Pre Med Advice for 1st Years (or any year!)

ChemUndergrad
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:39:37 +0000

Although not pre-med myself, my major is heavily dominated by pre-meds and I also have a lot of pre-med friends. Therefore, I am (painfully) familiar with all of the premed requirements. I thought that the order of the requirements that you listed is a little interesting. Most of the students I have talked to have taken the reqs in this order:

First year = gen chem + gen chem lab
Second year = organic lec + organic lab, bio lec + bio lab
Third year = physics lec + physics lab

At UVA, intro bio (especially intro bio lab) is EXTREMELY hard to get into as a first-year unless you have Echols or other early registration benefits. General chemistry/gen chem lab, on the other hand, is heavily dominated by first-years.

Anyways, just thought I would share my two cents.