Which School Is Best?

Well, I am partial to TCU, being a Horned Frog myself, but Texas A&M (which is where I went my freshman year before transferring to TCU) has the only vet school in Texas. The next closest vet school is OSU. If you're talking about the quality of education, then both schools are excellent. A&M has great programs, but is enormous. TCU has caring faculty (and good programs too) and is quite small. Bottom line: your daughter is eleven. She's got plenty of time for that. Let her pick which one she wants to put up, and if she can't decide, let her put up both (maybe TCU for undergrad and A&M for vet school? Then she can root for both). I suspect that with a caring mother like you, she will succeed no matter where she decides to go to school. =)

Well if you are trying to put up stuff for colleges that have a Vet. school then A&M would be the choice since TCU does not have a vet. program. My husband is a Veterinarian and he graduated for Oklahoma State University. I think you have a better chance getting into vet. school if you do your undergraduate at the same school. A & M has a great vet. school as well and the only one we have in Texas. My suggestion is look online and pull up all the closes schools that have a vet. program and put some stuff up from a couple of different colleges. You can also call the schools and get Vet-Med college parapheranalia.

I say let her choose... and she's likely to change her mind when she is older (both about the career and the choice of schooling).

If she wants to be a vet it looks like she will be going to A&M ;o)

I'm not an Aggie fan, but if you're looking for the best vet school, you have to go with A&M - no contest!

Well since I live with an Aggie I am biased...but Texas A&M is the best vet school. All four of the vets we have used were all Aggies. We have a neighbor who is a vet and went to A&M too.

What a cool mom . . . however, you should give your idea a second thought. What if you LOCK her into a school idea at age 11, then she gets offered a great full-ride journalism scholarship to Harvard for her work on her high school newspaper??? Might she turn that down so as not to disappoint you? Instead of a college-themed stuff, how about decorating the room with vet-themed stuff? - - We have a ball python and a hedgehog and a fire-belly toad in my 12-year-old son's room that I'd love to hand-down to you! lol : ) Good luck, whatever you decide!

I have daughters that graduated from TAM and TCU. No question about it TAM for vet.education. TCU is great but in my experience more social, TAM more kind and conservative.

Texas A&M has a great vet school and even though it is a large school,it has a very nurturing atmosphere. It seems smaller than it is and the perk is that it is an excellent "state" school and the tuition is much better than TCU. I agree that her chances of getting into their vet school would improve if she did her undergraduate work there. It has a great reputation and the spirit of the school can't be beat. Note to your daughter, study hard and make sure she stays in the 10% group to guarantee that she can get into A&M. It gets tougher and tougher every year with the Texas state schools with that rule.

A & M is the best for vet ed....

My nephew wanted to be a veterinarian before he joined the Air Force. When his mother and him were researching schools they found out that Texas A&M was the best. :-)

I have always heard that Texas A&M is the best for veterinary medicine but that's only what I have heard. No experience.

TCU is definitely best..... GO FROGS!!!!!.........

BUT......if she's wanting to be a vet, then she'll for sure need to go to that "other" school....... :-)

~B.

A&M has one of the best Veterinarian programs in the country. If that's the field she's interested in, then I would stress A&M, as she will likely have to finish up there anyway.