Admitted? Where is everyone?

Wlu789
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:39:45 +0000

I’m a science student and will speak to the “weeding out.” There is definitely a “weed out” effort but I think it occurs more from individuals rather than the program as a whole. And mostly (like at most colleges) comes from the chemistry department. My freshman year I was planning on majoring in biology and going into a health profession (which did not include med school) and I got an A in my intro bio class as well as another bio elective. I wasn’t doing so great in gen chem (ended up with a C+ though, so it’s not like I was going to fail). I went to my professor for help in the class and he told me that not only should I reconsider a career in the health professions but that I should also change my major to something like history lol. I didn’t listen and have continued to do very well in my other science classes. But the program as a whole doesn’t have that whole committee thing some schools do where if they don’t think they student is good enough they will refuse to write them a med school rec.

It’s definitely a hard program but if you put in the effort and genuinely know what you want to do you won’t be prohibited from continuing.