non cuthroat pre-meds.

mom2collegekids
Fri, 25 May 2018 13:43:25 +0000

My daughter is a Junior who wants to go pre-med. I read a lot of posts here about schools where the pre-meds are really cutthroat. I have two questions about this:

1. What does that actually mean? Are the students mean to each other, sabotaging each other, etc. Or just that everyone is out to get the highest grades possible?

There have been some rumors, that some California schools have Premed’s that sabotage each other because it is such an unlucky state…Way too many Premed’s for the number of med school seats. My sister-in-law told me that her daughter experienced some sabotaging in premed prereq classes .

Frankly, it may be a safe plan for your daughter not to tell fellow freshman classmates that she’s premed. She can quietly go about her business and stay under the radar. Quietly doing some shadowing in your hometown during breaks. If there are premed clubs to join, perhaps wait until sophomore year. Some schools don’t even allow freshman to join . My son told very very very few people that he was premed. Lol… he didn’t like the students who ran around announcing that they were premed. Not surprising many of them were weeded out the first year… not surprising many of them we’re weeded out the first year.

2. Are there any schools out there where the pre-meds are not cutthroat? If so, I’d really love to know which ones!

Every school weeds their Premeds because every school has too many freshmen Premeds. Many schools have Premeds that just aren’t strong enough science students And those ones usually get weeded out after the first exam fall semester

The Premed pre-rec classes are just regular biology and chemistry etc. classes. There will be a bio majors, chemistry majors, engineering majors, etc, in those classes and they will get weeded too.