Pre-Med Requirements and AP credits

mcat2
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:19:02 +0000

I am NOT going to be a science major. I can’t stand the hard sciences.



What Kdog said is correct. Although you do not have to major in science, you have to compete well against most science majors in the lower-division science classes in order to prove to med schools you are very competent in science prereq classes. Having good scores in AP tests (AP 5) does not prove anything in the eyes of med school adcoms, as most of adcoms think the pool of test takers are not good enough. Many high schoolers are not aware of this.

A part of premed game is to pool together those who are among the best in taking science tests, and then let them compete with each other head-to-head. Only those among the best of the best are not weeded out in the process.

There is a chance that choosing Middlebury rather than Cal (if you are from California) may benefit you, as long as you do not insist that you want to attend a med school in California after 4 years. But this is just my guess.