I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I want to become a zoologist. I plan on attending The University of Cincinnati to pursue zoology. I love animals and I want to work in a zoo taking care of animals. I don't know what field I should pursue or what classes I need to take. Could someone please provide me with information that will help me to become a zoologist?

I personally don't know.
However, I bet if you went to your local zoo, and talked to the person in charge, they could set you up with talking to other people at the zoo, so you could see what each person does, and therefore get a better idea of what you want to do.

homebirthmom is absolutely correct... but I'll put in a thought. What you might want to be looking at is a veterinary degree.

The job you are describing--taking care of animals in a zoo--is a zookeeper job, not a zoologist. A zoologist is basically a biologist who specializes in animals, not plants. So a zoologist could study ground squirrel genetics, or how stress affects relationships among baboons. Zoologists are usually researchers. Some larger zoos employ researchers, so you could major in zoology. But that will not train you to work in a zoo.
Zoologist Job Description, Career as a Zoologist, Salary, Employment - Definition and Nature of the Work, Education and Training Requirements, Getting the Job

If you want to be a zookeeper, you need to know some biology, but also some basic veterinary medicine and, depending, on whether you want to work directly with the animals or run the zoo, some business management skills. Many zoos have to work very hard to bring in donations and other funding, so some knowledge of "development," getting people to give you money, would also be useful. If you want to focus just on the animals, I would recommend learning as much as you can about comparative animal physiology and animal behavior, diseases of wild animals and diseases and conditions of captive animals

I would recommend that you pursue all of these aspects over time to make yourself as valuable as possible. But start with the parts that are most interesting to you, to keep your enthusiasm up.

According to this website, low level zookeepers don't make much money.
Zookeeper

Also check out the links at the bottom of this page--to zoos, etc.
Zookeeper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Good luck!

PS. Don't forget to learn something about plants as you go, because a lot of animals eat plants and you can understand how animals and plants interact better if you understand where plants are coming from. :)

Hi, I'm a student in year 11, or the last year of compulsory schooling here in the UK. I am just about to enter my exam period and upon getting the grades required I will enter sixth form for two more years until I am 18. Then if my A-levels and my results from my sixth form exams are good enough I hope to go on to study Zoology in a University and to eventually become one. The problem I feel I face though is that I have selected Biology, Geography, History and English to study in sixth form. Then just as I figured out that I perhaps should have taken Chemistry do I also find out that it is to late to change one of my choices to Chemistry, History perhaps. Now I feel that despite getting good enough grades in Biology and Geography (related to Zoology losely) that I may not be able to study Zoology at a university as one science will not be enough and that I will need two. This is a problem I cannot shake and because of my love of Canines and Wolves especially I want to pursue this cause really badly. Any answers will be fantastic.

Hmm... Interesting... In general in the US I believe you'd be able to simply pick up the chemistry in the first year of college/university... although it is a very good thing to have had a course in high school as well. Apparently the British system is a bit more strict?

What classes and education do I need to b-come a zoologist?