Pre-med survival -SAT link.. anyone?

cptofthehouse
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:44:26 +0000

The premed courses serve as an excellent base for many careers other than medicine and are required in nearly all medical based careers even if he does not end up as a doctor. It’s not as though the classes taken are going to be “wasted”. My friend’s daughters who had stats lower than your nephew started out as nursing majors, and are now medical clerks earning excellent salaries processing medical and insurance paperwork. The bio and chem courses they took were valuable in giving them a good jump start in this field. Premed is an area where many kids jump ship. The med school acceptance rates are nearly worthless because of the fact that it does not take into account those kids who started out premed and ended up dropping it along the way. By the time a kid is actually at the point of applying to med school,he has already gone through the gauntlet of the preparatory courses, and if does not have the grades needed to get into a med school, it is unlikely he will apply. Some college actually gatekeep by only sanctioning those apps that look likely to get accepted.