Pre-med survival -SAT link.. anyone?

bluebayou
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:53:33 +0000

Do NOT kill the dream. He’ll find out soon enough if he has what it takes to compete at the next level. Successful med school applicants have an average of a 3.5 college gpa overall and in the college sciences, so his chances are not great – he’d have to perform significantly better in college than he did in HS, which does happpen, but rarely.

In any event, let your nephew try inorganic chem and calc in college and see how he does. A slew of C’s and he’ll come to his own realization. OTOH, hopefully, he’ll surprise you.

btw: what makes premed at even more difficult is that many kids taking the college science courses already took them as an AP in high school, but they repeat the class for the “easy” A. Thus, the curves are brutal.

Good luck.