Personal statement for applications for vet med

Hi, I am interested to find out how to wow the admissions dept with my personal statement. I have no idea how or where to start. Any help much appreciated.

Reply 1

McGinger

Start with :
"I realised I wanted to do Veterinary as a career when ......"
and describe, briefly that incident, or something you read, realised, saw etc that made you realise this was going to be your career path.

These two short online courses are useful - and free - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/vet-school-application-support and https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/vet-school-application-support

Reply 2

MNN21

Original post by sandrjohnson1

Hi, I am interested to find out how to wow the admissions dept with my personal statement. I have no idea how or where to start. Any help much appreciated.

Feel free to message me

Reply 3

normaw

Volunteer Section Leader, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by sandrjohnson1

Hi, I am interested to find out how to wow the admissions dept with my personal statement. I have no idea how or where to start. Any help much appreciated.

There is good advice in the following thread:

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6666418

And some examples of vet med personal statements here:

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/university/personal-statements/veterinary-science/

Reply 4

MNN21

Original post by sandrjohnson1

Hi, I am interested to find out how to wow the admissions dept with my personal statement. I have no idea how or where to start. Any help much appreciated.

Are you applying UK or US?

Reply 5

louisvbird

Universities Forum Helper

In the stickied thread on this forum you can find a very useful breakdown as to how to write a personal statement specifically for veterinary medicine. The technique used for vetmed is different to writing other subject's personal statements, so I would avoid generic advice. For example, you want to mostly write about things you saw and learnt on work experience.

Read that thread and let me know if you have any further questions. :smile: