Gator Vet Camp Program Description: The Gator Vet Camp Summer Program is a one-week residential experience designed to recognize talented high school students and provide them with enriching academic and personal exposure to the veterinary medicine profession and college life. The program’s rigorous activities, shared experiences, and challenging exercises help participants identify courses important for college readiness and explore potential careers in veterinary medicine. Gator Vet Camp is committed to offering opportunities to students, particularly those who are first-generation, low-income, or have limited previous exposure to veterinary medicine but possess some animal experience. The online application portal will open on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 and will close on Friday, March 1st at 5:00pm EST.
Camp dates are scheduled:
- June 08-13, 2025 (rising 10th and 11th graders)
- June 22-27, 2025 (rising 12th graders)
Mini Gator Vet Camp Program Description: The Mini Gator Vet Camp Summer Program is a four day residential hosted in South Florida. designed to recognize talented high school students and provide them with enriching academic and personal exposure to the veterinary medicine profession and college life. The program’s rigorous activities, shared experiences, and challenging exercises help participants identify courses important for college readiness and explore potential careers in veterinary medicine. Mini-Gator Vet Camp is committed to offering opportunities to students, particularly those who are first-generation, low-income, or have limited previous exposure to veterinary medicine but possess some animal experience The online application portal will open on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 and will close on Friday, March 1st at 5:00pm EST.
Camp dates are scheduled:
- July 06-09, 2025 (rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders)
As a participant in the Gator Vet Camp, you will get the opportunity to:
- Tour the College of Veterinary Medicine and their various facilities
- Practice clinical skills
- Work with current Vet Med faculty, staff, and students on independent projects
- Learn about little-known specialties in veterinary medicine such as wildlife, large animal, fish, and more!
Important Information:
This program is available to Florida Residents ONLY. Students must make a commitment to attend and participate in the entire program. Please confirm no other academic, school-related, sports, or family events will conflict with the program dates
Application Fee: $ 25 (Application fees are non-refundable even if an application is rejected or waitlisted or in the event that a program is canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other circumstances beyond our control.)
Program Cost:
- Gator Vet Camp:$1,200
- Mini Gator Vet Camp: $800.00
- Financial assistance is available to participants with demonstrated need and can only be requested once a student has been accepted into the program.
Application Requirements: Applicants must create an account in our online application portal in order to apply for any student programs offered by UF CPET. The online application portal will open January 15, 2025. All components are submitted using the online application process unless noted. After all the below components of the application are completed, student must log into their account and SUBMIT their application.
A GVM Application consists of the following:
- User Information: Provide applicant and parent/guardian contact information.
- Application Form: Additional information as well as answering writing prompts. You will submit an unlisted YouTube video, no more than 3 minutes long to introduce yourself, while answering the three essay questions
- Prompt 1: What qualities do you hope to bring as an aspiring veterinarian?
- Prompt 2: Why should you be selected?
- Prompt 3: What extracurriculars have you been involved in?
- Endorsement Form: One online Endorsement Form filled out and submitted by a high-school or college-level math, science, research, or computer science teacher or mentor is required.
- Guidance Counselor Form: Online Guidance Counselor Form filled out and submitted by your current guidance counselor. For anyone who does not have a guidance counselor, please contact our office directly at 352-392-2310.
- High School Transcript: Submit your unofficial transcript with first semester (Fall 2024) grades to UF CPET via the application portal (Either as a .PDF, .JPG, or .PNG).
- Application Fee (Offline Task*, see note below): The link to pay the $25 Application Fee is available from www.cpet.ufl.edu. Students attending a Florida High School who qualify for free and reduced may request an Application Fee Waiver.
- *Offline Tasks: In the application portal, students are required to acknowledge the requirement of the each of these “offline” portions by clicking “submit for approval”. The CPET office will log receipt of the each requirement. Please note that our system may be automated, but our process isn’t! When you send your transcript, we still need to look it over and make sure it has everything we need before a person goes into the system to let you know that we’ve received it. This can take up to three business days based on how many applications we are receiving simultaneously. After the requirement is logged, students will need to complete the section by clicking “complete” in the on-line portal.
Contact students@cpet.ufl.edu or call the CPET office directly at 352-392-2310 for any questions regarding Gator Vet Camp.