What does it thieve to be a Neurosurgeon?
Its my first year in community college and I'm taking pre-med classes...
I want to transfer to UCLA then I am going to apply to Stanford and Harvard medical school... after will I get into the residency of my choice? and also how much should I be studying in my science classes to get excellent score on the mcat to get into Stanford or Harvard?
Answers:
Neurosurgery is an 8-year residency. Selection after medical school is highly competitive.
Your grades within medical school, along with any volunteerism or research, will determine which residency will accept you. Of course, the MCAT is really essential, too.
You ask "how much should I be studying....?"
Good grief; if you get all A's in pre-med, you will have a handle on just how much you "need to study". All the medical students, interns and residents I've spoken to during my 20 years in lessons hospitals have said "you study until"-- until you have those A's, and they'd better be high ones, at that. A's typically scrounging that you know most of the information-- 95% or better of it.
I seriously doubt any medical school will count CC classes as pre-requisites. They are not of alike level of difficulty, and you may have to re-take those classes at a 4 year school.
I don't know nearly you, but I studied very little and got A's anyway. I took no prep courses, just read a few review books, and did incredibly well on the MCAT.
It's not how much you study, but how much you learn. I know people who studied a LOT but never have a shot at med school. Then there were those of us who studied occasionally, worked 20-30 hours a week, volunteered at a hospital, and have an active social life, but had no trouble person accepted into medical schools.
Don't limit yourself to Stanford or Harvard. There are plenty of excellent medical school, and a degree from any of them will still put "M.D." after your name. Source(s): I'm a physician - educated at state school and very successful.
You really shouldn't be taking the prerequisites at a community college. Why are you even going to a community college if you're thinking about Stanford and Harvard? Hopefully you know by now that these are impressively expensive schools, and if you can't even afford to get into UCLA, then how do you expect to get hold of into these schools? Granted, we're all going to buried in debt once we're done, but why not merely go to UCLA and take the prerequisites there?
I have no life as a pre-med. I took chemistry, biology, physics, calculus, and philosophy my freshman year. I received A's in all my classes, but also have no social life (except of course if you count the three organizations I be involved in where I was volunteering 40 hours a month). For my sophomore year, I took natural chemistry, biochemistry, human anatomy, and a couple of others. That was even worse, but I still maintained a 3.8+ GPA throughout college. Mind you, I went to Yale University so I manifestly wasn't the only one who was taking on a heavy class nouns.
For the MCAT, I took a preparatory class and also studied 4-5 hours a day 2 months prior to actually taking it. I received a 39 on that.
Overall, I spent about 25-30 hours a week studying while I be a pre-med. I received excellent grades, but I also got things easier and faster than others so you may have to study more than I did. Source(s): Stanford med student
Excellent responses above. Add this nugget to the equation.
Although medical schools do not measure your classwork in the "hours" that undergrad does, we still know the formula when I was in med school, and we calculated that we took the equivalent of 24-27 semester hours, respectively semester, year in and year out. Talk about NO social life. Studying WAS my social time.
You really sure you want to pursue this?
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I want to transfer to UCLA then I am going to apply to Stanford and Harvard medical school... after will I get into the residency of my choice? and also how much should I be studying in my science classes to get excellent score on the mcat to get into Stanford or Harvard?
Answers:
Neurosurgery is an 8-year residency. Selection after medical school is highly competitive.
Your grades within medical school, along with any volunteerism or research, will determine which residency will accept you. Of course, the MCAT is really essential, too.
You ask "how much should I be studying....?"
Good grief; if you get all A's in pre-med, you will have a handle on just how much you "need to study". All the medical students, interns and residents I've spoken to during my 20 years in lessons hospitals have said "you study until"-- until you have those A's, and they'd better be high ones, at that. A's typically scrounging that you know most of the information-- 95% or better of it.
I seriously doubt any medical school will count CC classes as pre-requisites. They are not of alike level of difficulty, and you may have to re-take those classes at a 4 year school.
I don't know nearly you, but I studied very little and got A's anyway. I took no prep courses, just read a few review books, and did incredibly well on the MCAT.
It's not how much you study, but how much you learn. I know people who studied a LOT but never have a shot at med school. Then there were those of us who studied occasionally, worked 20-30 hours a week, volunteered at a hospital, and have an active social life, but had no trouble person accepted into medical schools.
Don't limit yourself to Stanford or Harvard. There are plenty of excellent medical school, and a degree from any of them will still put "M.D." after your name. Source(s): I'm a physician - educated at state school and very successful.
You really shouldn't be taking the prerequisites at a community college. Why are you even going to a community college if you're thinking about Stanford and Harvard? Hopefully you know by now that these are impressively expensive schools, and if you can't even afford to get into UCLA, then how do you expect to get hold of into these schools? Granted, we're all going to buried in debt once we're done, but why not merely go to UCLA and take the prerequisites there?
I have no life as a pre-med. I took chemistry, biology, physics, calculus, and philosophy my freshman year. I received A's in all my classes, but also have no social life (except of course if you count the three organizations I be involved in where I was volunteering 40 hours a month). For my sophomore year, I took natural chemistry, biochemistry, human anatomy, and a couple of others. That was even worse, but I still maintained a 3.8+ GPA throughout college. Mind you, I went to Yale University so I manifestly wasn't the only one who was taking on a heavy class nouns.
For the MCAT, I took a preparatory class and also studied 4-5 hours a day 2 months prior to actually taking it. I received a 39 on that.
Overall, I spent about 25-30 hours a week studying while I be a pre-med. I received excellent grades, but I also got things easier and faster than others so you may have to study more than I did. Source(s): Stanford med student
Excellent responses above. Add this nugget to the equation.
Although medical schools do not measure your classwork in the "hours" that undergrad does, we still know the formula when I was in med school, and we calculated that we took the equivalent of 24-27 semester hours, respectively semester, year in and year out. Talk about NO social life. Studying WAS my social time.
You really sure you want to pursue this?
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