Follow the steps below to ensure that your application to the professional veterinary medicine program is complete, accurate, and on time!

DVM Application Procedures

Application to one or more of the combined programs or the FAVCIP program is embedded in the regular admissions process, i.e. via an essay question on the Colorado Supplemental Application. The same DVM degree program application deadlines apply for all of these combined programs. For more information on these programs, please use the following links:

DVM/PhD Combined Program
MBA/DVM Combined Program
MPH/DVM Combined Program
Food Animal Veterinary Career Incentive Program

1. Applicants to CSU's veterinary program are required to submit TWO applications:

   1) VMCAS Application
   The deadline is OCTOBER 2, 2012 11:00am MT.

   2) Colorado Supplemental Application
   The deadline is OCTOBER 2, 2012 11:00am MT.

2. Submit the following items to VMCAS
   (Please see the VMCAS website for instructions.):

   1) VMCAS Application

   2) VMCAS Application Fee

   3) Letters of Recommendation (VMCAS e-LORs and ETS-PPI Evaluation Report)

   You will need to submit three completed VMCAS electronic Letters of Reference (VMCAS e-LORs) to VMCAS before October 2.

   Colorado State University’s (CSU) veterinary admissions process requires the ETS® Personal Potential Index and will require you to also submit one ETS PPI Evaluation Report (to contain three recommendations) before October 2. To be sure your evaluation report arrives at CSU before October 2, applicants should submit a request to ETS before October 1, to have their ETS PPI Evaluation Report sent to CSU Veterinary Medicine (code 8300 and dept code 0617). The 8300 code is a different code than the code used for GRE test scores.

   Important:   All applicants will need to request three recommenders to submit a VMCAS  e-LOR AND an ETS PPI web-based evaluation (for inclusion in the ETS PPI Evaluation Report). BOTH the VMCAS e-LORs and the ETS PPI Evaluation Report are required; therefore, applicants should ask their recommenders to write and submit the VMCAS e-LOR and the ETS PPI online evaluation.   For more details, please see ETS-PPI Instructions. 

3. Submit the following items to the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences:

   1) Colorado Supplemental Application
   This will include application subsets if applying to one or more of the combined programs or the FAVCIP program.

   2) CSA Application Fee ($60)
   Fee must be paid by electronic credit/debit card (Visa, Mastercard or Discover) at time of submission.

   3) GRE Scores
   The Graduate Record Examination (GRE¨) General Test (Verbal and Quantitative) is required. Test scores with dates earlier than October 1, 2007, will not be accepted.

   It is the applicant's responsibility to schedule the test on or before SEP 28 so s/he can self-report her/his Verbal and Quantitative unofficial scores into the Colorado Supplemental Application before the deadline October 2, 2012 (11:00am MT).

   NOTE: The self-reported/unofficial Verbal and Quantitative scores must be entered into the application in order to submit the application (the analytical score is not required).

   4) Official GRE Scores
   Applicants should submit a request to their testing center, before OCT 2, to have official scores sent to CSU. (GRE¨ code 4075, Dept code 0617). Official scores should be received by November 30. In December, official scores will be used to verify all applicant self-reported/unofficial scores before offers are made.

   5) Graduate Program Release Letter
   If you are made an offer/alternate status and you are enrolled in a graduate program, you must submit a release letter before January 20 from your major advisor or department head indicating approval of your application to the DVM Degree Program and that a satisfactory arrangement has been made regarding your graduate program. Offered graduate students will be admitted provisionally, pending receipt by January 20th, for evidence of completion of, or release from, graduate studies. Please email the letter to dvmadmissions@colostate.edu.

   6) Transcripts
   Only offered and alternate candidates will be required to mail one official transcript from each university attended. Include grades from fall semester 2012 if fall courses were taken (see address below). All international transcripts of offered/alternate candidates must be processed through a transcript evaluation service. All transcripts should be postmarked by January 20th.

   NOTE: No transcripts should be submitted at the time you submit your application.

   Colorado State University
   Professional Veterinary Medical Program
   1601 Campus Delivery - CVMBS Office of the Dean
   Fort Collins, CO 80523-1601

   All offers will be provisional based on subsequent verification of VMCAS-reported courses and grades. In addition, the fall transcript (if enrolled in fall courses) must not reflect a dramatic negative change in academic performance.

   All international transcripts of offered or alternate candidates must be processed through one of the transcript evaluation services. Applicants must contact the service to request an evaluation application, complete the application listing the DVM program, Office of the Dean, CSU (see address above) as the recipient, and return it to the service with the required fees and transcripts. The transcript evaluation service will forward its evaluation and grade conversion report to CSU. Note that this can take up to four weeks to complete after all documents are received. Check with the service(s) for their specific fee structure(s).

   One-semester study abroad or semester at SEA courses are exempt from the transcript evaluation requirement. If your study abroad included prerequisite courses, and these courses are not listed on an "evaluated" transcript nor on an official transcript from your home institution, please ask your Registrar's Office or adviser to write a letter stating the courses, credits, and grades received. If you are offered a position in the veterinary program, submit this letter to the CVMBS Office of the Dean (see address above).