I'm so glad you found it helpful! I have a playlist on my channel with a bunch of videos focused on the application and interview process if you haven't checked it out already!
Long ago, i had my sight on vet school but i was terrible at time management and didn't make the grades. I got my degree in biology and then went back to school for vet technology and worked simultaneously as a vet assistant... about 10 years later at 33 i'm playing with the idea of going back to school and pursuing vet school. Any tips or mentions regarding older classmates?
@@ahnnhi8433 That's amazing!! I can't necessarily speak from experience, but I will say there are definitely older students in the program! We've even had people who have been in a completely different career and then decided to pursue vet med! I don't ever think age should deter you from following a dream!!
I loved this vid!!! Im in undergrad rn and i was wondering what kinds of places/opportunities that you and other classmates have done that yall think helped you get into vet school!
I worked at a small animal clinic, in animal welfare research and at a zoo! At OVC your experience doesn't really play a role in your application so I don't think any of those things necessarily got me into vet school, however, they definitely helped me figure out what I was interested in in the veterinary field! Hope that helps!
Hey Amanda! Im applying to OVC right now and, like you, one of my experiences is VIDA volunteer (spay/neuter clinic in Costa Rica) I know you said that you put that under veterinary experience but I was wondering how you went about doing that? The BIF asks for the clinic and name of the veterinarian, so what did you put as the clinic if they were pop up clinics? Sorry if that doesn't make sense I'm just not sure how to fill it out if I worked under multiple vets and there wasn't a specific clinic! Thanks in advance
Hey Amanda! thank you for all of your amazing videos. I just transferred from pharmacy to animal biology, and I have limited experience (around 50 hr in total shadowing a vet). I’m a single mom and getting as many hours of experience as you just doesn’t work for me. Also pandemic has made it extremely hard to find a paid or voluntary job in animal industry. I will be applying to DVM in 2 years. What do you recommend for getting more experience? I also live in Guelph 😁
Hi!! Thanks so much for watching!! You definitely do not need as many hours as I had to get into vet school! For OVC specifically, your experience doesn't really play a role in your application. It's more for your own benefit and to see if the veterinary profession is right for you! So don't worry too much about the hours you have! The University is a great place to look for animal opportunities! Every summer they offer paid research positions and there's a number of them that are working with animals! There's also some really good volunteer opportunities at Guelph such as Foal Watch or College Royal! Hope that helps and best of luck in Animal Biology!
I graduated from college with a degree in advertising photography. I have worked professionally for large retail brands like Nike, Ralph Lauren, gap, and Tory Burch as a photo retoucher but I am now considering going back to school to become a vet. I know I need to take a couple of courses just to qualify because my degree did not involve any science or math courses. But now I’m concerned that I won’t be able to get in because I have no relevant vet experience besides caring for my own cats and dogs. How do I convince a vet to allow me to shadow them and get relevant vet experience when I don’t have any training? Currently I have a cat with acromegaly and this experience of handling her care is why I’m considering a career change. She gets daily medications including insulin injections, liquid medications, and pills. We visit the vets every two weeks and work with a specialist via email every 1-2 weeks. We track her glucose daily and do urinary checks for ketones regularly. Does any of this count as experience hours?
If you can convey your interest to a vet it shouldn't matter if you have experience off the bat. You have to start somewhere. Just ask to shadow and then when they are more comfortable with you and you are more confident. Ask if you can get some hands on experience or if there are smaller things you can assist with. Work your way up. Maybe you'll get enough experience to apply for an assisting position or end up with a lot of observation hours. Either way.
so first you need to get your undergraduate degree and only then you can go to vet school? Here in Europe I finished high school and got straight to my vet uni
Exactly! In North America, vet schools require students to take and undergrad degree before going to vet school! I think it’s so interesting that you go straight from high school to vet school in Europe!
hi amanda! i've just finished my first year of animal biology at guelph this year! i'm planning on applying to the ovc after my third year, so i'm hoping to gain more experience and acquire possible references for my application! right now i've been shadowing a vet for over two months but i'm not sure if she'll be able to write a good reference letter for me since i'm just watching her. however, i asked her about her references and she used vets who she did research projects and other work for! it seems like those opportunities are the best for getting a good reference because it demonstrates your ability to work instead of watch. so who do you recommend i talk to/where do i go in order to find vets to work under in guelph? or are there any resources for research opportunities that you recommend i check out? thanks so much!
