Not this fall

[cjsmith]

I will not be applying to UCDavis veterinary school this fall. Biochem (of which I must take at least two quarters) requires previous completion of o-chem (a full year), which in turn requires completion of the chem I'm in during the spring. And no, I can't start o-chem in the summer. It's not offered.

All of this fussing around about fitting the courses in, and it turns out it never would have been possible to do them all in two years. Three = minimum.

This does kind of put the pressure on to get in on my first try. I simply don't have the financial wherewithal to go *four* years before entering vet school.

Good points:
- No GRE this spring!
- May be able to drop physics this spring (and get better grades in what's left).
- More time to gain a variety of animal experience - wildlife, etc. This is huge.
- More time to get to know veterinarians at all these places = potentially better letters of recommendation.
- Opportunity to take some really cool courses I don't specifically need. Micro! Human anatomy!
- Opportunity to beef up the transcript in the humanities.

Bad points:
- Money.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*nod* This is not the first time I've heard that advice, even. Maybe, if I'm truly feeling sneaky, I could fill up the rest of my "full-time-student" status with... oh, say, beginning French!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

And pushing electrons! How could I forget about pushing electrons? Trust me, the damned things won't push themselves. (wanders into the distance, babbling incomprehensibly.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hee! Good point: something like physics/electromagnetism would be another nice sleeper. (Sadly, the obvious -- computer science -- is all on my transcript already, so that would be a little too unsubtle.)