Veterinary Medicine 2015 hopefuls!

Really good luck to all of you I'm sure you'll all get what you need in your GCSEs!

You shouldn't be embarrassed by that at all . Besides, you still have time to take up new hobbies if you don't think that that is enough.

I was going to go to Switzerland in summer with the Scouts to go skiing, but it clashed with results day as well as being really expensive.

#scoutswag

Really good luck to all of you I'm sure you'll all get what you need in your GCSEs!

Haha it was really good they showed me how to do it and I started to pick up on it but with difficulty aha! Yeah I suppose it does it "My daughter successfully caught a hard thrown, which spun on several axises, with her left hand, a rare occurrence which surely must be celebrated" hahah and I would be soo bad at sewing

I'm not very extra curricular tbh aha
-4 years at scouts, doing chief scout award and hoping to do young leader
-Do badminton before scouts with the leaders
-Have done snowboarding for quite a while in the past but I'm rusty so I'll probably have to do lessons again aha
-Started doe in my school in 3rd year for bronze but the teacher was so unprepared it was unbelievable, spent a whole year doing work and prepared for the excursion but he didn't forgot to book a bus so we couldn't go and we hardly learnt anything so I quit because it was a complete waste of time
-would like to start at some clubs like tennis, archery and scuba diving

So I'm pretty bad in that department but I'll try and boost it up in the following years

Ps Scouts is better that guides, chocolate badge please

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Haha it looks pathetic compared to yours! Your like the Yoda of extracurricular activities (take that as a compliment ) haha

We have talked about going to Croatia (I think) as we have got in touch with a scout troop there so that might be a possibility and aww that's a shame that would have sounded fun

#instaswag #scoutYOLO :L

Another Scout!? Really?!

you mean like having good motor skills and hand-eye co-ordination?

In the applicants questionnaire for Nottingham there is a question which asks you to give examples that you have good hand-eye coordination. It might change by the time you apply though...

I don't have many extra curriculars to be honest

- Deputy Head Girl ( Yeah... I know )
- 'Chief Editor' of my school's science newspaper (Again... I know Geek alert! )
- Scouts for 9 years
- Young Leader for 2 years
- Junior Sports Leaders Qualification
- Volunteering at U3A (teaching elderly people how to use computers and iPads)
- Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Award (Working towards Silver at the moment)
- Various clubs (Art, Chess, Badminton, Kickboxing etc) if I can be bothered.

Oh my God. If you say that you don’t have ‘a lot’ extracurricular activities, then there is literally no hope for me. I don’t do anything really.. no sport, drama or music ;D

I hope that the other people on this thread represent the creme de la creme of potential 2015 apps, otherwise I am completely and utterly screwed ...

Yeah the kennels do count as well as a long term placement which shows commitment

I don't know if they would count that, if it costs (a lot that is) then no but if it truly is a source of work experience then yes. It's a similar situation to that VetSim, an excellent source of wex but only if you can spend a few hundred quid therefore not valid experience.

I've basically got roughly 2 years at a petting exotic farm
18 months at a SA vets
2 weeks lambing
Nearly a week dairy (ongoing)
Nearly a week at stables

I have contacted a few places and have got some stuff organised for later on but with no justified dates


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Hey, welcome to the thread! Nice to meet you

I haven't made any definite choices yet, but I'm considering RVC, Liv, Brizzle and Notts. I haven't been to any open days or anything yet though, so those are very much subject to change.

So far I have two days short of nine weeks (painfully little, I know ) at a pet shop, SA vet, stable and urban farm. I have 2 weeks each of dairy and stables booked for summer, and I'm hoping to get another two weeks of SA and a couple of LA as well. The zookeeper day sounds really interesting, but I guess it depends on what you're actually doing there. In general I don't think they count things that you have to pay for (VetCam, Vetmed Link, Vetsim etc) simply because it isn't fair on people who can't afford it, but it could still be something interesting to mention on your PS

The majority of the schools in my area run a programme called the World Challenge - it's this association where you have two years starting in Year 12 to raise money for a trip to a country in the world. Most of the countries chosen are either in Asia or Africa: there's been Cambodia, Ecuador, etc. This year it's Malaysia. The cost of the trip is £1999 and each individual person has to raise it completely themselves, parents are only allowed to contribute to the last 15% of the total cost. Whilst in Malaysia - (or any other country) one week is spent with the local town people and helping them in some way. We come up with a project to help the people (I think last year they built shelters, and water supplies), this time we either get to choose to stay with the local people and help them or go to a baby elephant orphanage and look after the elephants for a week. The second week, is going on an expedition throughout the whole of Malaysia with nothing but tents and walking shoes It's very exciting and, only around 14 people can go from the whole sixth form, so you literally have to fight for places.

I really, really hope so too.. because otherwise I have next to no chance..

Yeah I read that a long term placement is a good thing



Woah! You both have loads more work experience than me! I tried sending emails to different places but they either replied back saying they have none or can't take me or they just don't reply at all

Yeah I read that a long term placement is a good thing



Woah! You both have loads more work experience than me! I tried sending emails to different places but they either replied back saying they have none or can't take me or they just don't reply at all


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Ooo, haven’t had the chance to welcome you to thread!Welcome J I’m Monika.Don’t worry about work experience, before I came to this thread I literally hadtwo weeks. Over the Easter holidays I’ve managed to book 10 placements just forthis summer – I didn’t even think this was possible!
Right now all I have is:
· 1 Week SA Vets
· 1 Week Cattery
· 1 Year every Saturday at a stables
· 2 Years every Sunday at a dog trainingschool.
Booked for summer:
· 1 Week Equestrian Centre
· 1 Week Wildlife Hospital
· 1 Week Another Wildlife Hospital/Centre
· 1 Week Small SA Vets
· 1 Week Another SA Vets
· 2 Weeks Equine Vets
· 1 Week Stables and 1 Week Veterinary Laboryoryory fghfghdft

So... much... clinical work .

I need more of that .

Well I figured that I barely had any clinical work so needed to stack up on as much as I could but now I realise, I barely have any other animal work.. and I'm here like You have all your work experience with farms and things. The problem is that I have a lot of city and urban farms around me, but for some reason I just feel like it's not what universities are looking for.. I feel like they want proper working farms and not just a farm with two cows, and pigs

Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt The equine vet that will "email me back tomorrow" still hasn't, it's been two weeks

Half the time they're not even being honest Last year I emailed an animal rescue centre and I was told that all WEx placements for that year were booked... only for them to offer someone in my class a place four weeks later. FFS, if my email was bad, at least have the courtesy to say why.