Hey!! Congrats on finishing your first year, honestly you've got the hardest one over and done with! Every summer the university of guelph will post undergrad research assistantship positions that you can apply for! Some of them are working with faculty at ovc. I did one the summer before vet school (not with a vet) and am working under a professor at ovc currently and can't say enough good things about those positions! The jobs typically get posted around February and you can find them all on the Experience Guelph website! If you have any other questions feel free to reach out! 😊
i’m currently a lab technician in my schools animal facility taking care of 100s of birds, doing basic husbandry and sometimes wound care and illness. Would this be animal experience, research experience, or vet hours? I am working under my professor who is a Zoologist
Hey Amanda amazing video as always 😄 So i just wanted to ask that do you live with your family or do you live in the vet school hostel and does OVC have a housing accommodation!!?
Thank you!! I live off campus in Guelph, however there are housing accomodations at the OVC fraternity or with the University of Guelph Off Campus housing!
Thanks for sharing tips about the application! I plan to apply OVC in two years and I was wondering if you have any reading recommendations which I can learn more about veterinary field/medicine before going to vet school?
I read The Accidental Veterinarian by Philipp Schott and I thought it gave a really good look into the veterinary profession! In terms of actually learning content for vet school, I wouldn't stress too much about that! But if you're keen you can always start looking at anatomy! I recommend the Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy By Dyce 😊
@@yourvetamanda is there any specific topic I would need to cover or relearn-? Like biology and so on-? I’m in 10th grade right now and I’m still deciding what I want to be in the future!
What do you do if you’re looking at a second career? I got a master’s degree and went into an entirely different field. Now I know I have a ton of animal experience (ridden horses 20 years) and worked in a clinic, have done extracurriculars, but I have no idea how to quantify any of my experiences since I wasn’t planning on needing to at the time.
Hi Amanda! For work experience without being under the eye of a veterinarian did you include any job you've had that didn't include animals? Thank you!
Hi Amanda, awesome video as always! Thank you so much for sharing this helpful information :D Could you tell me how you got to participate in the spay and neuter clinic in Costa Rica and what you did there?
I went on the trip with the organization Vida Volunteer! We were there for a 2 weeks and had 6 clinic days mixed with small and large medicine! It was a great experience and I highly recommend! Would you be interested in watching a video on the experience?? I can definitely film one if people would be interested!
@@yourvetamanda @Student Vet Amanda That would be great!! But if not that many people are interested, then could you just reply to this comment? I just want to know if there are any pre-requisites or requirements to participate. Bc I went on their website and it says some of the tasks include things like IV catheter placements and sutures.
@@yourvetamanda That is so awesome! I'm dying to get some hands-on experience. You've mentioned quality over quantity when it comes to animal & vet experience. I have volunteered at a small animal clinic before, but besides observing a couple of surgeries, all I got to do was clean kennels and restrain animals. I feel like I have nothing to "brag" about on my application. How can I get valuable experience?
HII I wanted to ask if the type of college you go to matters. I’m planning to go to the army and then go to vet school, of course army college is not as prestigious as normal ones but if having the experience and everything else required, does the type of college greatly affect getting accepted ?
Hi! In my experience (in Canada) it doesn't matter what school you go to as long as you have all the prerequsites needed to apply for vet school! For example, the school I good to requires students to take at least 3 years of a bachelors degree and have several courses taken prior to vet school! Hope that helps!
