PreHealth at Bing

Perfectedxchaos
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:43:35 +0000

You’d have to check particular department websites as far as how many credits their majors are. Some are more courses than others, and most science ones can be a lot of work in and of themselves, but the nice thing is that all my pre med requirements are automatically fulfilled in the psychobiology major - which is “double dipping” in a way, but it’s allowed.

But as long as you plan it well, and maybe got some gen eds done in high school, it should be doable. And a summer course or two wouldn’t be too terrible. I have some friends who enjoy it because they’ll be able to spend more time on a subject that otherwise would have brought down their GPAs or made it a lot harder during the year.

I knew I wanted to be be pre-med spring of my junior year of high school (shockingly not out of the womb like some pre meds seem to be). Of course there was a time at the VERY beginning of college I told my mother I’d be an english major, but she laughed and told me that I had wanted to be a doctor for so long… and I realized she was right.

And yes, lots of people decide it’s not their thing. And that’s perfectly okay if in the end you decide that you’d rather do something else! In fact, if you realize that it’s not, at least you didn’t continue all the way to a career that wasn’t appropriate for you!