re: Ranking the SEC Veterinary Schools

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Anywhere from $60k to $1 million.

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You typed all that just to give him the answer he was looking for at the end

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Everyone hates coming to see you.

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Yeah but that doesn't seem like enough, especially now that dentists have gotten a lot better at doing what they do without the excruciating pain they'd have to inflict in the past. And if we're honest everyone hates lawyers, mechanics, CPAs, and plumbers too. Pretty much any occupation where you're paying someone a lot of money for something you don't want to have to do in the first place but know you have to/need their services.

Kentucky gets Auburns ranking by default. Kentucky has an agreement with Auburn to send a certain number of their kids to Vet School at Auburn.

PS: first time I saw LSU’s Vet School I knew the building was modeled exactly after Auburns.

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Since the subject of suicide has come up. Veterinarian’s do have a high rate of suicide. The way it was explained to me was because we perform euthanasias almost on a daily basis, some Vets just consider suicide “a next step”. Euthanasia solution is readily available to us, so it is a very common way to attempt suicide.
As small/close as the Vet community is, it is unfortunate that some don’t reach out for help.

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I was thinking along similar lines regarding vets. Most vets love animals and having to euthanize them, especially family pets, would take an enormous toll. And what you said makes sense that euthanasia being treated so differently with animals would change the way you think about suicide as an option for ending suffering, at least a little bit.

MDs and Police officers also make sense - those are super stressful jobs for obvious reasons. I just don't see the link with dentists beyond long hours and the usual worries most professions have.

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Dawgvet

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Even though I’m an UGA Vet school graduate, Cornell and Cal-Davis are considered the top Vet schools in our field. All schools tend to have a “specialty”. Neonatal equine medicine- Florida (due to the proximity to Ocala) Cancer research/treatment- Cornell Transfers portal injuries - A& M

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How did this get overlooked.

Well done sir

First off whoever said stress-free job has no F’n clue. At least pediatricians sign up to deal with parents and get paid to do so. Vets just get constantly yelled at for charging anything to save the member of the family. And the vast majority of vets don’t make a ton of money. Starting salaries have come up, but that is just because newly graduated vets have a ton of loans to pay back.

With the incursion of corporate medicine into vet world, the only millionaires are the late baby boomers/early gen-exers who were lucky enough to go to get school when it was still relatively dirt cheap, then owned practices when people started being more willing to spend money in pets, and then sold those practices to the corporate overlords willing to overpay. While specialists are making mid to upper 6 figures (though they also lose earning years to internship and residencies), the vast majority of practicing vets probably make between 100k-200k. And you are often working 10-13 hr days.

Only the partners of the big equine places are making a huge amount of money. And they do that by damn near killing the associate vets, much like law practices. Just look up the Hagyard scandal a few years back.

I doubt there is any bad vet school out there. And the less prestigious ones which might have fewer residents and interns are probably letting the students do more hands on which in turn means they are graduating a far more confident and experienced vet.

Cornell is a weird semi private, semi public school. Also not the only Ivy League vet school as UPenn has a vet school as well.

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Since the subject of suicide has come up. Veterinarian’s do have a high rate of suicide. The way it was explained to me was because we perform euthanasias almost on a daily basis, some Vets just consider suicide “a next step”. Euthanasia solution is readily available to us, so it is a very common way to attempt suicide.
As small/close as the Vet community is, it is unfortunate that some don’t reach out for help.

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My wife is class of 2017 UGA. Two of that class has already offed themselves. It is real and it is sad.

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I don’t think distance was what I was implying here. They would have driven to Texas A&M if that’s what needed to happen to save the horse’s life

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Thanks for your paw paw's anecdote from 1974. US News and World Report will take this under advisement.

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Bunch of people who weren’t good enough to be a doctor lol

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Vet school is infinitely harder to get into than medical school except under affirmative action.

There isn’t affirmative action at A&M. They take nerds who commit to a hard degree to begin with. If you told me those grads are making less than 100k for what their degree costs, the level of difficulty, etc, I’d say your crazy, but the guys here say vets don’t make much, which I find hard to believe still