It now takes more than good grades to get a chance to become a great veterinarian at this P.E.I. college [Video]

Students at Atlantic Veterinary College still need good grades to become great vets, but from now on, the school says life experience will play a larger role in the people it selects to study there. 

Up until now, academic achievement held the most weight in the application process for the Charlottetown-based college, accounting for 60 per cent of a potential student’s score. 

If their grades were high enough, applicants would qualify for an interview that counts for another 20 per cent, with the remaining marks coming from a behavioural aptitude test. 

“Essentially, the entire decision on whether or not an applicant would get an interview came down to their academic score,” said Dr. Anne Marie Carey, the AVC’s dean of academic and student affairs as well as a member of the college’s class of 2006. 

“But there’s a lot more to being a successful veterinarian. So yes, we want to …