It is not an academic requirement, but one must love animals to become a veterinary doctor.
The academic requirements to be accepted at a college of veterinary medicine are similar to those that are required to enter any academic program. These requirements include good grades, good exam scores and certain prerequisites specific to the program that the applicants wish to pursue a higher education in. Fulfilling all these academic requirements as well as carefully completing your application forms and providing strong recommendation letters and a thorough persuasive personal statement will increase your chances of getting into veterinary school.
Educational Requirements
You must complete prerequisite courses. You can take these courses while pursuing an undergraduate major such as animal science, zoology or biochemistry. These courses are animal nutrition, biochemistry, biology, calculus or logic, chemistry, composition and writing or public speaking and communications, genetics, humanities and social sciences, microbiology, physics and statistics. You need to check with each school you plan to apply to and get its specific list while you are pursuing your bachelor's degree. If your school does not offer the required classes, you can look into different options such as distance learning.
Grade Point Average
You must average a cumulative GPA and a required course GPA between 3.0 and 3.5, depending on the school you are applying to. If you are applying to a state school, it might have different requirements for residents and nonresidents of the state.
Graduate Record Exam
The GRE test has verbal, quantitative and written analytical sections. The test has questions that measure skills and knowledge gained over a long period of time. You must have taken the test within five years of your application. You must submit the code of the schools you plan to apply to when you register for the exam so that the GRE scores are sent electronically. A good score exceeds the 50th percentile. The higher your score, the better your chances of being accepted to veterinary school.
Experience
You must have approximately 400 hours of clinical, medical, agribusiness, health science or medical related scientific research experience. More experience, especially more supervised experience, will increase your chances of acceptance. You need to check with each school you are applying to for what its specific hour requirement is and plan ahead of time.
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