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Yay, it's the IS applicants' turns! Good luck 🙂
 
Another in-stater here, and I got an interview!!!!! I'd pretty much written myself off for this cycle after getting two rejections from other schools, but I guess it's not over til it's over! I feel so unprepared because it's less than 3 weeks away (the 24th) and my academic score is on the weak side so I need to really wow them, but interviews have never been my strong suit. 😕 Oh well, if I bomb it I've got a lot of room for improvement for the next application cycle!
 
Finally heard back. On the waitlist :/ oh well at least I know!
 
Congrats LyraGardenia and razzledazzleme! 🙂 I haven't received a letter regarding invitations yet... hopefully it comes soon! :luck:
 
Congrats to those who've gotten IS interviews! Ashgirl- I'm sure yours will come here soon 🙂
 
Congrats on your interview, Ashgirl!!

Yay WolvesDragons!! So exciting (and worth the wait!) 😀
 
Just curious...Where do the vet students usually live? Is there any preferred complex or neighborhood, i.e pet friendly and close to campus?
 
We are all spread out over Columbia. It depends on your preferences. I don't personally know of any areas that lots of us live in. I live about 10-15 minutes from campus (depending on traffic). I'm on the south side of town in a duplex with two first year roomies. I like where we live- it's fairly cheap, an easy drive to the school, everything we need is down here, and we can have as many pets as we please. Feel free to pm me and I'll send you the website of our landlords. The only bad thing is that they can be a pain (sometimes) to come fix minor stuff. Anything major has been fixed very easily! We even got a brand new washer/dryer and then later on a brand new dishwasher 🙂 As a general rule- stay away from the north side of town. Though, you can find good areas- I just hear that it can be a bit more 'rough' up there.
Some students choose to live pretty close to the school- not sure what those complexes or areas are. I think it is nice to be a bit farther away from the college campus/downtown area. You want to be sure you live about 15 minutes away or less (because for your clinical years you will be on call and have to get to the school pretty quick). I also did not go the apartment route because I wanted a fenced in backyard. Our is pretty tiny, yes, but it is super nice to have a fence!
And another note- stay away from any of the big apartment complexes- they are going to be geared towards undergrads and you DO NOT want to live in a place with a ton of undergrads. If you are looking for a place with an animal- sometimes it can help if you say you are a veterinary student- so don't be afraid to throw that around 😉 Hopefully that was helpful. I'm sorry I don't know any areas people live- I basically just know mine 😛
 
Thanks Rainheart! I would love the landlord's website. I am so new to this website though and I don't know how to privately message people. Can you message me and that way if I have anymore questions about how you found your place, I can just message you that way..?
 
Sure of course! Feel free to send me a message anytime about anything! That goes for anyone on SDN 🙂
 
Couldn't have said it better, Rainheart. I live on the North side of town, and there are quite a few of us up here. We're about 10-15 minutes (closer to 10) and it's considerably cheaper here too. As long as you stay away from campus, you should be fine. I carpool with a couple girls that live especially close to me, and it works out really well for the most part (not so much this block). On a side note, I'm super excited to get a little. Just sayin...
 
current mizzou students.. have you found it challenging at all to become a resident and get in-state tuition?
 
I've heard from the classes above us- if you want to gain residency (which almost everyone does) everyone that wants to does. The main thing is finding a job to make $2000- which most do over the summer. There are tons of opportunities and during the year and during the summer just through the school alone. I don't think it will be a problem. (Come on, you know you want to come to Mizzou!!) I already got my license changed over easily one afternoon and registered to vote here. No need to change my car tags because they are also in my mom's name (if they are solely in your name, you need to).

Wanted to add for those wondering- I know Ohio state has some stipulations that you cannot recieve any outside help from parents, family, or whoever on anything. Mizzou is not like that- so if you are concerned, you shouldn't be. We've got pretty laid back rules. I've also heard that if you don't make the $2000 over the summer, I think you've got until November of your second year to finish making it. We only have a 6 week long summer, but during IP5 (the block in May and June) the schedule is nicely set up to work a job (ie- getting out early!) There is a research program you all may want to look into for next year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for it this year and it makes you well over what you need for in-state!
http://www.cvm.missouri.edu/vrs/index.htm
 
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I've heard from the classes above us- if you want to gain residency (which almost everyone does) everyone that wants to does. The main thing is finding a job to make $2000- which most do over the summer. There are tons of opportunities and during the year and during the summer just through the school alone. I don't think it will be a problem. (Come on, you know you want to come to Mizzou!!) I already got my license changed over easily one afternoon and registered to vote here. No need to change my car tags because they are also in my mom's name (if they are solely in your name, you need to).
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haha awesome! just making sure it won't be too difficult
 
cowdoctr said:
haha awesome! just making sure it won't be too difficult
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It's something that I'm stressing about about right now- but mainly just not knowing my plans for summer yet. I just want them to tell us if I'm in for the research program this summer or not (so if not, I can start looking into other things). Banfield does a student job program I also applied for as my backup, but you've got to find your own housing for that (in St. Louis, mostly).
 