Hey!! As far as I know the questions on the BIF are always the same! They were the same both times I applied however they might have changed since then ☺️
All the stats are posted on the ovc website for each year! Here's the link to the webpage (the stats are at the bottom): www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/recruitment/en/applyingtodvm/selectionprocess.asp
Can indians get admission in vet school, i am a 10th grader and have dream to become a vet . I am from India , i would like to study abroad, so what is the next procedure? in India there is not much scope for veterinary so i would like to study abroad, is it easy? Pl tell .
You can definitely study abroad for vet school! I'll post the link for the ovc international admission process for you to check out! www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/recruitment/en/applyingtodvm/internationalandusastudents.asp It's not an easy process but worth it in the end! Best of luck 😊
So the DVM program is technically considered and undergraduate program but I previously completed a bachelor of science undergrad before getting accepted into vet school!
HAPPY MONDAY! I hope you all have a wonderful day and find this video helpful! 😊
I found this video really informative! I would love to see more videos like this about the vet school application or interview!
I'm so glad you found it helpful! I have a playlist on my channel with a bunch of videos focused on the application and interview process if you haven't checked it out already!
Thank you so much for breaking down your experience and sharing!
Of course!! I hope you found it helpful ☺️
Long ago, i had my sight on vet school but i was terrible at time management and didn't make the grades. I got my degree in biology and then went back to school for vet technology and worked simultaneously as a vet assistant... about 10 years later at 33 i'm playing with the idea of going back to school and pursuing vet school. Any tips or mentions regarding older classmates?
@@ahnnhi8433 That's amazing!! I can't necessarily speak from experience, but I will say there are definitely older students in the program! We've even had people who have been in a completely different career and then decided to pursue vet med! I don't ever think age should deter you from following a dream!!
I loved this vid!!! Im in undergrad rn and i was wondering what kinds of places/opportunities that you and other classmates have done that yall think helped you get into vet school!
I worked at a small animal clinic, in animal welfare research and at a zoo! At OVC your experience doesn't really play a role in your application so I don't think any of those things necessarily got me into vet school, however, they definitely helped me figure out what I was interested in in the veterinary field! Hope that helps!
Hi! I’m form Thailand
Now I’m vet student 1st year in 🇹🇭
I always watch your videos🥺💓
Hi!! So cool to talk to other vet students from around the world!! Thanks so much for watching 🥰
This video is so interesting!! Thanks for the info!!
Of course, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Hey Amanda! Im applying to OVC right now and, like you, one of my experiences is VIDA volunteer (spay/neuter clinic in Costa Rica) I know you said that you put that under veterinary experience but I was wondering how you went about doing that? The BIF asks for the clinic and name of the veterinarian, so what did you put as the clinic if they were pop up clinics? Sorry if that doesn't make sense I'm just not sure how to fill it out if I worked under multiple vets and there wasn't a specific clinic! Thanks in advance
Hey Amanda! thank you for all of your amazing videos.
I just transferred from pharmacy to animal biology, and I have limited experience (around 50 hr in total shadowing a vet). I’m a single mom and getting as many hours of experience as you just doesn’t work for me. Also pandemic has made it extremely hard to find a paid or voluntary job in animal industry. I will be applying to DVM in 2 years. What do you recommend for getting more experience? I also live in Guelph 😁
Hi!! Thanks so much for watching!! You definitely do not need as many hours as I had to get into vet school! For OVC specifically, your experience doesn't really play a role in your application. It's more for your own benefit and to see if the veterinary profession is right for you! So don't worry too much about the hours you have! The University is a great place to look for animal opportunities! Every summer they offer paid research positions and there's a number of them that are working with animals! There's also some really good volunteer opportunities at Guelph such as Foal Watch or College Royal! Hope that helps and best of luck in Animal Biology!
Very useful for mee , thank you 👍🙏
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I graduated from college with a degree in advertising photography. I have worked professionally for large retail brands like Nike, Ralph Lauren, gap, and Tory Burch as a photo retoucher but I am now considering going back to school to become a vet. I know I need to take a couple of courses just to qualify because my degree did not involve any science or math courses. But now I’m concerned that I won’t be able to get in because I have no relevant vet experience besides caring for my own cats and dogs. How do I convince a vet to allow me to shadow them and get relevant vet experience when I don’t have any training?
