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Pre-med and football
BlueDevilFan
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I got accepted to GT yesterday (I put my panned major as BME). I am wondering if anybody could shed some light on the difficulty of of being a pre-med/ engineering student. I have also been offered a scholarship for football so please take this into consideration as well. Playing football would mean I would graduate in 5 years (I would red shirt). Thanks.
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What are your stats? Include breakdown of test scores.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1624149-best-option-for-pre-med-p1.html
Myron Rolle was a few years ago, too....
Lets ASSUME football has been in existence for ONLY 100 years, not counting the professional teams, there are only 2000 college football teams, each team has only 50 players and each player plays all four years in the school. The math is as follows
100 x 2000 x 50 / 4 = 2.5 Million players, out of that many players, the number of students went to medical school are very few and far between.can we say 1000? if so that is .04%
and I imagine that not even a 1000 went on to med school.
I know of one premed football player from my son's undergrad. He wasn't a superstar player. I think he did red-shirt. He applied to med school AFTER he graduated....no time to interview during senior year football season.
I think GT's premed courses will be filled with superstart students. You'll be competing with the best and brightest for the A's. Likely, you wont' end up with a med-school-worthy GPA from GT....particularly with THAT major.
If you decide to do premed, don't do engineering. The courses are tooooooo sequenced, which won't work well with a football player who needs to manipulate his schedule each fall.
What else are you strong in? What other majors interest you, but won't be sequenced and won't be ball-busting like eng'g?
Since you'll be red-shirting, you will have an extra year, but don't red-shirts still have to attend all the same practices and conditioning?
I would try to lay out your entire college years' schedules using a different major.
Take Bio and Chem classes only during spring semesters. Same with Physics. I think GT requires all students to take 2 semesters of Calc. If so, and you're strong in math (maybe having taken AP Calc) then take Calc during Fall semesters. I don't know if GT allows use of AP English credits for Frosh Comp, but if that is allowed, take advantage of that.
It is do-able, but only attempt this with a strategy that you've run by people here or similar. You will likely make naive missteps if you try to figure this out on your own. There are a lot of minefields.
What other subjects do you like and would be strong in? .
WOWZA. I know several med students (myself included) who were D1 athletes in non major sports (i.e. not football, basketball, baseball) or who were those sports at the D3 or club level but D1 football on a team of that caliber is rare company.
D1 athletics gets a special boost over other ECs at the med school level but this plan is scary. I would definitely agree that if pre-med is the plan don't do engineering unless it's really the only thing you can imagine doing because the less labs and more flexibility you have the better.
The other option of course is to simply plan on a post-bacc. Get through college only concerned with football and your GPA (still avoid engineering) and then do a 2 year post-bacc/SMP. With 5 years in UG though you may not want to add more plus those post-baccs/SMPs usually don't have any aid.
How much is GT without football?
http://alumni.harvard.edu/stories/exploring-possibilities
At first I thought you were talking about this guy: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/ivy/story/2011-11-14/yale-patrick-witt-rhodes-scholar/51213758/1
Either way, ivy league football is only 10 weeks. No conference championship game, bowls or FCS tournament. GT would be 12 games and potentially up to 15 (conference championship and then with the new playoffs could play 2 more games). Additionally, the ivies have stricter hours restrictions than any other conference (e.g. that's why the ivies don't participate in the FCS tournament, not allowed to have any practices or competitions during reading period or finals.)