22 y/o female, Colorado resident, a 1st-time applicant
Applied: Colorado State, North Carolina State, Oregon State, Washington State, Cornell, Tufts and Royal Veterinary College
Interview Invites: CSU, Tufts and RVC
Waitlisted: Cornell and OSU
Rejections: NCSU and WSU
Waiting to hear: RVC
Accepted: CSU and Tufts!
Attending: CSU!!!!
Overall GPA: 3.7
Science GPA: 3.6
Last 45: 3.6
GRE (Q/V/W): 154/158/4.0
Degree: B.S. in Biological Sciences as of May ‘19
Veterinary Experience: ( Total Hours ~960 hrs )
- Volunteer tech for house-call veterinarian ~70 hrs
- Volunteer for an ambulatory equine veterinarian ~230 hrs
- Volunteer for mixed small animal practice ~170 hrs
- Volunteer for specialty pain clinic/small animal hospital ~200 hrs
- Intern at a spay and neuter clinic as a surgery and vaccination tech ~260 hrs
- Intern at a specialty behavioral clinic ~30 hrs
Animal Experience: ( Total hours ~1290 hrs )
- Volunteer at a local cat rescue (adoption/intake/iso/ringworm wards) ~150 hrs
- Volunteer at a local dog rescue ~350 hrs
- Pony club (UK) and years of horse riding ~160 hrs
- Volunteer at the Wild Animal Sanctuary ~280 hrs
- Animal Care at a science camp ~250 hrs
- Lab animal socialization at the CSU VTH ~50 hrs
- Odd bits of volunteering here and there ~50 hrs
Extracurriculars/Awards:
- Volunteer at an English equivalent of a kindergarten teaching arithmetic and reading ~240 hrs
- Volunteer in the CCU at CSU VTH. Helped organize visits so that owners could see their sick pets ~240 hrs
- Deans list 3 semesters
- Sorority (Kappa Delta)
- Publicity Coordinator for the pre-vet club
- Founding VP for the CSU chapter of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
- Tri Beta (National Biology Honorary)
- National Society of Collegiant Scholars
- National Society for Leadership and Success
- Royal Yacht Club levels 1-2 (for sailing)
- NICAS climbing levels 1-7
Research:
- Research assistant in a lab investigating salinity tolerance of Trinidadian Guppies ~200 hrs
Non-Animal Employment:
- Subway sandwich shop cashier ~700 hrs
- Babysitting ~250 hrs
- Tutoring (biology, stats and anatomy) ~50 hrs
LORs:
- Small animal veterinarian
- Graduate student who I worked under in the lab (he was also my TA in two classes)
- Microbiology professor
- Biology Advisor
- Volunteer Coordinator at the cat rescue I interned at (just RVC)
Essay Questions/Personal Statement:
- Future goals: Specialty in zoological medicine followed by hopefully working at a wildlife research facility or a clinic that sees a myriad of species.
- Ways to contribute: I wrote about how veterinarians inspire children and that if it wasn’t for my own animals veterinarians inspiring me and teaching me neat things, then maybe my dream of becoming a vet wouldn’t have happened! If it wasn’t for becoming a vet, I think I would have become a teacher and I love that fact that in many ways’ veterinarians are teachers.
- Attributes: I said that two important attributes for veterinarians are empathy and leadership. I then related this to my own experiences. For leadership I related it to having leadership positions in clubs, and for empathy I related it to helping at the CCU at the CSU VTH dealing with distressed owners.
Can’t believe I get to post this and that I got into more than one school! CONGRATS EVERYONE and GOOD LUCK TO FUTURE APPLICANTS!