Admissions FAQ. Candidates applying for admission to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program at CSU must complete the following prerequisite courses:. A single course may only count toward one prerequisite. You must identify a unique course for each prerequisite requirement.
Online courses are accepted if they are taken for credit with a grade and show as completed on an official transcript. Courses taken at vocational and proprietary schools will not be accepted. AP courses must appear on an official transcript. Biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, and systems physiology must have been taken within the last ten years. All other prerequisite courses are recommended to have been taken within ten years.
A recent demonstration of an ability to handle an upper-division biomedical science curriculum is strongly encouraged. All prerequisite courses β including in-progress courses β must be included in the VMCAS application at submission. This includes completed, in-progress, and future courses you plan to take. If a course is not matched to a prerequisite in an application, it will be assumed you have not and do not intend to take the required prerequisite.
Candidates may apply before completing all required courses and can be admitted under provisional admission. If provisionally admitted, final transcripts must be received by July 15 of the year you matriculate. Provisional admission may be granted for the following in-progress prerequisites: biochemistry, biology lab, cell biology, chemistry lab, genetics, physics, statistics, and systems physiology. Please do not send application materials or transcripts outside the application; only what is included in your application will be reviewed.
The course description, content level, prerequisites, number of credits, and a grade of C- or above must meet these requirements. For examples of courses that meet each requirement, please see our list of sample course descriptions. If after reviewing our list of prerequisite courses and sample course descriptions you are still not sure if a particular course will meet our prerequisite requirement, you can submit a course evaluation request must be submitted by September 1.
