tm2000

Hey guys. I am very interested in Cornell. One, because they have undergrad business. Two, because their course schedule is flexible enough to allow one to fit in the pre-med reqs within the business program, which is a quality quite rare of schools. To make sure the business/premed thing was possible at Cornell, I made a 4 year schedule, and I am wondering if any Cornellians out there can look it over and see if it is ok. I believe I am missing some free electives (maybe like 2-4 courses) and an ECON course. Making the schedule was surprisingly easy, compared to other schools. Although, I believe I must have a mistake somewhere, for each semester I only have 4 courses. Anyways, here it is (format might be messed/bunched up. The class farthest to the right is the spring semester class). Keep in mind that I am assuming I will AP out of calc (I got a 5 on AB, so im assuming I will get a 5 on BC. Also I APed out of 3 credits of Writing, so there are only 3 writing classes in the schedule):


CORNELL

Year1

ECON 101 (get to 7 credits?) ECON 102
Bio (with lab) Bio (with lab)
Writing COMM 203
AEM 101: Intro to App Econ/Mgmt AEM 220


Year 2

AEM 22 1 AEM 323
AEM 210 Computers
AEM 240 AEM 241
Chem (with lab) Chem (with lab)

Year 3

Orgo Chem (with lab) Orgo Chem (with lab-maybe not)
AEM 320 AEM 200 (writing)
AEM 324 Humanities
Physics (with lab) Physics (with lab)

Year 4

AEM 424 AEM 412
AEM 419 AEM 420
H ADM 422 NBA 300
Humanities Immunology



Although I have recieved a 5 on AP Chemistry, I think I will stick with the intro class. Maybe this is a bad idea, because I will get stuck in the weed-out class. If any of you can offer some better options, my ears (or eyes I guess) are wide open. And if there is any way to avoid a weed-out class, I would like to know. Does a summer session help in that regard, or does the intense studying balance out the lack of "weed-out...age."

Thanks so much!

ecc

Why would you want to be a pre-med/business major? It doesn't make too much sense to me. If you want to be a doctor, you don't need the business background to help you be a great doctor. Plus, med schools will be pretty confuse as well. On the other hand, if you want to make lots of money fast as an Ibanker, why would you bother to go through all the harsh premed courses? It makes more sense for you to take all the easy classes to pump up your GPA and get involved with more internship experience.

hnbui

i would recommend against taking orgo and physics your junior year. it's just way to late.

tm2000

Quite the contrary in my opinion and many others. Having a solid business background as a doctor can help very much. Medicine isn't the only thing doctors deal with. Whether they have to worry about merging their practice with someone else's or starting up their own clinic. There's many situations in which a business degree would help. Besides, I am interested in both... that's what really matters.


How come you thing orgo and physics is too late? Wouldn't it be good to have the information fresh in your mind? Plus, they are chaning the MCATs by the time I get to college. They say the test will be offered as much as 20 times a year! I'm sure that will provide for a june/july test date.

If I just had orgo in my junior year, would that be ok? I am taking AP Physics next year, so I will have some sort of background and be able to study out of prep books.

tm2000

Oh and I figured out I was short 3 courses. I think I added biochem/microbio/and immunology.

hnbui

biochem, micro, and immunology are not prereqs for the mcat not most medical schools. Of the three, the only one i would recommend that you try to take is biochem, and that's after orgo.

I would suggest that if you must try to span your prereqs in 3 years then take gen chem and gen bio your first year and then orgo your second and then physics your third.

You have to actually put everything into focus. If you are just planning to take one science class a semester; how well will you perform in medical school?

If you need anymore helpplanning your schedule just pm or aim me.

hnbui

"If I just had orgo in my junior year, would that be ok? I am taking AP Physics next year, so I will have some sort of background and be able to study out of prep books."


wait you're not even in college yet? are you kidding me? Just chill and worry about highschool.

tm2000

hehe. just wanted to make sure it was possible to do this at Cornell.

hnbui

yeah you definitely need to worry about highschool. I don't understand why you are planning out your schedule when you haven't even applied, much less accepted.

mercury

Get in first.

tm2000

because I am trying to figure out which schools I want to apply to. I want to make sure Cornell can do this. Don't want to be pretentious lol, but I don't want to be somewhere and realize I can't do what I want to. Just taking precaution lol. Business and medicine is an odd combo; I wouldn't be doing this if I wanted to major in history or something that is common.

Tahoe

Cornell recently recognized the need to "promote interdisciplinary collaboration between business and the new life sciences." The Susan Eckert Lynch Professorship in Science and Business in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has been established to support that goal. You might want to apply to CALS as an Applied Economics and Management (AEM) major and continue to pursue your interest in the sciences. Press release on the above named professorship can be found at:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...rship.ssl.html

Tahoe

The pre-med advising link might help you gain some insight as well:
http://www.cals.cornell.edu/Premed_advising.cfm

shizz

It's easy to fit pre-med requirements into any program of study (except maybe architecture)

hnbui

you know you don't have to major in business.You can get a combined md/phd or md/mba post grad.