<p>Is it recommended to not take English until later in my college years? I passed out Berkeley’s reading and composition requirements for both halves in the college of letters and science, and I was thinking maybe put off the 1 year requisite for med schools since some med schools dont require such?
I figured I’d have a better idea of which med schools I would want to apply too as more time passes by.</p>
<p>Why? English classes are easy. English classes teach you valuable reading comprehension skills (useful for the MCAT). Many med schools would like to see humanities courses even if they don’t “require” it.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you got “easy”, but I thought it would help to focus on my weeder courses and put aside English for later on in my 4 years. I don’t know, I’m under the assumption that people finish their 1 year of English in their freshmen year.</p>
<p>I got ‘easy’ from the fact I took English (and humanities courses in general) in college. 30 credits worth.</p>
<p>what if you’re a science/engineering major? would it help to double-major in a humanities area (under the assumption you are interested in it, of course)? Or would a minor in that area be enough?</p>
<p>thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>When applying to medical school, can I use the shadowing experiences that I had my senior year in high school or do medical schools only care about the doctors that I shadow in college?</p>
<p>1.) Your official list may only contain post-high school activities.
2.) Essays and interview discussions can include activities from whenever you like – i.e. you are not restricted to “official list” items.
3.) It’s probably a good idea to do some shadowing during college as well.</p>
<p>As someone with significant shadowing experience in HS (that ended up being way better than anything I did in college) I can say that you have to utilize the openness of the personal statement/essays and the interviews to make sure that you stress how important the experience was to you.</p>
<p>which school is generally better for premed?
pomona
oberlin
wesleyan,
occidental
usc
ucsd
ucla
ucberkley</p>
<p>how do I tell, i mean, how would i judge which school would be the best for me?</p>
<p>Campus visit is most important information.</p>
<p>there is no easy way, but the best measure is whether you want a lot of competition, massive GE’s, and a lot of premeds. Also, you may want to see how independent in academics you are.<br>
my preferences would be a school with:
-no too much competition
-a lot of resources
-a lot of people in my major
i totally recommend scripps or mckenna/ i dont know about pomona since i havent taken a class there.</p>
<p>but for social life, i totally loved my ucla visit, so it would be hard; definately do more visits</p>
<p>i visited mckenna, but it seemed that they werent very science orientated. they seemed to be more goverment/economics orientated, but i chose pomona instead.
generally, do these Liberal arts colleges have a lot of opportunities? i really hope to volunteer/intern/work at something medical related, like a hospital or a clinic during my undergraduate years, so a school that has all this would be a major plus…</p>
<p>yeeah, um if i found a school that fit all those preferences, i’d probably transfer there.</p>
<p>um im not sure if you checked out the keck science center- which is shared among mckenna, scripps, and pitzer.</p>
<p>no, when i visited it wasnt open—
but doesnt pomona have its own science building?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info earlier. I have another question. I want to go to Loyola University in the fall and I hear they have an acceptance rate of 80%. It makes me nervous because I have heard that schools with such a high acceptance rates do not let some people access their pre-med advisory committee or will not write them a letter of recommendation to med school. Could this be the case with Loyola?</p>
<p>Yes, it could. Only way to know is to ask.</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn’t believe anything about med school acceptance rates unless I see it in writing.</p>
<p>No, not even then. Easily manipulated statistic.</p>
<p>definitely there is a lot of shady stuff that occurs in the premed offices; probably don’t give recs to those who don’t have the “fit” scores to apply to med school.</p>
<p>yeah … pomona has its own science building. so i assume classes would be smaller than over at keck, but i mean come on i still think a class of 30 vs class of 45 cant make that much of a differnece for an intro course</p>