Medical School Possibility

Andorvw
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:49:30 +0000

Problem with CS major (or engineering majors) is that CS courses are very very time-consuming for average students (ie, not the genius who can get straight A without spending much time/effort), and all pre-med courses (Bio, Chem, Orgo, Biochem) are also super time-consuming (they all have labs). When combining the two together, it is a disaster waiting to happen, not to mention most pre-med courses are weeder (ie, purposely made hard to reduce the size of applicants). IT jobs in general do not need a CS degree (that’s why lots of IT jobs are being out-sourced to countries with their IT workers don’t even have college degree, just couple months of training after high school). Best strategy is to pick a major that you like/enjoy and can also get higher GPA (3.7+) because you’ll need the extra time to beat those weeder pre-med courses. Just do some IT training on the side with any college degree will get you an IT job.

@SincereLove - Higher sGPA is always good, but it still has to be above certain level (I’d think anything below 3.5 or 3.6 is less likely to save an applicant, even it is from Vandy/JHU/Ivies…).