What Kind of Grades Are Necessary for Admission into Veterinary School?
High school grades are not considered. How you do in high school gets you into college. How you do in college is what gets you into veterinary school and that means as close to straight As as possible. Veterinary school admission is quite competitive with approximately five applicants for each place. You must show knowledge of the profession by working with animals on an extracurricular basis and working in an animal hospital or with a veterinarian. This career is not one to be applied for casually. What are the Duties of a Practicing Veterinarian? This is a difficult question to answer as there are so many different branches of veterinary medicine. We tend to picture the private practice veterinarian in a small community hospital, seeing patients and performing surgery, but there are so many other choices. There are veterinarians who treat only horses, for example. Some veterinarians treat food animals such as cows, chickens or pigs where the focus is on the health of the herd or grou
