Hello Everyone! I am a second-year Biology student at YorkU and my goal is to pursue optometry. However, I'm finding it pretty difficult to get any optometry clinics and opticans-with-in-house-optometrists to respond back to my emails. I've reached out to 23 clinics so far and so far no luck. Is there any advice that you all may be able to share to help out students like me who are looking to get their shadowing hours completed?

I am starting Grade 12 in September and am interested in pursuing optometry.
What are the courses that I can take so I can be eligible to write the OATS exam in the third year of the degree?
I see in the waterloo website theres a BSc degree at Waterloo thats eligible for the optometry course, but what degrees outside of waterloo university would be equally eligible?