Year 13 Vet Med Applicant with 5 offers - Ask me anything!

Ooh that’s amazing well done! I’d love to do vet med, still in year 9 so a way off but it’s good to start thinking about it I guess
If you don’t mind me asking what was the application process like for you and which GCSEs/alevels did you do?

Hiii everyone!! My name is Jess and I have now finished my Alevel exams and I’m hoping to do my best over this summer to help as many people who are planning to apply to vet med this year or anytime in the future 💖
I have offer for RVC vet med and RVC gateway to vet med, Edinburgh, Nottingham, H&K

Don’t feel shy to ask anything at all!!! I’m here for you guys so use me to your advantage ☺️

Where there much differences in your offer grades?

Hiii everyone!! My name is Jess and I have now finished my Alevel exams and I’m hoping to do my best over this summer to help as many people who are planning to apply to vet med this year or anytime in the future 💖
I have offer for RVC vet med and RVC gateway to vet med, Edinburgh, Nottingham, H&K
Don’t feel shy to ask anything at all!!! I’m here for you guys so use me to your advantage ☺️

hi I hope you are well, I was just wondering if you could help give me some clarity. I have been trying to get work experience in vet clinics but literally no one will take me on, for now all I have is volunteering at an equestrian farm for 2 weeks and volunteering at RSPCA animal shelter. I am also partaking in the online vet work experience provided by notts uni to try give me some more insight. im just worried this won't be enough

Hiii! That sounds like some good work experience so far! I’d also recommend doing the online work experience organised by vet mentor. If you’re planning to apply to the RVC then unfortunately this will not be enough as they have a 70 hour clinical work experience requirement. Ideally you’d have at least a week at a clinic so my suggestion is to keep trying to email some places even if it means travelling a bit more for it (I know it sucks sm because I barely had any responses too!) if you send me a dm of where ur based I might be able to help out with finding places or recommending places if I’m nearby!
I know finding work experience is tough and usually vet schools are understanding of this but definitely keep trying and don’t give up!!
Hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any more questions 💖

thank you so much for your reply its given me much more insight - just a quick query. So the place I partake my horse riding lessons has a job come up as a yard assistant as part of the veterinary practice. so my question is if I was to get a job at a vet practice can this be counted as work experience or not? thank you

I think it would be brilliant to gain experience there even if it weren’t counted as work experience officially so definitely hop onto the opportunity. I reckon you could probably ask them to write you a reference stating work experience/volunteering rather than job 😄 hope this helps!

hi, thank you so much for your help. ive managed to find 2 places that have got back to me out of around 50 vets I enquired to. However both of them are asking for a quick meet-up as there is a popular demand for work e😝 students and so they want to see who would be best fitted. Do you have any tips for this meeting? how I should dress/ what to say?

Hiii everyone!! My name is Jess and I have now finished my Alevel exams and I’m hoping to do my best over this summer to help as many people who are planning to apply to vet med this year or anytime in the future 💖
I have offer for RVC vet med and RVC gateway to vet med, Edinburgh, Nottingham, H&K
Don’t feel shy to ask anything at all!!! I’m here for you guys so use me to your advantage ☺️

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Hello! Do you have any tips on applying to RVC vet med, Edinburgh and HK? Specifically for the SAQs as thats what I am doing now. Thank you so much!! x

Hiii everyone!! My name is Jess and I have now finished my Alevel exams and I’m hoping to do my best over this summer to help as many people who are planning to apply to vet med this year or anytime in the future 💖
I have offer for RVC vet med and RVC gateway to vet med, Edinburgh, Nottingham, H&K
Don’t feel shy to ask anything at all!!! I’m here for you guys so use me to your advantage ☺️

Hiii everyone!! My name is Jess and I have now finished my Alevel exams and I’m hoping to do my best over this summer to help as many people who are planning to apply to vet med this year or anytime in the future 💖
I have offer for RVC vet med and RVC gateway to vet med, Edinburgh, Nottingham, H&K
Don’t feel shy to ask anything at all!!! I’m here for you guys so use me to your advantage ☺️

hi,
I'm a bit late for this year but was just wondering - another post on here said 'Some uni’s may advise you can use a gateway as a 5th choice, but UCAS have advised that it cannot be used as a 5th choice -and it’s their decision. However, you can use vet bioscience or animal science etc as a 5th choice.'
how did applying to RVC gateway work? did you do anything special or did UCAS just let you?