<p>Just curious but what did you guys end up doing as EC during your first summer after freshman year. I’m trying to think ahead now in terms of what I can do but since I’m transfering I already ruled out research since no want really wants a freshman let alone a transfer. For shadowing is it basically just watching a doctor do his job or is the whole purpose to get involved as well? If so what can you do besides doing small errands? I foresee the same problem with Hospital volunterring in that I won’t get any meaningful experience out of it =(</p>
<p>Between MD and MD/PhD programs, in general, which one is easier to get in?</p>
<p>MD, by far.</p>
<p>Well…reading this has all been incredibly depressing…I chose berkeley over several more grade-inflated schools, mostly because of location and money (I’m on a regent’s scholarship) and am wavering on regret over my decision. does anyone have any advice on how to make the best of my situation? this summer I had a job at the johns hopkins school of medicine in a lab, and I’m trying to find good community volunteering opportunities to simultaneously do something meaningful and to show the med schools I care (I really do!), but what else should I do? also, I was planning on double majoring in molecular and cell biology and economics because I really like economics, and it’s also more humanities and may help set me apart from the hundreds of other pre-med mcb majors, but after reading all this “take easy classes and the bare essential med school reqs because only high grades and mcats matter, not your classes” I’m not so sure I should double major anymore. still though, I also really like mcb, and the med school requirements are pretty much the same as the mcb reqs. or so I think.
what think you? especially you, sakky, because you know berkeley.</p>
<p>Hey I have a question for anyone who is reading this post… Could you list some college’s that i should apply to near arizona, where I could get in with a 3.6 gpa and where it has a good reputation for academics.</p>
<p>“and it’s also more humanities and may help set me apart from the hundreds of other pre-med mcb majors”</p>
<p>Economics is a social science, not a humanities! It will still set you apart, though.</p>
<p>which is why I said more humanities.</p>
<p>It may be me, but I fail to see it.</p>
<p>Can I take a college physics class in high school, and then not have to take physics in college??? </p>
<p>And if I can, would that look bad in the eyes of med school admissions?</p>
<p>if you apply to and MD/PHD program…is there a chance that they’ll reject you for the combined but take yo ufor the MD part? or no that’s totally out-of-the question</p>
<p>I think it’s BS how schools take kids based on “easy class” grades rather than judged on difficulty. Like someone else said, I try to remember that medical schools are composed of intelligent people who have been where I am at right now and know the struggle of takign harder classes. Why don’t they factor this in? I hear people saying how easy classes are better, but why don’t med schools factor this in? It makes no sense. That is like saying a kid with a 4.0 in high school can get into Harvard taking all regular classes, while someone taking 10 APs but with 2 Bs won’t. Makes no sense at all…</p>
<p>I hear what your saying, but who is to judge how easy or difficult a class is? And how would you suppose med school admissions go about deciding how hard they are? They do take into consideration the reputations of different colleges but there is so precise way in finding out how much harder one is from another</p>
<p>Steve-O you bring up a good point. However, I just hope med schools look at the courses individual applicants take and not just weed out people based on GPA alone. Someone please tell me this is so.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything about Ross University school of medicine?</p>
<p>Can I infer that applying do a DO school is just as difficult as getting into an MD school?</p>
<p>It’s usually considered easier.</p>
<p>exactly how hard is it as a pre med? i want to go to cornell and I’ve heard so many horror stories of late night coffee runs and hundreds of pages of reading to do every night. And not just cornell but pre med in general, is it basically no life in college?</p>
<p>Absolutely not. It is tougher than most majors but the competitiveness of premed, organic chem, and Cornell has been exagerrated.</p>
<p>Then again, I’m sitting in Olin Library drinking an iced latte and reading my hundreds of pages of psych reading. J/k (about the hundreds of pages of reading at least…)</p>
<p>So that’s weird, because I just got back from Olin Library.</p>
<p>(FYI, it turns out the Olin family [or corporation, or whoever they are] donates a lot of money to a lot of diff’t places. I was just amused to find yet one more.)</p>
<p>Hello Everyone,
You have all given a lot of advice in the past and I was hoping I could also be endowed with your wisdom.
I am a senior at MIT with a GPA of 2.9 (I suck). I am majoring in Physics because I thought it would be good training. I am the first to go to college in my family and I am from hispanic descent. I have one year to make or break my dreams and I needed advice. I want to double major in Biology because I am a lot, I mean a lot better at it than Physics and because I fear I won’t get into medical school and need a back up plan. I have worked 20+ hours a week since school started and I have been an active member of MIT-EMS and smaller program called MedLinks. I have a brand new daughter. I have taught every year and I am working in a Pharmaceutical company. First, I wanted to ask, what do you honestly think my chances of getting into medical school will be? What GPA and MCAT combination will serve me best (I know 4.0 and 45 would do but I probably can’t :(). Is double majoring worth it or should I just focus on what I want to take? Any advice would be like gold to me. I honestly want advice and am willing to take whatever harsh criticism there may be. Also, are those who are giving advice on admission boards or are they medical student or undergrads like me?</p>