For what it's worth, I've never heard of anybody failing to gain residency. Also, the research program is awesome (not that I'm biased or anything).
 
And from experience, it is super duper easy to get residency if you're married. I was able to get resident status for this whole first year because my wife has a job. I didn't need to do half of the things the other students needed for their residency.
 
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One more question...can you guys talk about the things you don't like about Mizzou, if any?
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Sure thing! I'll expand upon the things I wrote in the "factors when picking a school" thread.

First off, we have a lecture-based curriculum, which is fine and it gets the job done, but having done 5 years of undergrad in a field where rote memorization wasn't a requirement, jumping to hours and hours and hours of lectures and death by ppt where I was expected to memorize so much information was just painful. I was worn out and having difficulty paying much attention by the time I got to the last several instructional periods.

Because we get "2" years of clinics (more like 1.5 years), we have shorter summers. It works, but it hurts a little to see people at other schools getting out for summer when you still have 8 weeks of class left...

The only time before clinics where electives are offered is during the block right before you start rotating through the VMTH.

There really isn't an exotics caseload at the teaching hospital, and there aren't plans to add anything. You really have to pursue it in externships and preceptorships.

There is a minimal number of private study rooms at the vet school. This left my friends and I with study locations such as Culver's or McDonald's when we just needed to study by ourselves without interruption from classmates.

You are assigned a week to clean microwaves/fridges/the anatomy lab as a first year. Not that this should keep you from coming here. I just thought a heads up about this expectation would have been nice, because my class didn't get one until we got an angry email about dirty microwaves 😛

There is plenty of traffic here. I've had friends arrive late to class in the first week even though they live 2 miles from school and left 35 mins before class started. It does usually calm down after the 2nd week or so.
 
Thanks for asking that cowdoctr and thanks for answering scb! This will definitely be helpful when I make the decision of where to go, I've been having anxiety thinking about making a choice so I'm putting it off until I hear from everywhere (not that I am complaining that I have this problem).
 
Some things to add about what I also don't like here-
I don't think we have the best clubs- the ones I joined aren't very active at all. The one that is (bovine club) I haven't been able to get into anything I wanted to yet because I'm a first year (or not quick enough signing up with an email). The other club I'm in had one meeting in October and that's been it. It's been a pain to get some things done with them. I really wish there was a Therio club... but I hear they might be working on forming one.

The first few blocks here really stink- just in terms of being here almost all day (especially this block). I'm sure that it is comparable to other schools sometimes, but we also do have the block schedule, so it could be different. We've had an average of about 3 exams a week in this block (sometimes more, or less) so it's been a bit rough adjusting to the blocks. I don't think it should scare anyone off, but it does wear you down.

Undergrads... it will be so nice come block 5 when they won't be here.

Parking can be a pain for VM-1's since we park fairly far away the first year. 2nd year is much closer. The only time it sucks is walking far to get to class when it is zero degrees or less out.

About Columbia in general- they have no idea how to prep for snow storms at all...

If I think of any more later, I'll add them. Overall, I really do enjoy it here- I think more than I would if I had gone to my IS school. I do like the block schedule of only juggling 6 classes at a time rather than more at a semester school. It is still a ton of work, but I think it fits my learning style better. I also like the more of a lecture based system here- PBL is not for me.

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Something my roomie brought up- our anatomy lab can feel a bit crowded with all 120 of us in it at once. We also have 3 hour labs 3x a week first semester and 4x a week in the spring (which, for me personally, 3 hours is way too long).
 
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Some things to add about what I also don't like here-
I don't think we have the best clubs- the ones I joined aren't very active at all. The one that is (bovine club) I haven't been able to get into anything I wanted to yet because I'm a first year (or not quick enough signing up with an email). The other club I'm in had one meeting in October and that's been it. It's been a pain to get some things done with them. I really wish there was a Therio club... but I hear they might be working on forming one.

