RVC On Hold 2025

Creating a thread for on holds so we can support and update each other as results start to come out in the next few months.

Fingers crossed for everyone! 🍀 🐾 🩺

Reply 1

Euapp

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Brilliant idea!

Reply 2

Stell2046

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Thanks

Reply 3

HappyMrsChicken

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Thanks for creating this

Reply 4

lauyyyka

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thank you!

Reply 5

vetmed023

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Anyone know how likely we are to get places

Reply 6

Raekuki

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Original post by vetmed023

Anyone know how likely we are to get places

It 100% depends on the number of people who reject places and your position on the list, so there’s no answer to your question since it would vary every year.
However, I’ve seen that they start to some send offers and rejections around end of March to end of April in the past years since that’s when people start to make decisions. I believe some people have called in the past for updates as well and they have been open in telling them whether they're going to be using the holding list, but wouldn’t recommend doing that until around April.

(edited 2 months ago)

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vetmed023

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Original post by Raekuki

It 100% depends on the number of people who reject places and your position on the list, so there’s no answer to your question since it would vary every year.
However, I’ve seen that they start to some send offers and rejections around end of March to end of April in the past years since that’s when people start to make decisions. I believe some people have called in the past for updates as well and they have been open in telling them whether they're going to be using the holding list, but wouldn’t recommend doing that until around April.

thank u!

Reply 8

lianapau0626

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been waitlisted, finger crossed for everyone!!🤞🤞🤞🤞

Reply 9

Raekuki

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Original post by lianapau0626

been waitlisted, finger crossed for everyone!!🤞🤞🤞🤞

Best of luck, manifesting for all of us! Hopefully we will have some good news in this thread in the next month xx 🍀🍀🍀

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vetmed023

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Original post by Raekuki

Best of luck, manifesting for all of us! Hopefully we will have some good news in this thread in the next month xx 🍀🍀🍀

Yesss really hoping we get in haha

Reply 11

genii_talkie

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Hi, just wondering if anyone on the waitlist has been offered a place yet?

(edited 1 month ago)

Reply 12

Mollysmom2

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Original post by genii_talkie

Hi, just wondering if anyone on the waitlist been offered a place yet?

I can’t answer your question but I can say this. I know a lot of US students are now declining their positions at RVC because of the strong potential of RVC losing accreditation due to poor NAVLE scores for the past couple of years. They even sent out warning letters to the North American students. That being said I’m sure waitlist will be moving. Good luck to all.

Reply 13

Raekuki

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Original post by genii_talkie

Hi, just wondering if anyone on the waitlist has been offered a place yet?

I don’t believe so, haven’t heard anything from anyone I know

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Chloe.B

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If the RVC lose their AVMA accreditation, but as a graduate, we pass the NAVLE, can we not still practise in the US/Canada? Or do graduates need to graduate from an AVMA university to be able to pass the NAVLE? Any clarification is greatly appreciated!

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Raekuki

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Original post by Chloe.B

If the RVC lose their AVMA accreditation, but as a graduate, we pass the NAVLE, can we not still practise in the US/Canada? Or do graduates need to graduate from an AVMA university to be able to pass the NAVLE? Any clarification is greatly appreciated!

If RVC loses AVMA accreditation after you have taken the NAVLE and passed, I believe you can still practice. But if they lose it before you have taken the NAVLE, you’d have to find another way to take the NAVLE. It kind of seems like a gamble to take the offer especially if intending to practice in the states and Canada given if you have other offers of AVMA accredited schools like Notts etc

This is what is said on their website:
Should a school lose accreditation, graduates of that school who have yet to pass the NAVLE would be required to qualify for the NAVLE by alternative pathways.

(edited 1 month ago)

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Chloe.B

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This is really helpful thank you!

I 100% intend to practise in Canada after graduation. My other offer is for the University of Surrey, which is not accredited by the AVMA. Do you know if/how it is possible to quality for the NAVLE through alternative pathways, if I'm a Surrey graduate?

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Raekuki

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Original post by Chloe.B

This is really helpful thank you!
I 100% intend to practise in Canada after graduation. My other offer is for the University of Surrey, which is not accredited by the AVMA. Do you know if/how it is possible to quality for the NAVLE through alternative pathways, if I'm a Surrey graduate?

You’d have to take either of the two certification programs for graduates of non-accredited veterinary schools: the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG) and the Program for the Assessment of Veterinary Education Equivalence (PAVE).

Reply 18

Euapp

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Original post by Chloe.B

This is really helpful thank you!
I 100% intend to practise in Canada after graduation. My other offer is for the University of Surrey, which is not accredited by the AVMA. Do you know if/how it is possible to quality for the NAVLE through alternative pathways, if I'm a Surrey graduate?

Honestly, I can’t believe that the RVC will lose its accreditation although I obviously have no insider information!!. But it isn’t the quality of teaching that causes the problem but the very small number of students wanting to pass the NAVLE due to its cost combined with the fact that most students wish to remain in the UK. If only 4 students take the exam and even just one fails the school has not achieved the 80% pass rate necessary for accreditation. There is a statistical adjustment used to take this into consideration but it remains a problem and is an issue for many of the UK schools with US accreditation.

(edited 1 month ago)

Reply 19

Raekuki

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Original post by Euapp

Honestly, I can’t believe that the RVC will lose its accreditation although I obviously have no insider information!!. But it isn’t the quality of teaching that causes the problem but the very small number of students wanting to pass the NAVLE due to its cost combined with the fact that most students wish to remain in the UK. If only 4 students take the exam and even just one fails the school has not achieved the 80% pass rate necessary for accreditation. There is a statistical adjustment used to take this into consideration but it remains a problem and is an issue for many of the UK schools with US accreditation.

What I’m not really understanding is that most UK schools have fluctuation of pass rates at times lower than the standards of the AVMA in recent years yet, is it because RVC has consistently had low pass rates that it causes them to be on probationary AVMA accreditation? All I’ve heard from my friend at RVC is that the preparation support is poor and that it contributes to the pass rates.

(edited 1 month ago)

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