<p>I’ve known students who’ve done this, but
- Not many. Think single digits.
- They were likely to be students deep into their nursing programs when they made the decision (and felt like they had to finish what they started).
- They were willing to put in the extra time to finish the pre-med prereqs. As charlieschm mentioned, there’s not a lot of room in the nursing curriculum to fit in pre-med requirements. Once nursing starts, a student is in clinical for large chunks of time several days a week. These will invariably conflict with the labs required of the science courses. Factor in the new MCAT requirements (2015 test takers will need some cellular bio, possibly some bio-chem, more social sciences) and it becomes fairly obvious that getting done in 4, even with summer school, is going to be a challenge. At some schools, it simply won’t be possible.</p>
<p>If you want to be a doctor, go for med school. Major in whatever you want. Pre-med isn’t a major but a series of courses one takes in preparation for the MCAT. You want a major with big bucks as a back-up? Engineering of some sort?</p>