Help Me? MD and Pre-med

happymomof1
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:46:30 +0000

What state are you in? Is there a community college that you can commute to for the first two years so that you can bring your GPA up? Where I live, plenty of students re-invent themselves successfully at the CC before transferring to a 4-year institution.

Here is the deal: pre-med is hard. You will need to pull nearly perfect grades in the core classes. Even if you have the study skills to do that, it will be very, very tough going. The up-side is that almost every community college and 4-year institution in the nation offers the pre-med core coursework so you needn’t look for a fancy name institution. Just-around-the-corner-liberal-arts-college can get you into med school almost as readily as famous-name-here.

You probably don’t want to start out as a business major if you are serious about pre-med. It can be tricky to fit both sets of requirements in. Stop being afraid of telling people that you are interested in medicine. Sit down with your science teacher(s) and your guidance counselor, and get some help sorting out a few more places for your application list.