so i’ve finally decided on Canisius College, NY for the fall semester and University at Buffalo, NY for spring semester and the rest of the 3 years. (However this will change by June 30, 2016 if i’m off the waitlist!)
i am going in as a bio major on the pre-med track.
At canisius, i’ve already done my course preference form online however i will talk to my counselor closer to august on whether i chose the correct ones that will be best for me and good for transferring into UB.
id really like to know your thoughts and opinions on how i should schedule my next 4 years classes that will be best for my time and possibly save time(like a year) as well (summer classes are good for me!), and that will make me look pretty good for medical school transcripts. i want to be involved within the schools as well and the student body ya know? make a change or impact somehow.
i know this one girl from UB (minahil is her name) and she was super involved and studied hard as well for law school( shes in georgetown univ which is amazing) and she was head of the undergrad and super involved. how can i get that far without ruining my gpa or study schedule? im looking into being an RA at UB also, but i heard you need to dorm for atleast 1 semester before becoming applying which im fine with and i’ll dorm if needed but like currently my plan is to stay home as i live pretty close. Any advice / tips?
I swear this website has been super helpful and i wanna thank everyone who’s helping me with my pre-college madness. i literally have no one older than me to help me sort out life and its stress.
Your questions is a little too specific to you and your school for anyone on this site to give you a very definitive answer. Here are some things to consider:
- Your advising office at UB can help you set up a class schedule to get the courses you need for your major and for pre-med. Whether you can do that in three years depends on a lot of factors, and your advisor can help you work through those.
- GPA and MCAT scores are the most important thing for med school admissions, and involvement in the medical field is highly desirable (hospital internship, etc.). You are smart to focus on balancing academics and other activities in a way that will allow you to maintain a good GPA. What that balance is depends on you and your particular academic abilities and your ability to multi-task.
- Living at home is wise if med school is in your future because med school is ridiculously expensive and you want to save all the money you can. Being an RA is another route, but again, you would need to look at the RA program at UB and see what the requirements are and what the time demands are.
Sorry I can’t give more specific answers, but what you are trying to accomplish doesn’t have a “one size fits all” answer. Use the resources at UB would be my best advice: the advising office, the pre-med advisor, the residential life office, etc. Your tuition pays for those people to help you!
@blprof thank you for your help.
Yeah I’m hoping to get into UB for fall but I’m in the wait list and they said I’ll know by June 30 which is today but I haven’t gotten an email yet so I’m not sure what that means to be honest. I’m then going to canisius which I got my schedule for which has 14 credits only which seems weird to be honest because a lot of my friends who are going to UB have 15-18 credits their freshmen year.