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VMCAS Application Available August 13 The VMCAS on-line application is expected to be available on August 13, 2001, and most schools have an October 1 deadline. Cornell also has an October 1 VMCAS deadline. The VMCAS fee is $125 for the first school, $50 for each of the next 5 schools. VMCAS Link http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/howtoapply.htm#VMCAS Admissions Visitation Day, Saturday, September 15 Would you like to visit our veterinary college on a Saturday? We often host visitations on Friday afternoons, but on September 15, 2001, we will open our doors for those who prefer to visit on a Saturday. The afternoon program will consist of two presentations (one for high school students and one for college/adult students) on the college and its admissions policies, and then an extensive tour of both the teaching and clinical facilities. We may also offer a roundtable discussion among visitors and our current students (depending on the availability of current students). It is absolutely necessary to pre-register for this visitation day as the number of seats available is limited. To register send mailto:vet_admissions@cornell.edu with your subject line to read: “September 15 pre-registration.” We will acknowledge your pre-registration and inform you whether you have been given a seat. The visitation program is free for all those who attend, however, we must have an accurate count in order to arrange tour guides. (Tour groups cannot exceed 10 visitors per guide as larger groups can disrupt clinical activities.) Please pre-register today. FAQ: Do All Groups Learn the Same Material at the Same Time? In the first four foundation courses of Cornell’s DVM curriculum, students orient their studying around the learning issues that are generated by their tutorial group of 6 students, guided by a faculty tutor. All 14 tutorial groups are working through the same written case at the same time, guided by the same course objectives. At the end of a course, students take an individual exam that tests them on their understanding of major course concepts and their ability to apply their knowledge to new problems. There are a number of ways we ensure that all students are guided toward the major objectives for each week. First, faculty have designed and carefully written each case to address particular basic science objectives. Faculty tutors meet to review each case the week before it is tutored, so all tutors are familiar with the case and the main principles it highlights. Tutors also have a written "tutor guide" -a teacher's guide to the case that helps them ask the right questions to prompt students to delve into key aspects of the case. Each course also has a course guide, which contains a statement of course objectives that can be used as a generic template of questions and tasks that can be applied to each case encountered in the course. For example, in Course I: The Animal Body, students should, for each case, trace a drop of blood from the heart to the target organ and back to the heart. There are more than two dozen such generic course objectives to focus students' study. Finally, complementary lectures and labs also reinforce the major concepts of the week. It can be difficult to learn to trust your own and your group's ability to identify appropriate learning issues (and to pursue them to the appropriate depth), but it is an important skill to develop. Until that confidence develops, some students like to compare their learning issues with that of other groups, by visiting tutorial rooms where learning issues are posted on flip charts or by comparing notes with classmates from other tutorial groups. One advantage of the tutorial approach is that it is responsive to the needs and interests of the students. While there are major learning issues that will be common across all groups, the way those learning issues are expressed, the order in which they are pursued and discussed, and the ways in which they are discussed will vary from group to group. Each person and each group will have different preferred ways of thinking about the material and may come with different backgrounds and prior knowledge and experiences. Each group may also identify minor, idiosyncratic learning issues that reflect the interests and experiences of the members of the group. In the end, though, all groups will address the same main ideas for each group. Written by Dr. Kathleen Quinlan Should I Enhance My Application With Additional Education? With so many applicants competing for entrance to veterinary college, it's fair to ask if additional academic preparation, such as obtaining an advanced academic degree, would enhance your chances for admission. As with most such questions, the answer has to be equivocal. It depends on whether or not you have previously applied, what feedback you received if you were not accepted, what graduate programs are available, what courses are offered in that program, the cost of the program in terms of time and dollars, etc. Even then, no program can guarantee admission to veterinary college. MCP Hahnemann University, in Philadelphia, offers a Master of Laboratory Animal Science (MLAS) degree. It is the only such graduate program in the country, and in addition to those students who want a career in laboratory animal science, it attracts many students who desire additional academic training prior to applying or reapplying to colleges of veterinary medicine. For the latter group of students, approximately 70% of those who have applied to veterinary schools have been admitted. MLAS is heavily academic, with many courses in the basic life sciences, including Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases, Basic Pathology, Physiology, Molecular Genetics, Anatomy, etc., These are complemented by courses such as Financial Management, Organizational Management, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Architecture and Engineering of Laboratory Animal Facilities, and more. For further information, contact MLAS at mlas@drexel.edu or go to their web site at http://mcphu.edu/mlas Cornell May Soon Visit a City Near You Please come listen to a presentation by Cornell’s
Director of DVM Admissions, who will be presenting in these cities
-- or at the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY -- on or near these
dates: Topics to be discussed: Please register with us by sending mailto:vet_admissions@cornell.edu Registration/admission is free, but we do need to know how many to expect in order to arrange an appropriate number of seats at each location. Please wait until our next newsletter to register for locations that do not indicate a college campus. *Respond Today -- these sessions will be held only if interest is expressed from enough pre-vets in the area. The director will be on vacation traveling through these cities and will hold a session if you and others request a session. Presentation site locations will be announced to those who express interest. Please indicate in your email subject line your city of interest. **Please register with us by sending mailto:vet_admissions@cornell.edu with the subject line: "Registering for presentation at..." Registration/ admission is free, but we do need to know how many to expect in order to arrange an appropriate number of seats at each location. ***Be sure to Register-- these sessions will
be held only if interest is expressed from enough pre-vets in
the area. The director will be traveling through these cities
on other business and will hold a session if you and others request
a session. Presentation site locations will be announced to those
who express interest. Please indicate in your email subject line
your city of interest. Cornell's DVM Admissions Web Site Home Page http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/ Past Newsletters & Selected Articles All Newsletters http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/newsletters.htm
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