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Post by lol on Dec 8, 2015 16:09:13 GMT -5
I would just like to add that I know a couple upper year friends who applied last year and got in with an 85% or less in their last two semesters and an 86% average in their prereqs. It's not impossible!! Don't let the high averages deter you, people do get in with lower scores than that. If you want it bad enough you'll be willing to put in the work required to boost your marks that extra 1-2% that would probably put you above the majority of the crowd applying!! You know, except it's 100 times harder to do that now because there is no more MCAT. Can no longer study your ass off and get a high MCAT score to raise your overall admissions average up. Doubly so, no longer have a low 29 MCAT admissions average that bumps everyone else down. |
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Post by Current vet student on May 8, 2016 16:19:13 GMT -5
One other thing that needs to be considered: if you can only get the grades required to get into OVC by taking the easiest possible courses (as someone in this thread eluded to), you are going to struggle if you actually get in. I just completed first year at OVC and the course load is incredibly heavy, the course material is difficult and almost every exam has a stipulation that you need a 60% to move onto the next year (there are rewrites for some exams if you do fail). So PLEASE focus on taking courses that are actually useful. Take biochem, embryology, histology, anatomy..... anything that will actually help you, not stupidly easy first year electives, because you'll be crying about your choices if you actually get in!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2016 19:19:09 GMT -5
With the MCAT gone, they should really take into account people's experience. I've worked my but off (I'm sure all of us have) for 6 years in small animal practice, often with at least 2 volunteer gigs at the same time. I'm work equally as hard on my grades.
I feel as though it's just not worth trying to get jobs working with animals if my depth of experience won't help the application. I might as well work as a cashier or some mundane job where I can focus on my school work - since that appears to be all that OVC cares about.
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Post by spinner on May 9, 2016 8:51:42 GMT -5
Here's hoping marks don't go up drastically... The way I've been looking at it is by pretending the MCAT was no longer needed LAST year (2019), I went ahead and calculated the average marks based solely on last two full-time semesters (88%), 8 pre-reqs (89%), and average interview score (82%), calculating them the same way they will this year.
This then equates to (88.5% x 0.65) + (82% x 0.35) = ~86% as the overall average for accepted applicants (for last year if there had been no MCAT).
So assuming the MCAT was not needed last year, and since people will still be applying with roughly the same range of marks as last year, I would think its safe to assume that the average this year will be just over 86%.
This is just a thought anyway!
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Post by datass on May 9, 2016 9:25:22 GMT -5
Except you know... People with an 80% average got an interview last year. This year there are interview rejections with at the 84%+ mark, so JUST the low end interview cut off itself has gone up at least 4%.
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Post by decent on May 9, 2016 19:23:03 GMT -5
I had an 82 last 2 semesters and 84 prereqs but got an interview datass. But also 4000 vet hours and 2000 animal hours.
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Post by datass on May 10, 2016 2:18:36 GMT -5
^That gives me more hope but also makes me question things I read on the internet even more lmao.
In the other thread is someone with an 84% (and a supposedly a lot of experience) who survived the first round of rejections, but not the 2nd. Presumably if lack of experience or bad LoRs were the case they would have gotten cut during the first round, not the second.
Oh well, whatever happens... happens.
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Post by Aesvo on May 12, 2016 19:15:22 GMT -5
One other thing that needs to be considered: if you can only get the grades required to get into OVC by taking the easiest possible courses (as someone in this thread eluded to), you are going to struggle if you actually get in. I just completed first year at OVC and the course load is incredibly heavy, the course material is difficult and almost every exam has a stipulation that you need a 60% to move onto the next year (there are rewrites for some exams if you do fail). So PLEASE focus on taking courses that are actually useful. Take biochem, embryology, histology, anatomy..... anything that will actually help you, not stupidly easy first year electives, because you'll be crying about your choices if you actually get in! The problem is if you focus on the courses that will actually be useful later on, you may very well risk your chances of putting together an app that is competitive. Unfortunately the OVC application has become a game of strategy to get the highest marks possible. I wish I'd completed all my prerequisites and easy electives in first and second year, taken a year off, and applied with those grades. |
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Post by vethopeful on May 12, 2016 22:16:17 GMT -5
I had an 82 last 2 semesters and 84 prereqs but got an interview datass. But also 4000 vet hours and 2000 animal hours. You got an interview for this year?? That would go against everything we as applicants know about how the admissions process works..which should be publicly available.. there is no posted cutoff for hours of experience nor is there any mention of hours of experience being favoured over grades. The complete opposite seems to be true actually. |
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Post by Guest 1212 on Jun 9, 2016 19:03:09 GMT -5
^That gives me more hope but also makes me question things I read on the internet even more lmao. In the other thread is someone with an 84% (and a supposedly a lot of experience) who survived the first round of rejections, but not the 2nd. Presumably if lack of experience or bad LoRs were the case they would have gotten cut during the first round, not the second. Oh well, whatever happens... happens. Did you get in this year Datass? I've seen you around a lot and I was rooting for you! |
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Post by Rikki on Nov 4, 2016 19:32:35 GMT -5
I had an 82 last 2 semesters and 84 prereqs but got an interview datass. But also 4000 vet hours and 2000 animal hours. Were you able to get in for this year? |
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