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Sarah Firebaugh of Salem, Va. (24153), was recently admitted to the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech.

The 95 new students in the Class of 2013 were issued white laboratory coats and administered the “Veterinary Student’s Oath” during a white coat entrance ceremony.

Firebaugh received a Bachelor of Science degree in animal and poultry sciences from Virginia Tech in 2009.

Admission into the nation’s 28 colleges of veterinary medicine is a highly competitive process. Almost 900 individuals applied for admission to the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine’s Class of 2013 and 200 personal interviews were conducted to select the new students.

The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine<http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/> (http://www.vetmed.vt.edu) is a two-state, three-campus professional school operated by the land-grant universities of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and the University of Maryland at College Park. Its flagship facilities, based at Virginia Tech, include the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, which treats more than 40,000 animals annually. Other campuses include the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, Va., and the Avrum Gudelsky Veterinary Center at College Park, home of the Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine. The college annually enrolls approximately 500 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and graduate students, is a leading biomedical and clinical research center, and provides professional continuing education services for veterinarians practicing throughout the two states. Virginia Tech, the most comprehensive university in Virginia, is dedicated to quality, innovation, and results to the commonwealth, the nation, and the world.

Submitted by Christy Jackson.