Need help for UCSD Pre-Med student!!

cleoindenile
Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:14:19 +0000

Hi, I am attending UCSD in the fall, for my freshmen year. As a premed I have looked over the schools I want to go to and checked out their pre-req classes that they require. I heard from everyone that the councelors don’t help much when you’re asking for advice so I have these questions to ask before I start making my four year plan:


How do I satisfy the one year of English for Medical schools? I am going to take MCWP40 and 50 (critical writing)because it’s a general ed. Would that suffice? I would think not, but what class should I take to complete the one year of English they require.
Medical schools recommend that I take humanities. What courses at UCSD do I take for that? I’m not really sure where I can find them. The humanities department doesn’t really have a lot of options and I’m not sure what would work.
Should I take my spanish classes for P/NP even though all medical schools are recommending that I take that course? I have a problem with getting into the Spanish class I want to. I don’t speak Spanish at all and yet UCSD placed me in Spanish 1C… and I’m not able to take Spanish 1A and 1B for credit. Any advice how to get that done? or what I should do? I don’t want this to ruin my GPA and look bad for the medical schools.


Thank you for the help.