The Application Process
The application process is long and involves many steps and veterinary schools have to sift through a lot of applications to fill a few slots every year. University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine (UGA-Vet) got 547 applicants for the class of 2008 and accepted into their program 96, that is only an 18% acceptance rate and that means they have a lot of work to do to get those applicants sorted down to the best ones. (Note: UGA-Vet is not the only veterinary school in the country, but I will use it throughout these advising pages simply as a representative sample, they are all similar). To do the sorting, they go through a process that is very impersonal in the beginning, but becomes more and more personal as the process goes along. Below you will find a flow chart of the process that is applicable to almost all veterinary schools across the country.
