DO MED SCHOOLS CARE

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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So I decided on going to UCLA to major in Anthropology which gives me the best chance to maintain the 4.0 GPA. Will Med schools care about this major? I will take all the pre-reqs on top to have the science GPA.

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no

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“So I decided on going to UCLA to major in Anthropology which gives me the best chance to maintain the 4.0 GPA”

  • I hope you have a real valid reason to pursue Anthropology. The goal of maintaining the 4.0 GPA is NOT a good enough reason to pursue any major. I hope that you choose this because you feel that you will enjoy it, that you have real personal interest in this field…

    Med. School does not care. I knew a Med. School applicant who graduated from the Conservatory of Music. He did not choose it for the GPA consideration though. If your heart is not there, it is not easy at all to maintain 4.0 at the selective place such as that one. Overall, I have seen successful pre-meds around my D., many of whom took a risk in UG, pursuing their interests and NOT calculating too much how their GPA will be affected. Those usually come out on top. Medicine after all, requires a great passion. There were kids who were into music, art, languages and they plunged into all of these with all their heart and it made their life more interesting, more memorable…
    Go for whatever you hear desires, but work hard at everything!
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@MiamiDAP Great answer, and I concur 100%.

Unfortunately, @NuyIsBae 's thread is not legitimate. Yesterday at 3:45 pm he had decided to go to UCLA for Anthropology, followed by Med School. By 4:59 pm he was already in UCLA, maintaining a 4.0 average and planning to study economics in grad school at Oxford or LSE. And five days ago he was hoping to study economics at Penn State or ASU because state schools are not as rigorous as private schools and “I want a school that’ll give me a better opportunity or (sic) maintain a 3.8+ gpa.”

Note to OP here: One maintains a 3.8 GPA in college by studying hard, consistently and effectively.

A month ago OP posted that he had just started his junior year of high school. He says he has a GPA of 89, and an SAT of 1850.

OP is not going to LSE, Oxford or to medical school. Anyone who responds to his posts with a thoughtful answer is, again I say unfortunately, wasting his or her time.