Did ruin myself for ever doing premed or nursing?

charlieschm
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:53:13 +0000

You have to seriously think about whether you have what it takes to not only get into a good college as a pre-med major, but to actually make it all the way through. A very high percentage of pre-med majors end up finding other majors once they are in college.

Most nursing schools are very competitive for admission, but there are enough programs that if you don’t care about a name school, and you have moderately good grades and scores, you should be able to find a program.

In general, most colleges look favorably upon a student who shows a very positive trend - who does much better in their junior year than their freshman year. Some will defer admission until they see your mid-year senior grades if they have doubts about your consistency.

However, for the extremely selective colleges, they have so many highly qualified applicants, they only admit students who do well in all years of high school, unless they had a personal crisis one year.