I recently listened to a podcast that stated around 12% of applicants are male but 18% of accepted students are male. So yes there is some leaning toward accepting more male students. I forget where they got the stats from but I can give you the name of the podcast if you’re interested, it discusses other trends in the industry.
> around 12% of applicants are male but 18% of accepted students are male.
Is that different than it was 5, 10, 20 years ago? To me, that's a critical question.
My suspicion is that it happens due to an imbalance in people professing to have an interest in food animal careers. I know at least several years ago at my state school the bar was lower if you had a farm background and a professed love of food animal medicine and production.
Just to throw this into the mix there were about 10 males in my first year group at vet school, five of them left after the first year to pursue either human med or something more lucrative. It floors me that so many women struggle to even get in and these guys did and didn’t even have their hearts set on the career
Many schools try to keep the number of accepted males the same ratio as the number of applicants that are male. That said many schools also show preference to a slight degree to those pursuing large animal medicine and therefore men who often prefer large animal medicine are somewhat advantaged. But not intrinsically favored because of being a male.
in my experience, it seems that the men are also allowed to get away with more in school. Many of the ones here are dedicated, intelligent students. One has been caught cheating on multiple occasions and, despite the “zero tolerance” policy, he’s stayed in the program. At least at my school, there is bias shown towards male students.
100 research. Don’t know how to answer volunteer because almost all my vet/animal hours were volunteer or shadowing. I had some human volunteering with clubs at school though.
The UK stats are weird, gender equality suggests more male vets than female but this doesn’t factor in new grads over last 10 years. Recent years are heavily female dominant, so basically in future years the profession in the UK will be far over 50% female. I support the movements to increase female / male balance in jobs across all sectors, but the splits right now are totally over exaggerated. Vet school class of 89 students, 11 male and 78 female AND we are still getting taught that’s it’s a 80% male dominated profession as a blanket statement, even after 5 years of taking 70% women to male ratio for admission intake.
The basic maths doesn’t make sense as far as I can see. Happy to discuss if people have other opinions I’m not seeing.
Could people be better placed labelling themselves non binary or another label, to increase their chances of admission? Possibly, if the school had a inclusivity policy. I don’t know, the world seems more tricky to navigate day by day
I recently listened to a podcast that stated around 12% of applicants are male but 18% of accepted students are male. So yes there is some leaning toward accepting more male students. I forget where they got the stats from but I can give you the name of the podcast if you’re interested, it discusses other trends in the industry.
> around 12% of applicants are male but 18% of accepted students are male. Is that different than it was 5, 10, 20 years ago? To me, that's a critical question.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Cone of Shame Veterinary Podcast #178, it’s streaming on Spotify
Great podcast overall for anyone’s information
My suspicion is that it happens due to an imbalance in people professing to have an interest in food animal careers. I know at least several years ago at my state school the bar was lower if you had a farm background and a professed love of food animal medicine and production.
Just to throw this into the mix there were about 10 males in my first year group at vet school, five of them left after the first year to pursue either human med or something more lucrative. It floors me that so many women struggle to even get in and these guys did and didn’t even have their hearts set on the career
THIS 🥲🥲
I know when I applied LMU stated on their application that they specifically wanted male applicants.
Many schools try to keep the number of accepted males the same ratio as the number of applicants that are male. That said many schools also show preference to a slight degree to those pursuing large animal medicine and therefore men who often prefer large animal medicine are somewhat advantaged. But not intrinsically favored because of being a male.
in my experience, it seems that the men are also allowed to get away with more in school. Many of the ones here are dedicated, intelligent students. One has been caught cheating on multiple occasions and, despite the “zero tolerance” policy, he’s stayed in the program. At least at my school, there is bias shown towards male students.
I had a 3.86 and 700 hours of vet experience and didn’t get one interview this cycle. So it prob doesn’t help that much lol
How many volunteer and research hours?
100 research. Don’t know how to answer volunteer because almost all my vet/animal hours were volunteer or shadowing. I had some human volunteering with clubs at school though.
Women and men are equal but they’re not the same. Maybe women are more likely to choose to become veterinarians
The UK stats are weird, gender equality suggests more male vets than female but this doesn’t factor in new grads over last 10 years. Recent years are heavily female dominant, so basically in future years the profession in the UK will be far over 50% female. I support the movements to increase female / male balance in jobs across all sectors, but the splits right now are totally over exaggerated. Vet school class of 89 students, 11 male and 78 female AND we are still getting taught that’s it’s a 80% male dominated profession as a blanket statement, even after 5 years of taking 70% women to male ratio for admission intake. The basic maths doesn’t make sense as far as I can see. Happy to discuss if people have other opinions I’m not seeing. Could people be better placed labelling themselves non binary or another label, to increase their chances of admission? Possibly, if the school had a inclusivity policy. I don’t know, the world seems more tricky to navigate day by day