Can't Take Calc in High School, should I bother applying for Pre-Med courses?

[WayOutWestMom]

You live in a “good” state, OP!

Take the PSAT this year. UOklahoma offers very generous scholarships to National Merit Finalists. (So good, in fact, that my optometrist’s daughter who was a NMF passed up top scholarships at her in-state options to to go to OU.)

http://www.ou.edu/admissions/nationalmerit.html

U Oklahoma’s med school has very strong in-state bias in admission and in-state tuition is that is only $22K/year. (A bargain!!!)

Here’s OU SOM admission requirements–it doesn’t require calculus (or any math classes, for that matter)!

http://www.hippocrates.ouhsc.edu/comweb/pdf/OU%20COM%20Brochure.pdf

OU also offers advising to those who are interested in attending OU COM

We provide an advisory option for individuals interested in applying to medical school. To optimize our time spent advising applicants, we are going to hold informational sessions and will provide an overview of the requirements, process, and statistics. We will have a question and answer period followed by a brief medical student led tour. We hold this advising session on the first Monday of the month. If the first Monday is a holiday, we will hold the session on the second Monday of that month. It is very important that applicants know their attendance at one of these sessions is not required and does not influence their application result.

Oklahoma also has a extremely highly regarded osteopathic medical school. Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa. It also give strong preference to OK residents in admissions.

It also does not require calculus (or any college math) for admission.

http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/com/admissions/