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Post by lowenger on Oct 29, 2014 14:29:51 GMT -5
Hi Nucky
Have you reviewed the website on our selection process?
You don't mention if you got an interview.
Make sure that your vet references are good ones. It looks like your clinical experience is not very recent, unless you are working with a vet now, so be sure when you get your references that the vets know you well and can speak to your strengths.
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Post by nucky on Oct 30, 2014 9:59:23 GMT -5
Hi Nucky Have you reviewed the website on our selection process? You don't mention if you got an interview. Make sure that your vet references are good ones. It looks like your clinical experience is not very recent, unless you are working with a vet now, so be sure when you get your references that the vets know you well and can speak to your strengths. Thanks Ms. Lowenger, I didn't get an interview, I plan to obtain an reference from the clinical vet at my animal research facility, and one from the farm vet whom I will do a placement with again in December. But I will try to obtain some clinical experience prior the BIF deadline in March |
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Post by dairyvet on Oct 30, 2014 15:47:31 GMT -5
Hi! I would say you have quite a bit of good experience there, but I would definitely say more vet experience will help make you MORE competitive, although what you have looks overall good (to me, but I'm not in admissions!) My stats were similar to yours when I was admitted, so I thought it might help you if I broke down my experience for you! If it's useful, here's what I did. - 1200 small animal private practice (full time for a year prior to admission) - 800 hours wildlife vet assistant/intern at a rehab facility - 100? hours volunteering in a shelter hospital -120 hours working in a research facility with a vet Truthfully it was probably overkill, but it definitely doesn't hurt to have MORE experience than you need. I knew for sure that being a vet is what I wanted to do, and I could justify it well in my interview and in my essay. From what I understand, vet experience is more important than animal, and it certainly helps to have glowing reference letters. If you can get in with the farm vet again that would be great for your application I would say.. but if you can find another place to volunteer as well, that will only help you. It certainly won't hurt your application to have even more vet experience! And from what I understand from previous posts, you can still be red-flagged for not having enough/recent experience/not glowing reference letters, so make sure your references know you well enough to give you a great LOR! I hope that helps a bit!  |
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