Veterinary Medicine 2015 hopefuls!

That page looks awesome - would be incredibly useful!

Another question I know it was mentioned on here briefly, have any of you smart people done the extended project qualification? I'm really interested in doing it in the sixth form if my school can do it. Can anyone just explain a bit further what is required to do well in it?
Thanks

Chuffed is an understatement! I honestly was not expecting that, so it was a lovely surprise at the end of a rather tedious day . No more maths until September!

Are you even asking that question? Of course I am! I hope so, I love them Given that five months ago I turned up to my interview there an hour late and looking like a drowned rat dipped in mud (damned bus didn't accept Oyster ), I think I've improved on my first impression!

Hahaha well done again and I know pointless question ahaha first impressions aren't everything but that's great your determined you'll definitely be a vet I can see it a mile off

And I think you should if you need help with any scottish qualification troubles when making that ill be happy to assist but you might as well

Thanks!

You can say that again! My interview was bloody awful! I was completely awkward as I was really nervous . At my interview they told me that they'd send me an email the next day to know whether or not I could come. The next day came and went. So did the next day. And the next. And the next... then one day before I started they phoned up and told me that they'd sent it to the wrong email address. The rest is history!

They're such lovely people too They've really taken me under their wing. The other day a journalist came to take a photo for the local newspaper and they said "Lizzie, get in the photo, you're part of the team now! " I was just there like:


tl;dr, farms are the best places in the whole damn world

Anyway, thank you! You'll defo get in too, I'm still in awe of all the WEx you've done!

If there's sufficient interest then I will, but having looked at the code for the medic page I think that it may take significantly longer than an hour to edit it for us vets. A job for the weekend, methinks.

Ahahaha! Aww that's nice it's great when you feel part of something isn't it?

And thank you it's not that amazing tbh it looks pretty shoddy to me and I second your love for farms #homesweetfarm hahah

Sure is! It's quite funny actually, when I first started there the staff would be really ashamed if they accidentally swore in front of me, saying things like "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry excuse my French sorry that's really not appropriate I forgot you're only 16 please don't be offended or anything I'm Irish, swearing is in my blood I'm so sorry". Now pretty much every conversation in the office after closing just sounds like "**** **** **** **** MOTHER****ER " I don't know why they thought I'd be uncomfortable with it when I first started

Mate, do you even know what the word 'shoddy' means?! If yours is shoddy then what is mine, you're way ahead of me!

I wish I lived somewhere nice and rural l . Growing up on a farm would have been the best childhood ever!

Hahahah that's like when I go to te farm and (previously) at the vets Ahaha they get more comfortable around you after time goes on "You swear too much I must leave this establishment" Ahaha

Mate trust me seeing what people have booked on this for the summer makes me look like a nobody Ahaha I've not got anything for the summer as of yet but I could be possibly going to an animal sanctuary haha and you've got loads too! Especially since you only decided sort of recently that you were gonna be a vet anyway it's what's done by next year that counts

And me too! I live in the suburbs and near two mins away from the motorway which is surrounded by countryside so I'm not too far away but when I'm older I'd like to live somewhere rural but not isolated

To be honest I would have been more surprised if they all didn't swear

All I have booked for this summer is a couple of weeks at a dairy farm and a couple of weeks at a stable . I'm sending off a letter to an exotics vet tomorrow though . I think Monika is the queen of summer bookings at the moment! The good thing is that any day where I don't have anything booked I can just go to the farm, but what I desperately need at the moment is variety...

I'd like to move out to the countryside too . There are a lot of nice villages that are only a ten minute drive away from civilisation

That's only because I went a little crazy booking all of this work experience after seeing how much all of you had done and me sitting there with only three placements! It took me a bloody long time to organise everything as well! Still have two weeks left to book, so need to find a farm or a kennel urgently

Woop, sent off a letter today requesting WEx with the exotics specialist, wish me luck !

Does anybody else hate sending off letters or is it just me? There's always a pile of 'what ifs' in the back of my mind . What if the letter gets lost in the post? What if the envelope falls open? What if the stamp peels off? What if I made a mistake copying down the address ...

Oh, the GCSEs page is under construction, by the way. Will be up by Sunday hopefully.


I think trying to get equine vet placements is just about as hard as getting a place at vet school You'll have so much done by summer, you should be proud of your dedication! I wanted to stuff my summer full of placements too, but I'm going on The Challenge and DofE expeditions so that's going to take up quite a lot of my time.

Good luck! I really hope you get the exotics vet placement. I emailed a exotics vet near me and they told me I should email them when I'm in my 4th year of vet school

And omg, I'm exactly the same! I never know whether they've actually got it

LOL, it actually is! Getting a place at farm vets in London - now that's completely impossible. Haha, I am very excited for the summer! And omg, I'm going on the challenge too woo!

Wow . Annoying, isn't it. I can understand, because a vet student's EMS is more important than our WEx, but it's still a pain .

What if I wrote the long phone number on the letter? What if I made a horrendous spelling error? What if I asked for the wrong dates? What if the vet loses the letter and can't contact me? I worry about everything .

Oh really, awesome! Which date are you going on?

How long a summer do yous have!!! Ahahah I've got about 6/7 weeks off and I'm away on holiday for two so I've got about 4/5 weeks to book up if I can I'm like that too! I still haven't heard back from the large animal vets so I may need to commence phase 2: telephonic communications

What's this challenge business about?


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The very last one, I think the 17th August And you? Also, what subject did you pick to do for your university week?

How long a summer do yous have!!! Ahahah I've got about 6/7 weeks off and I'm away on holiday for two so I've got about 4/5 weeks to book up if I can I'm like that too! I still haven't heard back from the large animal vets so I may need to commence phase 2: telephonic communications

What's this challenge business about?

Well I go on study leave on 13th May and I don't have to go back to school after that apart from going in for my exams. So once I've finished my exams on 24th of June I have until September off!


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Ahh, mine's in June so I guess there's no chance of us meeting . I chose photography , you?



Year 11s finish super early Normally we'd finish late July, but this year my last exam is in mid June and I don't do back to school after that. 11+ weeks of freedom!

The Challenge is a summer course that runs in London (although I think it's known as National Citizen Service elsewhere). It's basically 4 days of activities (canoeing, abseiling etc), 4 days of 'skills', which involves staying away on a university campus, then 4 days of enterprise, which is organising a charity event I think. Anyway it was only £35 for all that and it looked like fun so I just thought why not?

What?!?!? :O that's so unfair ahaha! I've got about 5 weeks-ish of study leave but minus about two of them because I will be in for the exams and then I have to go back in June for a month until the end of June when we finish. That's rubbish yous get to stock up on vetty things ahah oh well got plenty of time

And I researched that it looks quite good but then I realised it didn't run in Scotland so I was a little disheartened ahah things are going for me it looks

Just tried to book a place at a lecture being held at Glasgow vet school based on veterinary physiotheraphy will find out on Monday if I got place hopefully should be interesting

On another note, I was thinking if in the unfortunate event of being rejected by all unis and (for me anyway) if you got a place in a related 5th choice course I.e. veterinary biosciences, would it be most sensible to do this course or take a gap year? I know that it will cost in excess of £100,000+ to do vet med as a postgraduate degree but if you rejected an offer for this back up choice then reapplied next year for the four vet med places and this same subject again are you likely to be accepted twice? Plus with every gap year you take aren't your chances of getting into vet med decreasing? Just wondering in case