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First Year:
Meet regularly with your academic advisor
Fall
- Attend “Intro to the Health Professions” Workshop and meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to develop your schedule
- Develop good study habits and maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
- Join Wright State Pre-Vet Society or other student organizations
- Visit “Explore Health Careers” website (www.explorehealthcareers.org
- Participate in pre-health activities and seminars
Winter
- Begin volunteer work in a veterinary clinic, specifically working with large or exotic animals
- Read magazines, newspapers, novels, etc. to enhance your reading and verbal skills
- Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
Spring
- Look at a sample of the GRE to get an idea of what these tests are like
- Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to plan next year's schedule
Summer
- Enjoy the summer
- Volunteer and gain experience working with animals
- Read everything you can
- Attend summer school, if necessary
Sophomore:
Meet regularly with your academic advisor
Fall:
Check in with Pre-Health Advisor and participate in pre-health activities
- Request admission test prep books as holiday gifts
- Get A's in Organic Chemistry
- Find out about research opportunities and summer internships (zoos!)
- Participate in volunteer/paid medically related clinical activities
- Stay involved in student organizations; develop leadership role
Winter:
- Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
- Seriously look at GRE sample questions
- Get to know your professors
- Continue volunteering
Spring:
- Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor to plan next year's schedule
- Maintain your grades
Summer:
- Enjoy the summer
- Volunteer
- Start studying for the GRE
- Attend summer school, if necessary
Junior:
Meet regularly with your academic advisor
Fall:
- Check in with Pre-health Advisor and participate in pre-health activities
- Continue participation in volunteer/paid medically related activities
- Continue involvement in Wright State Pre-Vet Society (run for office, be a mentor)
- Investigate:
- Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements, published by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges
- Begin preparation for GRE administration
- Successfully complete first-quarter required pre-vet coursework and other degree requirements
- Maintain a GPA of 3.5 or above
- Get to know your professors
Winter
- Meet with the Pre-Health Advisor
- Register for GRE online at www.ets.org
- Start to get letters of recommendation
- Do serious studying for the GRE and/or take an GRE prep course
Spring
- Consult regularly with Pre-Health Advisor regarding:
- Schedule for completion of school-specific requirements for advisor evaluation
- Advice about veterinary education options
- Continue participation in volunteer /paid animal related activities
- Take GRE
- Work on personal statement for VMCAS
- How did you become interested in veterinary medicine?
- What have you done to demonstrate your interest in veterinary medicine?
- What have you done to demonstrate your commitment to others?
- Do you have any special talents or leadership skills?
- Did you have to work to pay for your education? How has that made you a stronger applicant?
- Have you had to overcome hardships or obstacles to get where you are today? How that influenced your motivation for advanced education?
- Begin preparing your VMCAS application
- Application becomes available in early June
- Begin lining up your letters of recommendation
- Collect copies of transcripts
- Complete application early so that you can submit well in advance of the application deadline. VMCAS verification can take four to six weeks!
Summer
- Participate in summer health careers program, if available
- Complete VMCAS application and submit
- After submission, check with the schools you are applying to for supplemental materials or fees that are required
- Log onto VMCAS application to monitor that status of your application
- Update any changes of address or other contact information in your application
- Retake GRE, if necessary
- Attend summer school, if necessary
- Receive a copy of your GRE scores
- If letters of recommendations are being sent to Pre-Health Advisor, keep up-to-date that all letters of recommendation have been received and indicate where the letters should be sent
Senior
Meet regularly with your academic advisor
Fall:
- Complete supplementary application materials for schools applied to
- Consult regularly with Pre-Health advisor regarding:
- Completion of school-specific requirements for advisor evaluation
- Status of application/admission process at dental schools applied to
- Continue participation in volunteer/paid medically related activities
- Continue involvement with Wright State Pre-Vet Society
- Visit schools when invited for interviews (see the Pre-Health Advisor interviews to help prepare)
- Interview at veterinary schools
- Continue review of veterinary education options
- Investigate:
- Financial aid planning process with VMCAS
- Financial aid forms required by school of interest
Winter
- Maintain your grades (if you are not successful in gaining admission to dental school this year and you decide to try again next year, these grades will be important
- Decide if you need to retake the GRE
Spring
- Celebrate your acceptance into veterinary school
- Make interim and final decisions about veterinary school choice
- Immediately notify veterinary schools that you will not be attending
- Graduate
Summer
- Enjoy your summer off before starting veterinary school
- Prepare for veterinary school enrollment: purchase books and equipment and make appropriate living arrangements
- Relax and prepare for veterinary school
- Attend orientation programs and matriculate into veterinary school
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