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Cornell's VMCAS & Supplemental Deadlines Extended to November 2. Due to the severe damage Hurricane Georges brought to Puerto Rico and the Southern U.S., many applicants who planned on applying electronically to Cornell's DVM Program have not been able to meet our deadlines due to downed power and communication lines. Therefore, we have extended both our VMCAS/Cornell deadline and our Cornell Supplemental deadline to November 2, 1998. To avoid questions of fairness and verification of whom the storm affected, the new deadline is extended to all Cornell DVM applicants. Applicants who met our original deadlines who wish to add a new Letter of Evaluation may do so by sending it directly to Cornell by November 2, 1998. Cornell's DVM Program does not pre-screen applicants before requesting completed Supplementals. Therefore, all VMCAS applicants applying to Cornell must also complete a Supplemental and postmark it by November 2, 1998. Applicants must print, sign and enclose with their Supplemental application the deadline extension notice posted at our web site in order to take advantage of this extension. Go to: Do Veterinary Technician Programs Enhance a DVM Application? The short answer is no. However, for those who want a career working with animals and who may not be competitive for DVM Admissions, a veterinary technician degree offers a nice "Plan B." The reason these degree programs do not enhance an application for DVM admissions is simple: Veterinary technician programs train students for lower level clinical skills, while DVM programs train students to understand, diagnose, and prescribe treatments, all higher level and different skills than that of a vet. tech. To accomplish these training goals, a medical/veterinary education consists of two to three years of theoretical study, while veterinary technician programs have much less theory and more clinical training. DVM pre-requisites stress the academic/theoretical ability of a student, the clinical experience is good to have but is not as essential as the pre-requisite coursework. So if you do not gain admission to a DVM program should you enroll in a veterinary technician program? Our advice would be to go onto graduate school, preferably in a biology or medical-related program. However, if graduate school is not appealing to you and/or you are not sure what you would do after graduate school if you still did not gain admission to a DVM program, perhaps a veterinary technician program would be right for you. Most veterinary technician programs are two-year programs and require only a high school degree before enrollment. For a listing of veterinary technician programs around the country, page down to the end of this newsletter. This week is National Veterinary Technician Week. Cornell solutes all veterinary technicians who support veterinarians and our profession. With their hard work, many, many animals have been nurtured back to good health. A Unique Curriculum: Potential Transfer Students Please Take Note Most veterinary medicine programs can accept DVM transfer students, but due the nature of our curriculum, Cornell currently cannot. The organization of our academic program is truly distinct; courses are highly interdisciplinary and are taught in sequential blocks of time. Unfortunately, it makes it impossible for us to accept transfers. In time, this may change as more medical and veterinary schools modify their curricula. Exactly how is our program so different? Most medical/veterinary programs offer a traditional lecture-based program. In the past, we did, too; ourstudents were in lecture halls from 8am to late afternoon, most days of the week. Since 1993, we have taken our students out of the lecture halls and put them in small groups of six or seven students. These groups, with the support of a professor, discuss actual clinical cases or problems rather than listen to long lectures. We have still retained some lectures and traditional laboratory exercises, but a significant portion of our academic program is conducted in interactive, small group settings. Small group learning is the predominant mode for courses in the first two years of the curriculum, and students are expected to learn information from many disciplines at once. These features, and the way in which courses are sequenced, make years one and two of our curriculum very different (when compared to other schools) for students who may be interested in transferring to Cornell. To learn more about our unique curriculum, please visit our web site at: /about/edu.htm We can accept students from other veterinary schools for clinical rotations, or externships. Students applying for externships at Cornell must have completed the academic program at an A.V.M.A. accredited veterinary school. For more information on externships, visit our web site at: Free Search Service for Scholarships & Grants A pre-veterinary student who recently visited Cornell told us of a web site that may help you find scholarship offerings which could match your interests, accomplishments and future goals. To use this free service to search more than 400,000 scholarships, visit the "fast-web" web site at: http://www.fastweb.com It took about ten minutes to complete their form. The site's privacy policy states that they will not release your name or address without your permission. They do not ask for your Social Security number nor other confidential data. You Are Invited to Open House, April 10, 1999 Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine will hold its 33rd annual Open House on Saturday, April 10, 1999, from 10am to 4pm. More information on Open House will be given in future newsletters. Pre-veterinary students: During Open House the Director of DVM Admissions gives four similar presentations on how to gain admission to veterinary school. There are three presentations for high school students and one is for college/adult students. Past attendees have said that the information provided during these presentations has been extremely useful. We hope you can visit us during Open House. Cornell's DVM Admissions Web Site Home Page /admissions/ Past Newsletters & Selected Articles All Newsletters /admissions/newsletters.htm August 1998 April 1998 February 1998 December 1997
Your Home State Veterinary College Is Always Your Best Bet September 1997
Is Veterinary Medicine More Difficult to Enter Than Human Medicine? June 1997
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