Is The Number Of Animal Experience Hours Important For Vet School

• #i

I currently only accept i,000 for animal experience (pet care technician for a pet hotel) and 20 from shadowing a small brute practice hospital. I know I need more hours, considering I'yard nigh to enter college. Would my 1,000 hours of beast experience count even though it isn't veterinary related? How did you residue getting hours and going to schoolhouse?

• #3

I currently only have 1,000 for brute experience (pet intendance technician for a pet hotel) and 20 from shadowing a small animal practice hospital. I know I demand more hours, considering I'm most to enter college. Would my 1,000 hours of beast experience count even though it isn't veterinary related? How did y'all balance getting hours and going to school?

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My typical week currently consists of vet work on Monday afternoons and Tuesday 8-vi. Classes in the AM Chiliad,W,F and all twenty-four hour period TH I work my non vet job about 25hrs/wk when I'm non in course. I practice and teach a martial arts class T,Thursday night and Sa mornings. Sabbatum afternoon is normally some sort of volunteering. Dominicus is my day. It's the 1 twenty-four hour period a calendar week I get to sleep in then I do. I get up, since I alive at home I go to breakfast with my family. If I take something due on Monday, my afternoon consists of studying and getting things done. Otherwise I'll do what I want ride my horse, hike, kayak, hang with friends. I stay very busy. Through the years this has all varied. It can get overwhelming and when it does it's important to take a step back and accept the time you need to readjust even if information technology means just focusing on school for a time and you lot don't practise extracurriculars. Some people can't handle doing all that I practice and that's ok. You have to observe what works best for you.

• #4

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My typical week currently consists of vet work on Monday afternoons and Tuesday viii-6. Classes in the AM Chiliad,Due west,F and all twenty-four hours TH I piece of work my non vet task near 25hrs/wk when I'm not in class. I exercise and teach a martial arts course T,Thursday night and Sa mornings. Sat afternoon is usually some sort of volunteering. Dominicus is my solar day. Information technology's the one solar day a calendar week I get to slumber in and then I exercise. I get up, since I live at home I go to breakfast with my family. If I take something due on Monday, my afternoon consists of studying and getting things done. Otherwise I'll do what I want ride my equus caballus, hike, kayak, hang with friends. I stay very decorated. Through the years this has all varied. It can get overwhelming and when it does it'due south important to accept a step dorsum and take the time you lot demand to readjust fifty-fifty if it means but focusing on school for a fourth dimension and you don't do extracurriculars. Some people tin can't handle doing all that I do and that's ok. You have to observe what works all-time for you.

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• #v

Like others have said, your prior experience counts.

Going into college, I had nigh 2,000 (thereabouts) hours of equine and other big beast (goats) experience on both a volunteer and riding/showing basis, and perhaps like 8 hours of vet shadowing that I can't even remember if I put on my application.

I picked up most of my feel during school breaks. Information technology's very important to get dissimilar types of feel (not merely all in one place), and definitely start looking for vet jobs/shadowing/etc most the middle/cease of the spring semester (or at present!) because many schools require a minimum of a couple hundred hours of vet-based experience to be eligible for acceptance.

Yous'll be fine. You've got, theoretically, three years to go experience together, and you've got a proficient start on things! Just pick upward things where you tin, every piffling fleck helps.

I was accepted my first round past several schools with ~600 hours of vet feel, ~4000 hours of volunteer (non-vet) equine and big creature experience, 12 hours of research in a man organ donation facility dissecting kidneys, ~2000 hours of RA stuff, and a sprinkling of other experiences here and there. Remember that they likewise do want to encounter a well-rounded person, then participating in non-animal related activities is important equally well!

Likewise pregnant to annotation (since I didn't postal service in the accepted thread for 2021): I had a GRE in the 80th percentile, a slightly below average GPA for the schools I applied to at around three.iii, and also a really, really significant history and personal argument that probably helped seal the bargain for me (especially because my GPA).

((I probably should actually go study for my final tomorrow instead of procrastinating on SDN))

• #half-dozen

I decided on Vet Med late in college and was but able to get about 800 vet hours (almost exclusively small beast) and I had a difficult time in the admissions process specifically because I was on the depression hour side. Volunteer under a vet and try and get at least 1000 hours in 2 dissimilar areas on top of all the other awarding boosters (research, leadership, a job). Exist sure to build a stiff human relationship with the vet for a good LOR Slater downward the line (I volunteered a few hours a week at a dispensary for 2 years and so the vet knew me and my work ethic)

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