Currently I have a cat with acromegaly and this experience of handling her care is why I’m considering a career change. She gets daily medications including insulin injections, liquid medications, and pills. We visit the vets every two weeks and work with a specialist via email every 1-2 weeks. We track her glucose daily and do urinary checks for ketones regularly. Does any of this count as experience hours?
If you can convey your interest to a vet it shouldn't matter if you have experience off the bat. You have to start somewhere. Just ask to shadow and then when they are more comfortable with you and you are more confident. Ask if you can get some hands on experience or if there are smaller things you can assist with. Work your way up. Maybe you'll get enough experience to apply for an assisting position or end up with a lot of observation hours. Either way.
so first you need to get your undergraduate degree and only then you can go to vet school? Here in Europe I finished high school and got straight to my vet uni
Exactly! In North America, vet schools require students to take and undergrad degree before going to vet school! I think it’s so interesting that you go straight from high school to vet school in Europe!
Hai Jomate, I would like to know how veterinary admission are taken in Europe.Im from India , could you please revert me back
hi amanda!
i've just finished my first year of animal biology at guelph this year! i'm planning on applying to the ovc after my third year, so i'm hoping to gain more experience and acquire possible references for my application! right now i've been shadowing a vet for over two months but i'm not sure if she'll be able to write a good reference letter for me since i'm just watching her. however, i asked her about her references and she used vets who she did research projects and other work for! it seems like those opportunities are the best for getting a good reference because it demonstrates your ability to work instead of watch. so who do you recommend i talk to/where do i go in order to find vets to work under in guelph? or are there any resources for research opportunities that you recommend i check out?
thanks so much!
Hey!! Congrats on finishing your first year, honestly you've got the hardest one over and done with! Every summer the university of guelph will post undergrad research assistantship positions that you can apply for! Some of them are working with faculty at ovc. I did one the summer before vet school (not with a vet) and am working under a professor at ovc currently and can't say enough good things about those positions! The jobs typically get posted around February and you can find them all on the Experience Guelph website! If you have any other questions feel free to reach out! 😊
thank you so much for this video
You’re very welcome!! 🥰
Thank you! I have found this video very helpful!
Thanks so much for watching!! Glad it helped 😊
Hey! Been binging your videos fir a while now. They're really helpful, thank you so much. Did you give MCAT before applying?
Thanks for watching! I didn't have to write the MCAT for my vet school application!
@@yourvetamanda oh wow! Not even CASper??
i’m currently a lab technician in my schools animal facility taking care of 100s of birds, doing basic husbandry and sometimes wound care and illness. Would this be animal experience, research experience, or vet hours? I am working under my professor who is a Zoologist
I would probably count it under animal experience!!
Hey Amanda amazing video as always 😄
So i just wanted to ask that do you live with your family or do you live in the vet school hostel and does OVC have a housing accommodation!!?
Thank you!! I live off campus in Guelph, however there are housing accomodations at the OVC fraternity or with the University of Guelph Off Campus housing!
@@yourvetamanda okay that's great thank you!!
Thanks for sharing tips about the application!
I plan to apply OVC in two years and I was wondering if you have any reading recommendations which I can learn more about veterinary field/medicine before going to vet school?
I read The Accidental Veterinarian by Philipp Schott and I thought it gave a really good look into the veterinary profession! In terms of actually learning content for vet school, I wouldn't stress too much about that! But if you're keen you can always start looking at anatomy! I recommend the Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy By Dyce 😊
@@yourvetamanda thank you so much for your comment! I will read them right away:) hope you have a wonderful day!
@@yourvetamanda is there any specific topic I would need to cover or relearn-? Like biology and so on-? I’m in 10th grade right now and I’m still deciding what I want to be in the future!
What do you do if you’re looking at a second career? I got a master’s degree and went into an entirely different field. Now I know I have a ton of animal experience (ridden horses 20 years) and worked in a clinic, have done extracurriculars, but I have no idea how to quantify any of my experiences since I wasn’t planning on needing to at the time.
You'll have to reach out to a school
Hi Amanda! For work experience without being under the eye of a veterinarian did you include any job you've had that didn't include animals? Thank you!
It's ok im happ now u see that lots of love from India 🇮🇳🥰🥰
Hi Amanda, awesome video as always! Thank you so much for sharing this helpful information :D Could you tell me how you got to participate in the spay and neuter clinic in Costa Rica and what you did there?
I went on the trip with the organization Vida Volunteer! We were there for a 2 weeks and had 6 clinic days mixed with small and large medicine! It was a great experience and I highly recommend! Would you be interested in watching a video on the experience?? I can definitely film one if people would be interested!
@@yourvetamanda @Student Vet Amanda That would be great!! But if not that many people are interested, then could you just reply to this comment? I just want to know if there are any pre-requisites or requirements to participate. Bc I went on their website and it says some of the tasks include things like IV catheter placements and sutures.
@@amytran8357 Nope, no pre-reqs or requirements!! They teach you how to do everything there!
@@yourvetamanda That is so awesome! I'm dying to get some hands-on experience.
You've mentioned quality over quantity when it comes to animal & vet experience. I have volunteered at a small animal clinic before, but besides observing a couple of surgeries, all I got to do was clean kennels and restrain animals. I feel like I have nothing to "brag" about on my application. How can I get valuable experience?
@@yourvetamanda I'm sorry for yet another question! Why did you choose Costa Rica instead of Guatemala?
Next video pls 🙏
We breed dogs can my daughter put that into ours?? She has breed cats and dogs
HII I wanted to ask if the type of college you go to matters. I’m planning to go to the army and then go to vet school, of course army college is not as prestigious as normal ones but if having the experience and everything else required, does the type of college greatly affect getting accepted ?
Hi! In my experience (in Canada) it doesn't matter what school you go to as long as you have all the prerequsites needed to apply for vet school! For example, the school I good to requires students to take at least 3 years of a bachelors degree and have several courses taken prior to vet school! Hope that helps!
Hi! I took a class in college where we performed spays and neuters with a vet (learning to monitor equipment) would that be veterinary experience?
Unfortunately you can’t count any college classes toward experience! (For ovc specifically, might be different for other schools)
Hey! Are the questions on the application for ovc always the same? Or do they change once in a while?
Hey!! As far as I know the questions on the BIF are always the same! They were the same both times I applied however they might have changed since then ☺️
How did u find out what the interview cutoffs were?
All the stats are posted on the ovc website for each year! Here's the link to the webpage (the stats are at the bottom): www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/recruitment/en/applyingtodvm/selectionprocess.asp
It's been 3 weeks still dint upload videos
Hopefully Monday!
Can indians get admission in vet school, i am a 10th grader and have dream to become a vet . I am from India , i would like to study abroad, so what is the next procedure? in India there is not much scope for veterinary so i would like to study abroad, is it easy? Pl tell .
You can definitely study abroad for vet school! I'll post the link for the ovc international admission process for you to check out! www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/recruitment/en/applyingtodvm/internationalandusastudents.asp
It's not an easy process but worth it in the end! Best of luck 😊
@@yourvetamanda thank youu!!
i will check it
What camera do you use?
Hey! I recently switched to the canon EOS M50! Here's a link if you want to check it out amzn.to/3gIjWF9 😊
@@yourvetamanda thank you so much!
Heyy!!!
Hi!! Thanks for watching 🥰
hi
amanda are you a UG student
or a PG student
So the DVM program is technically considered and undergraduate program but I previously completed a bachelor of science undergrad before getting accepted into vet school!
Not answering 🥺🥺
Sorry! I didn’t see your question, what’s up?