Dropping out of med school and applying to Vet

Would dropping out of med school and applying to a non medicine course impact my application? Meaning would the uni view it as low commitment coming from a drop out or something?

It's a huge red flag to drop out of any medical school to reapply.

Can you tell me how come?

@ecolier might know more but I think it has to do with lack of commitment as you said and medical schools do not want to waste a place on someone who might not finish the course.

I know, I meant I won’t be reapplying to a medical school. Just dropping out of one to pursue a different field

I am

I am. Thank you

I think you would be making a big error doing this. Vet med has just as much reason to be concerned about this red flag as human medical schools would be. I think your motives would be closely scrutinised and I think they’d get more than a hint of entitlement from you if you thought you could so easily jump ship from one to another.

I think you would be making a big error doing this. Vet med has just as much reason to be concerned about this red flag as human medical schools would be. I think your motives would be closely scrutinised and I think they’d get more than a hint of entitlement from you if you thought you could so easily jump ship from one to another.

Where's the entitlement? People on this forum are so weird sometimes

I think you would be making a big error doing this. Vet med has just as much reason to be concerned about this red flag as human medical schools would be. I think your motives would be closely scrutinised and I think they’d get more than a hint of entitlement from you if you thought you could so easily jump ship from one to another.

i disagree. i think it’s a big leap of faith to switch from medicine to veterinary medicine and that could shine in OP’s favour if they play it well in the questionnaires and personal statement. i wrote about how i was unsure at first and then completing all my work experience helped me to realise this was the field i wanted to go into, and i wasn’t scrutinised or anything for it. As long as OP had the correct predicted grades and completed the SJT / pre interview questionnaires well, they have just a good a chance as any other vet med applicant at getting an offer.

this may be our only life if you don’t believe in reincarnation, why would you want to spend it doing a career you dislike or were pressured into by your parents.

@Caring54321 i would get some work experience in an actual vet clinic and research a bit more into the role of a vet and make sure you’re 100% sure before changing your mind !!

I think you would be making a big error doing this. Vet med has just as much reason to be concerned about this red flag as human medical schools would be. I think your motives would be closely scrutinised and I think they’d get more than a hint of entitlement from you if you thought you could so easily jump ship from one to another.

Just for the record, I’m not thinking the “jump shift” is going to easy either. I understand I’ll be judged like a new applicant (maybe even more considering I took a gap year) and I’ll have to work as hard as ever and gain the work experience etc. required for vet school

I wasn’t implying that you thought the jump would be easy, but as a regular on the veterinary medicine thread and the mother of a vet student, I have seen hundreds of seemingly perfect applicants with far more than the necessary work experience, 3 or 4 straight A*’s be rejected two years in a row from all of the vet schools.Hence my question: How would you feel if this happened to you? You would be surprised at the number of posts from students and parents asking where they went wrong with what seemed a perfect application, because unlike medicine there are no entry tests as such, just a few sjt’s and interviews.
I would advise that you think very carefully before making a rash decision. I’m not saying don’t do it. There is nothing worse than being trapped in a job you detest, but think carefully about the worse case scenario and what you would do then.

Entitlement for doing what I have a passion for? I don’t think I’m being true to myself and when I absolutely despise med school and can’t see myself following through with it, wheras being a vet is always a lingering childhood dream I couldn’t achieve because of other circumstances, I’d be pretty gutted I get rejected because the uni feels I’m “entitled” coming from med school.