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So I have both of my letters for "confirming 10 days of vet and animal experience" for my RVC interview. I wrote them and sent them to both of the vets I worked with and whom wrote my reference letters, and they were more than happy to print them on the letterhead and sign them.
This is what RVC said about me using two vets as my confirmation letters: "The reference letters can be from the same people who have written VMCAS letters. You can bring both veterinarian references so we can decide if we would be able to count one of the placements towards the other animal requirement. If not, this will not affect the outcome of your interview but we may ask for more other animal experience in any offer we make you."
Sort of frustrating given I have over 17 years experience working with horses, but I put that on old 2 years ago to pursue vet school/stop being horse poor. So I cannot get a letter from an old coach etc...
I also cannot get a letter from the wildlife rehab place I volunteered at two summers ago because I am away at university and will not be able to drive the 3 hours to pick up an original copy of the signed letter, nor will the extremely busy and overrun rehab centre be able to find the time to write and personally mail the letter to me before I leave november 11th, I wish RVC could have told us to have these ready in the event that we did receive an interview, I would have been so much more prepared....
But maybe it isn't actually all the important and I am stressing about this for no reason!
This is what RVC said about me using two vets as my confirmation letters: "The reference letters can be from the same people who have written VMCAS letters. You can bring both veterinarian references so we can decide if we would be able to count one of the placements towards the other animal requirement. If not, this will not affect the outcome of your interview but we may ask for more other animal experience in any offer we make you."
Sort of frustrating given I have over 17 years experience working with horses, but I put that on old 2 years ago to pursue vet school/stop being horse poor. So I cannot get a letter from an old coach etc...
I also cannot get a letter from the wildlife rehab place I volunteered at two summers ago because I am away at university and will not be able to drive the 3 hours to pick up an original copy of the signed letter, nor will the extremely busy and overrun rehab centre be able to find the time to write and personally mail the letter to me before I leave november 11th, I wish RVC could have told us to have these ready in the event that we did receive an interview, I would have been so much more prepared....
But maybe it isn't actually all the important and I am stressing about this for no reason!