<p>I will be a Earth Science major next year.(my school, cal poly, requires a major at application time)
I have been weighing a variety of grad school options, but med school has started to float to the top.</p>
<p>If i major in Earth Science(Geology), do i still have the possibility of going to med school? Also, would i be competitive during the admissions cycle with this major?</p>
<p>Possible Concentrations, with classes that would be taken under them.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer.
Would you say i have the same chances as other majors(Chem/Bio/etc) for med school?
And is it fine with med schools if i take certain classes(Bio, maybe Calc) at Community College?</p>
<p>Don’t take pre-reqs at a community college. Your application will be weighed equally to those with other majors, what will count is what is inside the application.</p>
<p>Yes apumic, i understand that any major can technically apply to med school. I’m trying to get clarification on a few debatable points. Very few Geo majors go this path, so not much specific info in available. </p>
<p>I hear alot of varying advice on where to take pre-req’s. Can admissions reps really tell where the class was taken?</p>
<p>Of course - you have to send med schools official transcripts from every post-secondary school you’ve ever attended.
Also, if that weren’t explicit enough, some med schools have you list the details (course names, unit hours, grades, and institution) of pre-reqs on the secondary application.</p>
<p>Sorry. Nothing you asked was really debatable. If you look at the AMCAS datasets it’s pretty clear which majors are at a significant disadvantage (vocational/health sciences) and at a slight disadvantage (bio) as opposed to those at a slight advantage (physical sciences) and those that are avg (bx sciences, humanities). Get information from the primary sources (i.e., AAMC, AMCAS, etc.) whenever possible. That’s often what the rest of us look at when answering a question anyway…</p>
<p>I’m unfamiliar enough with the profession that i didn’t even know that list existed until now… I appreciate the list.
There are no “stickies” on this topic, so I assumed it was a pretty decent question.</p>
<p>I’d like to point out that just because there is a difference in acceptance rate doesn’t mean that those majors are preferred or advantageous. So much goes on before applications are submitted that is not described by the data available. Correlation =/= causation. The only clear disadvantage that has been shown is that a number of medical schools look down on most vocational programs.</p>