Going into pre-medicine?
I'll be a senior next year and changed my mind and now want to go into the medical corral in college.
Because i havent done my pre-med cirruculum and basics in giant school, will this affect how i do if i get a pred med cirriculum in college
Answers:
yes. it will be harder
It might be a little harder for you since you did not get previous exposure to the sciences contained by high school, but it's nothing that you cannot manipulate. Believe me, going into medicine was the last point in my mind even during my second year of undergrad. I was an art major!! I simply decided to take one science one day and I be hooked! Just remember to keep up with your classes and study hard. Don't hold any assignments or points for granted, they all count! Good luck Source(s): Myself, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Class of 2002
So are you a senior within college? Wow, I would reconsider whether or not you really think that medical school is for you. When I be a pre-med, we started out early (freshman year) with the basics (General Biology I & II and General Chemistry I & II), next sophomore year we finished medical school pre-req's by completing Organic Chemistry I & II and General Physics I and II. You've also got to maintain a solid 3.5+ GPA to be considered "competitive". All four of these courses prepped us for the MCAT, and we still have to complete rigorous studying for it; I'm talking 4-5 hours a day the three months prior to taking the MCAT.
Not to mention all of the volunteer work and extracurricular goings-on that the majority of medical schools want you to be involved in. You must also have some sort of "clinical background" as ably (having at least 40+ hours of shadowing physicians and volunteering at hospitals should be enough).
It's really not easy getting accepted into medical college. You've got have a killer, or at smallest competitive, GPA and MCAT score before even landing an interview. That's why it's sort of dumb to even start thinking of being a pre-med within your last year of college.
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Because i havent done my pre-med cirruculum and basics in giant school, will this affect how i do if i get a pred med cirriculum in college
Answers:
yes. it will be harder
It might be a little harder for you since you did not get previous exposure to the sciences contained by high school, but it's nothing that you cannot manipulate. Believe me, going into medicine was the last point in my mind even during my second year of undergrad. I was an art major!! I simply decided to take one science one day and I be hooked! Just remember to keep up with your classes and study hard. Don't hold any assignments or points for granted, they all count! Good luck Source(s): Myself, UC Irvine School of Medicine, Class of 2002
So are you a senior within college? Wow, I would reconsider whether or not you really think that medical school is for you. When I be a pre-med, we started out early (freshman year) with the basics (General Biology I & II and General Chemistry I & II), next sophomore year we finished medical school pre-req's by completing Organic Chemistry I & II and General Physics I and II. You've also got to maintain a solid 3.5+ GPA to be considered "competitive". All four of these courses prepped us for the MCAT, and we still have to complete rigorous studying for it; I'm talking 4-5 hours a day the three months prior to taking the MCAT.
Not to mention all of the volunteer work and extracurricular goings-on that the majority of medical schools want you to be involved in. You must also have some sort of "clinical background" as ably (having at least 40+ hours of shadowing physicians and volunteering at hospitals should be enough).
It's really not easy getting accepted into medical college. You've got have a killer, or at smallest competitive, GPA and MCAT score before even landing an interview. That's why it's sort of dumb to even start thinking of being a pre-med within your last year of college.
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