Vet school here I come....

[yalepa99]

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I am a PA. I've worked in Emergency Medicine since graduating Yale's PA school in 1999. I knew at the time I didn't enjoy human medicine, but at that time, I was married and the goal was to get out of school, make a good living, and practice medicine.

Since then, I have divorced my wonderful, beautiful wife (I'm gay) and have decided to do what I REALLY want to do, and have wanted to do since I was a kid, that being veterinary medicine. I'm leaving a job that makes $100,000+ per year to do what want. At some point in your life, you have to stop waking ap and going to work with the sole motivation being that it pays your mortgage. I bet a lot of you can identify.

I've been accepted at Iowa State University and am 4th alternate at University of Wisconsin. Either way, I know I am going to have the privilege of working in animal medicine, and that thrills me!

Congrats to all who have gone through this LONG process and have been accepted to vet school.

My best,

Brad

 

[holdencaulfield]

I am a PA. I've worked in Emergency Medicine since graduating Yale's PA school in 1999. I knew at the time I didn't enjoy human medicine, but at that time, I was married and the goal was to get out of school, make a good living, and practice medicine.

Since then, I have divorced my wonderful, beautiful wife (I'm gay) and have decided to do what I REALLY want to do, and have wanted to do since I was a kid, that being veterinary medicine. I'm leaving a job that makes $100,000+ per year to do what want. At some point in your life, you have to stop waking ap and going to work with the sole motivation being that it pays your mortgage. I bet a lot of you can identify.

I've been accepted at Iowa State University and am 4th alternate at University of Wisconsin. Either way, I know I am going to have the privilege of working in animal medicine, and that thrills me!

Congrats to all who have gone through this LONG process and have been accepted to vet school.

My best,

Brad

The very best vet I know graduated from Iowa state...congrats to you! It's nice to know, even if final decisions aren't made, at the end of all this we'll be vets (I'll be at Tufts or Colorado). Best of luck!

 

[weeziefive]

I attended a pre-vet symposium at Iowa State and I really liked the school. If you get a chance you should try to check out NVSL(National Veterinary Services Laboratory) its awesome. My friend and I enjoyed their alkaline phosphate tank. The word enjoyed doesnt do it justice, it was freaking bitchinn! Im happy to hear that you are persuing your dreams, many people forget about their dreams and never get a chance to attain them. Congrats! For myself vet school has always been my dream, and I have had a lot of bumps, bruises and have been flat kicked on my ass. I think thats why getting in was so much more exciting for me then others. I hope the feeling is the same with you. Good luck with all you do!

 

[SkyeDJR]

Oh, I can definitely relate! I was an MD and doing well in a General Surgery residency when I realized that I simply could NOT turn my back on my lifelong dream of vet med. So I switched to a Family Med residency, earned board certification in Family Med and Emerg Med, then went to vet school (and used my MD to pay for my DVM training).

Right from DVM year 1 to year 4 to graduation (May 2003), I kept pinching myself that I was actually IN vet school after all of the trials & tribulations I'd been through in my lifelong pursuit of a veterinary career. I'm now finishing a 3-year residency in Zoo Medicine & Pathology, and I LOVE it.

Congrats on your acceptance to vet school. If you're anything like me, you'll be grinning like the cat that ate the canary throughout vet school and beyond.

Skye

 

[zufuss]

Good to hear. I've been trying to get in for the past 2 years. This year I got my first interviews at a few schools. Although the only thing I have left going for me now is my "HOLD" status at UPENN... Oh well. I am already applying for some new jobs to get more experience. If I get accepted to UPENN I think I am going to defer and take another year off.

I don't really see a rush to get into vet school. If I had gotten in straight out of college I would have probably focused on small animal because thats what I thought I wanted to do. Now that I have had 2 years off I've completely changed the direction of the tract i want to follow. And, for me personally, it doesn't really matter if its this year, or the next.

Its still been quite a B@tch getting in though. Very stressful.

 

[yalepa99]

I must say I have been fortunate. I got my Bachelor's in Biology from University of WI then made it into PA school on my first try. And on top of that it was Yale! I say that a little in jest, as I was impressed with Yale for about a week. Then I realized it was a school like any other school, with the occasional poor lecturer, the poorly written tests, etc. So, the one thing I learned was that the "name" of the school means very little!! Whether its PA school, vet school, med school....whatever. Everybody ends up doing the same job as everyone else in that field.

I've also been fortunate to get into vet school on my first attempt as well. I feel for you folks who know what your dream is and are trying your damndest to make it happen, and things just aren't moving fast enough. The waiting is the worst part!

 

[Shlomo]

Hi Skydjr

how old were you when you started the vet studies?

 

[yalepa99]

I just turned 33 and I'll start vet school this fall.