ADHD and bad at math and physics - PreMed?

Jweinst1
Fri, 08 Aug 2014 06:46:22 +0000

UC Berkeley student here~

First off, unless you feel impeccable about your calculus skills, take Math 1A and 1B and not 10A 10B. The math 10 series is an accelerated version of the 1 series with many more topics, like statistics, linear algebra, probability, combinatorics, etc. I would start with Math 1A your first semester.

Second, doctors are made, they are not born. No one can be born with the skills and knowledge to practice medicine, you must learn it. Medical schools are determining if you could survive medical school as a student, and the residency that comes after that. There is no med student that knows how to treat an intermediate risk Rhabdomyosarcoma or to excise a Glioblastoma in the superior temporal sulcus on the first day of class, but what they do have is the drive and eagerness to learn anything they can, no matter what the trouble.

Just because some subjects don’t come natural to you doesn’t mean hard work won’t let you succeed at them.