PRE-MED is NOT a major!!!

Colleges & Universities Johns Hopkins University
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<p>I just wanted to throw this out there…</p>

<p>PRE-MED IS NOT A MAJOR, not at Hopkins anyways. It’s just a short way of saying “I plan on going to medical school.” It’s like people saying pre-law. There IS no pre-law major! Pre-med means that you’ll be taking the required courses in order to get into medical school, like a year of chem, year of physics, year of bio, blah blah blah…look it up if you don’t know the classes you’ll be taking. </p>

<p>Unless the application has changed, there is no “bubble in the following bubble if you’re pre-med”. I didn’t even meet my pre-med advisor until my junior year. So pleaseeeeeeeee stop asking people to “chance” you for pre-med, and I hope you didn’t put “I want to pursue the pre-med major at Johns Hopkins” because that may just get you rejected for not researching a school before applying.</p>

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<p>haha, yeah… pre-med is only a major at a small percentage of schools… and definitely not the high end schools… pre-med is more of a focus, an emphasis… but not a major… you can more-or-less major in anything you want as long as you take the required courses for the MCAT (although an engineering or a natural/life science major will naturally have more preparedness for the MCAT than a history or music major)</p>