I do want to say that I don't personally hate Infinivet, or whatever, but I was hurt and offended by this topic.
I'm on several alternate lists (so I know I'm luckier (literally "luckier," not better) than some!), and my stats pretty average, I guess, but I feel like my stats are such that if I'd said just the right word, or whatever, during one of my interviews, then I'd have gotten in. I don't know, I'm not really too upset about it (I'll apply until I get in!), but I think it really isn't an easy thing to just get into vet school, and I don't really appreciate it when someone just flipantly posts that anyone can do it! Some people who'd make amazing vets just can't get in for whatever reason, so trust me, just because
you can get in, it doesn't mean everyone can (look a the numbers!)! Yes, it may not be impossible, but it is difficult to get in (and often partially due to chance if you do)!!!
Anyway, when I saw the name of the thread, I expected it to be sarcastic. I was so shocked when I saw what was written! After reading the whole thread, I thought, 'hmmm, some of these arguments seem valid [regarding some pre-vets having semi-false info (about a As in orgo, etc)]; Infinivet must be refering to pre-vets when s/he mentions people who have an over-estimation of the difficulty,' BUT when I went back and reread it, when s/he references "EVERYone", I really think s/he means that every single person off the street tells her how hard it is!
AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO CONSTANTLY RUNS INTO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO GET IN?! (I'm not really yelling, I just really wanted to emphasize my point.) I always get people who are like, 'oh yeah, SUNY X (basically, one of NY's state schools) has a great vet school, right?' or 'oh yeah, there are a few good vet schools around here [here = in NY, in upstate NY, etc], right?', and I'm always having to explain to people how Cornell is the only vet school in NY and there are only 28 in the country.
After one such conversation, a friend of mine (pre-med) and I calculated the number of people who attend US vet schools every year to be like 2,400 or 2,500, depending on what the average class size really is (we used like 85 or 90 I think, with 28 US schools). That number is much smaller than the number who attend US medical schools. I recently looked up the number attending US med schools, and it was 17,004 in 2005, and with 125 US med schools, that makes an average class size of 136! Unfortunately, I can't remember the website I used (to back up my claim), but 17,004 is just a bit bigger than 2,400 or 2,500.
Unfortunately, I don't know the total number of vet or med school applicants every year--if someone knows these I'd love to hear the numbers (as well as where you heard them)! But I think there are not enough med school applicants to make the percent getting into med school lower than vet school.
Oh, and did anyone see the Boston Legal episode where they basically said if you got kicked out of med school for doing cocaine, then you could just turn around and be able to get into vet school and settle for being a vet instead?! Pretty sure that it works the other way (
maybe if you were really lucky, you'd be able to get into a med school if you messed up in vet school, but I think basically if you mess up med school (I'm not talking about people who realize they'd rather be vets), there's pretty much no way a vet school would take you. Ugg, I feel like if TV shows are spreading such crap, then people probably don't have that much info on how difficult getting into vet school can be!