A Few Questions About Transferring...

entomom
Fri, 08 Nov 2013 21:49:48 +0000

The career counselor I spoke with and my previous advisor is who said I may have trouble if I received a Psychology degree. Even then I wasn’t going to switch majors, but the Pre-Med advisor would only accept Biology majors; so I switched.



I’m going to be frank, these people don’t know what they’re talking about. See this thread:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214387-what-should-premed-major.html?highlight=major

Or do a Search for ‘major’ on the Premed Topics forum, which major to choose is a FAQ.

quote I also have that C from my first Bio course that was under DE. Should I retake these during the summer, along with taking Gen. Chem. II?




As I said earlier, when you apply to med school, every grade you ever took (even if not on your transcript) will be counted, whether your school counts it in your gpa or not; AMCAS calculates your gpa themselves. As far as Bio, your C and whatever grade you get with a retake will both be used to calculate your gpa; see page 37:

https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf

It would be a better idea to take an upper level bio course and do well in it.