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COOPERATIVE ADMISSIONS PROCEDURE

 

At its 1996 meeting, the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Council agreed to make significant changes in the admissions process for veterinary medicine.  The council agreed to make the following changes:

  • There will be no “early acceptances” (students receiving offers in November or December who meet special GPA and GRE criteria).

  • Beginning with admissions for 1997, no “targets” or “quotas” will exist for any cooperating vet med school.  Students will be free to accept the school of their choice, subject to school interest.

  • Students will not be permitted deferred enrollment should they decide to delay admission.

  • Schools will be permitted to place “at large” offers to WICHE certified applicants at any time as outlined below.

To accomplish these changes, WICHE staff has developed the following procedure for veterinary medicine admissions for students entering Fall 1997.

The Procedure in Detail:

  1. When applying for state certification, each veterinary medicine applicant will be given a copy of this Cooperative Admissions Procedure, and sign both a “Statement of Understanding” and a “Statement of Intent” form.   Please see each form for details.

  2. By November 15th, each state certifying office will send an alphabetical listing of certified applicants to the WICHE Boulder office.

  3. As is currently done, a collective listing of certifications will be sent to each cooperating veterinary medicine school.

  4. As soon as possible after the application deadline for cooperating schools, the vet med schools at CSU, OSU, and WSU will rank applicants from each state, using their regular admissions criteria.  (For example, if the list from one state contains 25 names, and all of the applicants applied to a school, the student “most qualified” will be ranked #1, the “next most qualified” will be ranked #2, etc. to the “least qualified,” which would be ranked #25.)  No two students can have the same number ranking, and students will be only ranked against others from their own state.

  5. These rankings will be returned to WICHE Boulder as soon as completed.   The information provided by these schools will be consolidated, resulting in a single integrated ranking for each state, with the #1 student being the “most qualified” of all certified students from that state.

  6. Prior to offers being made, WICHE Boulder will provide schools with an alphabetical list of certified applicants who will be funded if accepted to a WICHE program.  For example, if Montana expects to support five (5) students, only five names from Montana, in alphabetical order, will be given to the vet med schools.  A limited number of “alternates” will be designated in each state should vacancies occur as detailed in #10 below.

  7. At a date agreed to by all cooperating vet med schools (presumably in February), all WICHE schools will be eligible to make offers to as many or as few WICHE certified students as they choose.  Using the list provided by WICHE Boulder, the schools will know which students can be supported.  Students will have until April 15th to respond to all offers.

  8. At this time and thereafter, vet med schools may also make “at large” offers to students who are NOT expected to be WICHE supported.

  9. The names of all students receiving offers (supported and “at large”) will be reported to the WICHE Boulder office at the time the offer is made.  Those names will be reported individually to the certifying offices.

  10. After the April 15th deadline, vacancies created by students who decline all funded offers or elect to attend a school out-of-region will be filled by WICHE Boulder indicating the “next ranked” (alternate) student in any given state.  That name will be given to all vet me schools, and they will proceed as in #8 above, giving the student two weeks to respond to the offer(s).

  11. For those students applying to the University of California, Davis, that program has agreed to make up to a maximum of two (2) offers to certified applicants each year.  However, these offers will be designated nonresident, and not supportable through the WICHE PSEP program.