What is it like to be a large animal/rural veterinarian?
Hannah, my S.O. is a student at A&M’s vet school in her 4th year. If you’d like to find out “what it’s like” from someone who’s less than five months from being done with the program… Her specialty/focus is large animal reproduction. She worked for the guy that manages A&M’s horse herd for her entire undergrad as a horse trainer and general lackey, and made it in on her first application. There’s a good chance that she would be able to guide you to some resources. The one big thing I can tell you is that you need to work on your resume. Get a student job with the Large Animal Clinic, or work for a vet every summer from now until you finish your undergrad. You need have a 3.5+ GPA (Preferably closer to 3.8) to even be *competitive* to enter the DVM program. Even then, very few students will make it in on their first try. The big thing is to be proactive and to show that you really WANT it by following up every avenue, beating down doors, and ignoring “typically don’t do it until” …