The first few blocks here really stink- just in terms of being here almost all day (especially this block). I'm sure that it is comparable to other schools sometimes, but we also do have the block schedule, so it could be different. We've had an average of about 3 exams a week in this block (sometimes more, or less) so it's been a bit rough adjusting to the blocks. I don't think it should scare anyone off, but it does wear you down.

Undergrads... it will be so nice come block 5 when they won't be here.

Parking can be a pain for VM-1's since we park fairly far away the first year. 2nd year is much closer. The only time it sucks is walking far to get to class when it is zero degrees or less out.

About Columbia in general- they have no idea how to prep for snow storms at all...

If I think of any more later, I'll add them. Overall, I really do enjoy it here- I think more than I would if I had gone to my IS school. I do like the block schedule of only juggling 6 classes at a time rather than more at a semester school. It is still a ton of work, but I think it fits my learning style better. I also like the more of a lecture based system here- PBL is not for me.

Add:
Something my roomie brought up- our anatomy lab can feel a bit crowded with all 120 of us in it at once. We also have 3 hour labs 3x a week first semester and 4x a week in the spring (which, for me personally, 3 hours is way too long).
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Yes to all of these. I did really appreciate having just a few classes to focus on at a time, even if some of them were held 5x/week.

And about the anatomy lab... yes, it does get very crowded. There were many times when I just didn't feel up for the drain of being in a noisy room, so I went up to the computer lab to look at pictures, or read on my own.
 
Things that are annoying:
Parking/walking to class in -10000 degrees. Supposedly this year is unseasonably cold, but it's still rude.
Having exams at 7am (infrequently) and 8am (frequently).
Having 5-6 exams every few weeks first semester and then 2-4 exams every week this block = bleh. I personally like this block a little better with several exams every week than absolute hellish weeks every few weeks, but that's just me.
Being scheduled to be in class ALL day. I honestly don't mind that we have lecture based learning, it's not fun, but it gets the job done.
It kind of blows having short summers, but at least first year as an OOS student I don't mind quite so much because I have to be here for all but 2 weeks anyways to gain residency.

And now for PRO TIPS!
If you come here, just prepare yourself mentally for the excruciating horror that is first semester. You're going to cry a lot, but you're going to come out the other end a better person. I thought about dropping out at least twice a month. Even though this block sucks too, it's definitely better, and I've been told it's better from here. I think there are just less things that suck all your time (like anatomy and histo).
GET DRUNK after anatomy exams first semester. They are always on Friday after a hell week of exams and all you're going to want to do is go home and sleep, but seriously go out and get real drunk. You need to blow of steam or you will explode. Also there's a super duper special surprise after the first anatomy exam.
I don't go to a lot of classes. Last semester I went to 80-90%, but I'm probably only going to ~50% right now. This is seriously what keeps me sane. Our class schedule sucks balls this semester, 8-4 or 6 Monday, 9-5 or 6 Tuesday, 8-4 or 6 Wed, 9-1 Thursday (plus possible lab in the afternoon), 8-1 Friday (plus possible lab in the afternoon). If I went to all our classes I'm pretty sure I would be in the fetal position in the corner. I don't know how other people in our class do it. I can listen to our recorded lectures (audio and visual) at double speed and get everything done in half the time in the comfort of my own bed. I used to feel really guilty about it, but I am doing WAY better in this semester by not going to classes and keeping myself sane than I was last semester.
Find things to do that keep you sane. For me, that is honestly just laying in bed and watching TV and occasionally going to the pottery studio on campus (which is awesome! I highly recommend that). For other people that's sports, or going to the gym, or art stuff, or whatever.
If you have the option to, try to find an opportunity in the teaching hospital. Not sure how superb our after hours crew tech assistant position is, but I volunteer on a research project and it has been fantastic to get to know some of the doctors and techs and get to know my way around there.

Honestly, as much as there are things that are sometimes super annoying, there aren't any deal breakers for me here. There isn't really anything that I say, wow, I really wish I knew that before coming here. Vet school sucks a lot I think no matter where you go. You may be one of the lucky few that likes it or at least can tolerate it, but I really think it's all about your perspective. For me, I treat my sanity as my number one priority. I'm fortunate in that I can sacrifice studying time and still do well enough. But there is a serious balance between your sanity, time in class, and time studying and something has to give. There just aren't enough hours in a day to do all three perfectly.
 
wildcatj said:
Things that are annoying:
Parking/walking to class in -10000 degrees. Supposedly this year is unseasonably cold, but it's still rude.
Having exams at 7am (infrequently) and 8am (frequently).
Having 5-6 exams every few weeks first semester and then 2-4 exams every week this block = bleh. I personally like this block a little better with several exams every week than absolute hellish weeks every few weeks, but that's just me.
Being scheduled to be in class ALL day. I honestly don't mind that we have lecture based learning, it's not fun, but it gets the job done.
It kind of blows having short summers, but at least first year as an OOS student I don't mind quite so much because I have to be here for all but 2 weeks anyways to gain residency.

