NUrsing to pre med???

Icarus
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:43:40 +0000

And please don’t just restate me and say I don’t know what I’m talking about without giving me an explanation of why I’m wrong. Because again, there is no statement written by medical schools that state nursing majors aren’t given an equal chance as biology majors.



You’re wrong because you don’t know what you’re talking about. (i.e. have no experience/knowledge of medical school admissions) Med schools aren’t going to come right out and say “We like this major, but not that one” - med school admissions are quite subjective in many ways (and very much not so in others), which is why they are such a crapshoot.

Case in point…



Also, last time I checked, you had to APPLY for business school after sophomore year and students are turned down…at least at my university.



The bolded bit should have tempered the first bit, but instead you took the one data point that you knew and generalized to all other schools. If you want to be completely technically correct, “business school” usually refers to the graduate form (i.e. MBA, etc.) not the undergrad major, which typically does not require any special application (unless a particular school has such a requirement, which is not common).



4 isn’t many (bio, gen chem, orgo, physics).



Where do you get “4” from? Thats one year each of those subjects (2-3 classes each depending on if you’re in a semester or quarter system), plus a separate lab course (if your school doesn’t build the lab into the main course). Not to mention the fact that you’re leaving out a year of mathematics and a year of english - granted, not required at all med schools, but you’re limiting your application pool if you don’t have them. That’s way more than 4 courses.



You can take 3 of the 4 in high school. So I do have a point at where I’m coming from.



No you can’t. And no you don’t.



I’m 17. I turn 18 in May of next year. I’m a freshman entering college in the fall though. The youngest paramedic ever in the state of Texas was 18 years and 3 months (who’s actually my instructor). I’m getting my paramedic in less than a month after my 18th birthday.



What are you trying to prove here? I was in EMS for several years before med school, and I am very strongly against states that let people become EMTs before the age of 18, much less paramedics at that age. No police department in the country will take you if you’re younger than 21, but somehow some states think it’s just fine to stick a 16 year old in an ambulance and tell him/her to have fun. :rolleyes: