Vet Up!® The National HCOP Academy for Veterinary Medicine Program Eligibility Requirements

Vet Up! is open to individuals who are:

U.S. citizens
Non-citizen nationals
Foreign nationals who possess a visa permitting permanent residence in the United States

Participants must also establish an educationally or economically disadvantaged background by meeting two or more of the following criteria:

The individual is an underrepresented minority with respect to race or ethnicity.
The individual is from a rural background.
The individual is the first-generation in their family to attend college (neither parent nor legal guardian completed a Bachelor’s degree or higher).
The individual graduated from (or last attended) a high school that, based on the most recent annual data available, had:
- Less than 60% of seniors receiving a high school diploma; or
- Less than 60% of graduates going to college the first year after graduation; or
- Over half of the enrolled students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches.
Low family annual income based the 2019 Poverty Guidelines and validated by federal income tax return. A family is a group of two or more individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together. A household may be only one person.

Size of Parents’ Family*	48 Contiguous States and D.C.	Alaska	Hawaii
1	$24,980	$31,200	$28,760
2	33,820	42,260	38,920
3	42,660	53,320	49,080
4	51,500	64,380	59,240
5	60,340	75,440	69,400
6	69,180	86,500	79,560
7	78,020	97,560	89,720
8	86,860	108,620	99,880
For each additional person, add	$8,840	$11,060	$10,160

* Includes only dependents listed on federal income tax forms. Some programs will use the student’s family rather than his or her parents’ family.

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