And now for PRO TIPS!
If you come here, just prepare yourself mentally for the excruciating horror that is first semester. You're going to cry a lot, but you're going to come out the other end a better person. I thought about dropping out at least twice a month. Even though this block sucks too, it's definitely better, and I've been told it's better from here. I think there are just less things that suck all your time (like anatomy and histo).
GET DRUNK after anatomy exams first semester. They are always on Friday after a hell week of exams and all you're going to want to do is go home and sleep, but seriously go out and get real drunk. You need to blow of steam or you will explode. Also there's a super duper special surprise after the first anatomy exam.
I don't go to a lot of classes. Last semester I went to 80-90%, but I'm probably only going to ~50% right now. This is seriously what keeps me sane. Our class schedule sucks balls this semester, 8-4 or 6 Monday, 9-5 or 6 Tuesday, 8-4 or 6 Wed, 9-1 Thursday (plus possible lab in the afternoon), 8-1 Friday (plus possible lab in the afternoon). If I went to all our classes I'm pretty sure I would be in the fetal position in the corner. I don't know how other people in our class do it. I can listen to our recorded lectures (audio and visual) at double speed and get everything done in half the time in the comfort of my own bed. I used to feel really guilty about it, but I am doing WAY better in this semester by not going to classes and keeping myself sane than I was last semester.
Find things to do that keep you sane. For me, that is honestly just laying in bed and watching TV and occasionally going to the pottery studio on campus (which is awesome! I highly recommend that). For other people that's sports, or going to the gym, or art stuff, or whatever.
If you have the option to, try to find an opportunity in the teaching hospital. Not sure how superb our after hours crew tech assistant position is, but I volunteer on a research project and it has been fantastic to get to know some of the doctors and techs and get to know my way around there.

Honestly, as much as there are things that are sometimes super annoying, there aren't any deal breakers for me here. There isn't really anything that I say, wow, I really wish I knew that before coming here. Vet school sucks a lot I think no matter where you go. You may be one of the lucky few that likes it or at least can tolerate it, but I really think it's all about your perspective. For me, I treat my sanity as my number one priority. I'm fortunate in that I can sacrifice studying time and still do well enough. But there is a serious balance between your sanity, time in class, and time studying and something has to give. There just aren't enough hours in a day to do all three perfectly.
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I got to most of the classes. And I like it most of the time. And also, for anatomy lab this semester, I spend wayyyyy less time in there than scheduled. Mainly because we saw most of the same structures in IP1 and 2. It's not necessary for me to spend 12 freakin hours a week in there. And for de-stressing after anatomy exams, I have to conquer that yes, getting real drunk is a good idea.
 
Hey! I had a question about the rabies vaccine. Does Mizzou offer a rabies clinic at all during the first few months of school? If so, does anyone know the cost of the 3 series vaccine if they provide it? Thanks
 
Yes, the folks from the hospital come over and do it sometime in October (for all 3 injections). I felt it was much easier to get it done that way (and honestly, cheaper than if I had done it through the health department at home before I came home). My insurance wouldn't cover it (annoying) but it cost about $800 total.
 
Thanks! Also, do students get a discount on veterinary services and/or products like flea/tick control? Or are you better going off to a local hospital for stuff?
 
There is a discount at the teaching hospital, though I'm not sure how much it is, exactly. There are some local hospitals around here that do give discounts to vet students, too! I live about 2 houses from a vet clinic, so I've just ended up going to them. We have gotten some free flea/tick and heartworm things so far, so that happens maybe twice a year.
 
I agree with a lot that has been said above. I just wanted to add a few things...

I LOVEEEEE MIZZZOU!!!! 😀

Really though, I do love it here. The long days suck. The walk to the building sucks, but I wouldnt change a darn thing if it meant I couldnt be in vet school, and I still would not go to my instate school, nope- no way.

Mizzou really is a special school. We have an Amazing faculty. They go above and beyond the call of duty every week. They are always willing to help and make themselves more than available outside of classroom hours. One of our anatomy professors came into the lab on sunday and was helping students before our anatomy exam the very next day! We also have micro reviews pretty much every weekend with one of the micro professors.. I think that alone says a lot about our faculty.

