sports medicine???

Bigredmed
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:10:08 +0000

Well, then the take home point is this: sports medicine, as actual medical subspecialty, is not going to be a part of your undergraduate experience. Your specific training in that field is past undergrad, past medical school, past residency. You may have criss-crossed the country by the point you are even in position to apply to a sports medicine fellowship.

Your focus now should be on finding the college that is the best fit for you, an environment that is going to set you up to the most successful student you can be. Your end goal would be simply getting into medical school. Do that first and then worry about the sports medicine when the time is right. If you are interested in majoring in something that is somewhat applicable to your interest, then Cards4life has given some good information. Consider those things as possible majors, but remember that you can major in anything and still get into medical school. You can go anywhere and still get into medical school too, so really don’t worry about the prestige or rankings of an individual school, just how well it fits you and your personality. The corrollary of the previous statements is also true in that no school and no major will give you a leg up on admissions to medical school either.

Lastly, if you decide to go the pre-med route, even if you move to New York or Florida or Kansas for undergrad, keep your AZ residency as the U of A medical school only accepts legal residents of AZ to their school (along with a few other individuals from a couple other western states without medical schools). That’s a big boost in your chances for admission.