Help from Western Students!!!

[dstrycha]

I'm currently in 3rd year Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario and I have some serious questions regarding courses at Western that fulfill the 8 DVM prereqs!

Firstly, for Stats...do either STATS 1023 or STATS 1024 count??

Also, does BIO 2382 count for Cell Biology and BIO 2581 count for Genetics??

Thank you greatly, in advance.

[Guest53]

Not sure about stats 1023, but 1024 is not acceptable because it is considered an intro to stats. Both bio 2382 and 2581 are acceptable as cell bio/Genetics. At least that was the case when I got them approved last year

[dreizehn]

Sept 5, 2013 9:42:19 GMT -5 dstrycha said:

I'm currently in 3rd year Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario and I have some serious questions regarding courses at Western that fulfill the 8 DVM prereqs!

Firstly, for Stats...do either STATS 1023 or STATS 1024 count??

Also, does BIO 2382 count for Cell Biology and BIO 2581 count for Genetics??

Thank you greatly, in advance.

Be sure to check out the earlier thread started by Ms. Lowenger: Acceptable Courses used by non U o Guelph, wherein currently three people from UWO have posted their list of external prerequisite courses they got approved by admissions (1, 2, 3). From a quick glance: one poster used Biology 2382B – Cell Biology (0.5), two used Biology 2581B – Genetics (0.5), and there was no information on either of the stats courses you mentioned.

As it says in that thread, and as always in regards to course acceptability questions, be sure to contact Deanna Lundmark ASAP to start your course/semester approvals process, as courses can change from year to year, and each applicant has their own unique academic history that plays into the approvals process (i.e., a course that may be acceptable for one student may not be acceptable for another). For more detailed information, refer to the OVC page on making a course evaluation request.

[dstrycha]

The OVC page says "In third year and beyond, 60% percent of credits in each full-time semester must be taken at a 3000 level (third-year level) or above. However, 40% of the credits in a full-time semester may be taken at the level of the applicant's choice."

Does this mean that taking more than 2 second year courses per semester in my third year will make my application unsuccessful?

I ask this because I have recently decided to change my career path to veterinary medicine and am now forced to take some second year sciences (that will fulfill the prereqs) in my third year. The module that I am enrolled in also requires me to take these science courses in third year, so I'm not sure that there is a way around this.

[dreizehn]

Sept 5, 2013 13:25:32 GMT -5 dstrycha said:

The OVC page says "In third year and beyond, 60% percent of credits in each full-time semester must be taken at a 3000 level (third-year level) or above. However, 40% of the credits in a full-time semester may be taken at the level of the applicant's choice."

Does this mean that taking more than 2 second year courses per semester in my third year will make my application unsuccessful?

I ask this because I have recently decided to change my career path to veterinary medicine and am now forced to take some second year sciences (that will fulfill the prereqs) in my third year. The module that I am enrolled in also requires me to take these science courses in third year, so I'm not sure that there is a way around this.

In most instances, that would indeed be a correct application of that regulation. HOWEVER, there can sometimes be exceptions if a program change or something else means you had not taken the required courses, and this is why it is important to start up contact with Ms. Lundmark as soon as possible (the assessment and approvals process itself takes a long time, and even longer if you have to go back and forth submitting different options). She will go through your complete academic history, as well as the potential prerequisite courses you have submitted, to assess your year-level, determine the appropriate year-level for your prerequisite courses, and decide if any year-level exceptions will apply to your case.

I also went through a program switch (engineering to science), so while I would have been officially classified as a third-year student or higher, I was lacking many of the basic science prerequisites OVC requires since I obviously never took them in engineering (e.g., genetics, biochem, etc.). When assessed, I was indeed classified as an upper-year student, but because of my non-science background was permitted exceptions to take a limited number of lower-level science courses that would have otherwise been disallowed as prerequisites (e.g., first year genetics, second year introductory biochem), with the remainder of my courses having to be third-year or higher unless otherwise assessed and approved by the admissions office.

Just be sure to start up contact with Ms. Lundmark, as this question definitely gets into the territory of something only she is officially qualified to answer.