They also participate in fun activities that are not related to class- for example: this week the VM1s hosted a valentines breakfast as a class fundraiser. For the fundraiser, 3 of our professors agreed to "run" for cupid, meaning we had cans set out for people to put money in and whichever professor had the most money had to dress up as cupid for the valentines breakfast. Our poor micro professor wore a tutu and a mask and a pink shirt during the breakfast and took pictures with students. (Check out the official Vet School FB page for proof!! :laugh: ) During Christmas an anatomy professor dressed up as the grinch and took pictures with students and their pets. Yea these things may not seem very important, but when you spend every waking moment at the school with these professors, things like this make life a little better.

I know Rainheart touched on Clubs, and everyones going to have a different perspective, but the majority of the clubs I am in meet regularly (SCAVMA, VBMA, SCEVCCS) and the one club that doesn't meet often is dental club, but instead of having monthly meetings dental club does 3 dental labs a year- an extraction lab (which was EPIC!!), and 2 dental Radiology labs. I am also getting a business certificate through VBMA.. So it definitely depends on what club you are in for sure.

and can I just add, Is it College football season yet?!?!?! I cant wait to tailgate and support my Tigers this fall!!

As always, anyone can shoot me a message, and I encourage you all to join the MU CVM Class of 2018 FB page!!
 
I loved Mizzou so much... If I had only been accepted there I would have gone in a heart beat. But then I got accepted to my IS... I would be coming out with over $100000 less in debt and would be 5 hrs from my fiancé and family rather than 17. I am having a hard time making the decision. All of the vets I know have been continually pointing out to me the fact that they make less than $50000 a year and that with interest my loans will build up exponentially. I know both are good schools, and even though I think the program at Mizzou has a lot more perks, I can't ignore the price difference. If it was just me maybe, but when I get married my fiancé also takes on my debt. So I think that I may be giving up my seat at a Mizzou within the next week, and giving someone on the alternate list the opportunity to attend the amazing program here.
 
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I loved Mizzou so much... If I had only been accepted there I would have gone in a heart beat. But then I got accepted to my IS... I would be coming out with over $100000 less in debt and would be 5 hrs from my fiancé and family rather than 17. I am having a hard time making the decision. All of the vets I know have been continually pointing out to me the fact that they make less than $50000 a year and that with interest my loans will build up exponentially. I know both are good schools, and even though I think the program at Mizzou has a lot more perks, I can't ignore the price difference. If it was just me maybe, but when I get married my fiancé also takes on my debt. So I think that I may be giving up my seat at a Mizzou within the next week, and giving someone on the alternate list the opportunity to attend the amazing program here.
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Dont take this the wrong way, but how are you calculating the $100,000 difference?!? Using the AAVMC tuition map for Va-Md (assuming your from Md from your profile tag thing) / Mizzou, it is "only" (lol) about a $20,000 difference. and thats if you take the entire loan amount allotted as the "cost of attendance".... Living here in Columbia Is soooo cheap that im living off 10,000 LESS than what the school allotted us for "personal expenses" meaning you could easily make up that $20,000 price difference in the first 2 years alone!!... And As far as the distance goes, yea 17 hours is a long way away, but unless you live an hour away from your family, you arent gonna see much of them anyways. Anything more than an hour or two is just too far to go on a weekend when you have a full week of exams the coming week... Just a thought!
 
Unless you're calculating that you'll be out of state all 4 years at Mizzou (hopefully you're aware that you gain residency after first year), there's no way there's a 100k difference.
 
Berate me (I am berating myself). I calculated wrong. One of my spreadsheet formulas was typed in incorrectly. This makes things more muddled :-/ Thank you for correcting me!! Now I am back to the same rough pros and cons list. When calculated correctly (including average rent, cost of food, etc.) it ends up being approximately a $10,000 difference. One zero off there 😛
 
One of those moments where you feel like a total dumb*#%. I am going to blame it on too many exams haha
 
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Unless you're calculating that you'll be out of state all 4 years at Mizzou (hopefully you're aware that you gain residency after first year), there's no way there's a 100k difference.
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So I totally emailed you this morning about your place for rent and had no idea it was you lol SDN is an amazingly weird and cool place lol
 
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So I totally emailed you this morning about your place for rent and had no idea it was you lol SDN is an amazingly weird and cool place lol
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:roflcopter:

It'ssss a smalll world after allll....
 
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