Finally, I was able to regain enterance to this forum again! My former name was Splitdoc, so some of you may remember my last posts. I was hopeing to adress the topic of post bac programs for vet school. I read BradMcC17's post and I thought I would share my knowledge on the subject, so here is what I know! First, there is a specific post bac program for vet school, and it is the only one in the USA, which is at Drexel University School of Medicine and its called the Veterinary Medical Science Post bac program. It is a one year program designed to get you in to vet school, and it is actually the 1'st year of the MLAS (Master of Laboratory Animal Science program), so if you do not do well enough to get into vet school you can continue with the masters degree in Laboratory Animal Science (if you like that field). I had the opportunity to speak with someone who completed the MLAS program at Drexel and is now at Penn Vet, so I can varify its helpfulness. Also Cornell stated that there is no foolproof way to vet school, except the program at Drexel (so take that for what its worth)! Like the other posters stated, there are various ways to utilize pre-med post bac programs for vet school. I am doing just that! I am currently at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in the Biomedical Science program studying to improve my GPA for application to Penn in June 2004. I also was accepted to Drexel's MLAS program, but I wanted to be in their VMS post bac program, so I chose PCOM. Now, as you can imagine I do not completely fit in with this crowd at PCOM, in that I am this young stapping farm boy from rural east central PA, and the rest of my classmates are more than likely city lovers, who want to wear the white coats, and stethoscopes (most don't seem like they like dirt on those coats either, if you know what I mean, but they also seem a little smarter than me too!)LOL! The point here is this...in this program at PCOM we are taking approximatly 30 or so credits, with the biochemistry, and gross anatomy course each weighing in at 9 creditits a piece! Now this my be a little intense for most people, but I figure if I did a graduate program at some other school that was less known in Philadelphia, and they had a biochemistry class that was only worth 3-5 credits, it would decreass my odds for acceptance at Penn Vet. So far I have a C average in the mid 70's so maybe this was not the best decision for me, but I am confident I will end with an A, or B, and increas my GPA dramatically. So, I am sory for the long post, but I hope this helps with your decisions. I wish everyone out there the best of luck! Remember it is the love and dedication we all share! (oops no spell check!)
