2017 vet med students

Anyone up to much this half term?

Heading off tomorrow morning to Wales to do my first ever week of lambing!! Can't wait

Anyone up to much this half term?

I'm currently a year 13 student who didn't apply last year for vetmed due to my grades however have 20+ weeks of experience and I'm resitting many exams to hopefully apply this year with you guys. I was just wondering if there is anyone else in my position or if anyone else has been and if this changes the application process in any way?

I'm currently a year 13 student who didn't apply last year for vetmed due to my grades however have 20+ weeks of experience and I'm resitting many exams to hopefully apply this year with you guys. I was just wondering if there is anyone else in my position or if anyone else has been and if this changes the application process in any way?

Application process is exactly the same


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Does that mean you're doing a third year at college/sixth form?

HI, no I plan on finishing all of my A levels this year, I'm not even sure that I can retake my A2 exams or not (as I'm not doing the linear A-levels) but I guess i'll just have to wait and see!

Then yes, it's the exact same it would be the same if you take three years to do A levels but you wouldn't be able to apply to Edinburgh or Cambridge.

Thanks! Do you know if they might expect a little bit more work experience or any planned work experience during the gap year? I'm eager to do some more as it is very beneficial at the end of the day however just wondered if it is an unmentioned rule.

Okay well I'll make sure I get some more planned work experience for next year! I really want to go to somewhere like Africa or Romania but I tried to get in contact with a gap year company and they never replied :-(

That's unfortunate, but don't worry too much! While these placements are really good experience (and they also sound like a lot of fun & you get to see different parts of the world) they're not the be all & end all; vet schools tend to prefer it if you've done voluntary ones such as getting covered in cow **** while milking or mopping up consult rooms I think Unis still count them but doing them doesn't put you above people who haven't, as many applicants cannot afford to do them

Yeah I'm putting it at low priority as it would wipe out all of my job savings so far and would be so far to travel on my own! I've done 3 weeks of work experience at Brighton's Sea life centre and have 3 weeks planned for Chessington Zoo this October as I won't be at college, I was just wondering if any Universities discredit exotic placements or limit the amount of weeks you can put forward? I know Liverpool will only count one week from each placement (please correct me if I'm wrong!) but I just wondered if other universities have a similar process?

I think Liverpool count it as more than one (@littletailchaser @Lizziefickling I think one of you will know better than me ) & none of them discredits exotic work experience- any experience is good experience! (Except the really bad ones ). They don't dislike those placements as such, just that there are a set of unspoken 'compulsory/core' placements that they like you to do, such as dairy, lambing, kennels, stables etc. You can find more about this on each individual vet schools website or the veterinary medicine thread on here http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Veterinary_Medicine
Spend as much time as you like working with exotics, but just remember that as a qualified vet you have to treat *all* domestic species, so try and get as much of a variety as possible before you apply
(Apologies if you're aware of this already and already have loads of farm/vet/smallies work experience! It's just difficult to tell what stage you're at WEX wise or how much you know about applying I don't mean to be patronising!)

Yeah I'm putting it at low priority as it would wipe out all of my job savings so far and would be so far to travel on my own! I've done 3 weeks of work experience at Brighton's Sea life centre and have 3 weeks planned for Chessington Zoo this October as I won't be at college, I was just wondering if any Universities discredit exotic placements or limit the amount of weeks you can put forward? I know Liverpool will only count one week from each placement (please correct me if I'm wrong!) but I just wondered if other universities have a similar process?

I think Liverpool count it as more than one (@littletailchaser @Lizziefickling I think one of you will know better than me ) & none of them discredits exotic work experience- any experience is good experience! (Except the really bad ones ). They don't dislike those placements as such, just that there are a set of unspoken 'compulsory/core' placements that they like you to do, such as dairy, lambing, kennels, stables etc. You can find more about this on each individual vet schools website or the veterinary medicine thread on here http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Veterinary_Medicine
Spend as much time as you like working with exotics, but just remember that as a qualified vet you have to treat *all* domestic species, so try and get as much of a variety as possible before you apply
(Apologies if you're aware of this already and already have loads of farm/vet/smallies work experience! It's just difficult to tell what stage you're at WEX wise or how much you know about applying I don't mean to be patronising!)

When I applied (back in the day 😂) we were allowed a max of 2 weeks exotic placement



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As Lizzie and Louise have said, no universities discredit exotics work, however Liverpool limit the amount of time that each exotics placement can count for; to one week. I can't remember exactly how many 'alternative' placements we could put down, but I think it was four.