Getting over giving up my dream school

MYOS1634
Sat, 01 May 2021 22:08:45 +0000

So, VCU is truly the best school FOR YOU!
It may not be a generic “dream school” but it’s the school where you’ll have everything you need to get where you want to go - for free - and, I bet, with lots of perks.
You’ll have priority registration - so you can pick all the classes you want, never worry about being shut out of a class you need but also certain that if a class piques your interest you can take it. If you work better early, you can stack your schedule with early morning classes, and if you work better later, you can take classes at 10 or 11am and never start at 8 am again! You can avoid “bad” teachers (there are professors who have trouble teaching undergrads) and that’s a thing MANY premeds will be jealous of.
Honors gives you Honors-only volunteer and leadership opportunities, and being in the city you’ll have tons of options to show what med schools want to see in a candidate.
I just checked this Fall’s Honors courses that have been confirmed, and right off the bat 4 work well for premeds: Honors Bio, Honors Chem, Honors Women’s&Gender Studies, and SCTS200 An interdisciplinary introduction to the ethical, social and political dimensions of science, technology and medicine examined through case studies and debates.
And the “Humans of RVA” new course (student-tested below) sounds very interesting!