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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Randall" data-source="post: 1793253" data-attributes="member: 38590"><p>Schools set their own admission requirements. The information posted above is somewhat inaccurate; students don't need a degree at all to get into vet school. Every school has a list of courses that they require applicants to have completed before they will be considered. For most students, that ends up taking 3-4 years and they earn an undergraduate degree in the process.</p><p></p><p>Wisconsin experimented with "fast tracking" undergraduate students with great grades into vet school earlier, but I think they discontinued that program after underwhelming results. The students that got in early struggled more and had a higher dropout rate. Older students get the value of the additional education, tend to be more mature, and have had more time to consider their commitment to being a veterinarian. Schools are motivated to keep their dropout rate low because it ends up costing them a lot of tuition revenue when a student doesn't stick with it.</p><p></p><p>Even when schools have lower academic standards on paper, competition between applicants keeps the standards high. It's not uncommon for students to apply two or three times before being admitted. If you're a school administrator whose job security depends on keeping the graduation rate high, and you have the choice between two students with similar grades and test scores, are you going to choose the 20 year old on her first application or the 23 year old on her third?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Randall, post: 1793253, member: 38590"] Schools set their own admission requirements. The information posted above is somewhat inaccurate; students don't need a degree at all to get into vet school. Every school has a list of courses that they require applicants to have completed before they will be considered. For most students, that ends up taking 3-4 years and they earn an undergraduate degree in the process. Wisconsin experimented with "fast tracking" undergraduate students with great grades into vet school earlier, but I think they discontinued that program after underwhelming results. The students that got in early struggled more and had a higher dropout rate. Older students get the value of the additional education, tend to be more mature, and have had more time to consider their commitment to being a veterinarian. Schools are motivated to keep their dropout rate low because it ends up costing them a lot of tuition revenue when a student doesn't stick with it. Even when schools have lower academic standards on paper, competition between applicants keeps the standards high. It's not uncommon for students to apply two or three times before being admitted. If you're a school administrator whose job security depends on keeping the graduation rate high, and you have the choice between two students with similar grades and test scores, are you going to choose the 20 year old on her first application or the 23 year old on her third? [/QUOTE]
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