~500 hours
Vet assistant at a vet hospital — 350 hours to application date (I have about 1000 hours in total now)
Animal Experience hours (~1200 hours in total)
Shelter volunteer -- ~1000 hours
Kennel assistant at same vet hospital — 200 hours
Exotics — 90 hours
Foster (bottle feeding, etc) — 70
Volunteer:
Volunteering with homeless shelters — 300 hours
Foster children tutor — 200 hours
High school experience:
Student council Vice President and President — 250 hours
Student body president — 36 hours
Non-animal related work experience:
Frozen yogurt store — 2000 hours
Research
Ecosystem science intern and presenter at annual science presentation — 150 hours
Essays:
I just talked about how I have wanted to be a vet since I was raised in a rural community and that I want to give back to my community. I especially talked about how devoted and passionate I am about animal health.
Interviews:
In my interviews I really made it a point to draw from all my experience, not just vet med related experience. I talked about how volunteering with the homeless has even shown me how vet med is important in that community and how I have gained skills even from working at a froyo shop.
For future (or current) applicants, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. I would love to talk.
iirc they were accepted early to WSU without an interview since they’re a wiche applicant with high stats.
SO HAPPY FOR YOU!
I'll get over it !!
Haha it was the thing I had the most control of! Had to make up for my GPA.You have a CRAZY good number and diversity of experiences!!! Hats off to you
Just curious, what was being an ASPCA responder like? It sounds really interesting!
