Hello everyone, please share your thoughts about Ualbany’s premed track with Biology major. I am accepted to Honors program.
- How are research and clinical‑hour opportunities and which year student can start doing research?
- Strength of the pre‑med/pre‑health advising
- How challenging it is to maintain a strong GPA
- what are the benefits of Honors College?
Thank you
Most of this can be found online or by taking to student ambassadors. Most schools offer more research than students to fill it. In my opinion, advising is not a reason to choose or not choose a school. Anyone can follow a flow chart. It’s nice to have.
If you can afford Albany plus $400k for med school, it’s a splendid choice. If you can’t, do you have a less expensive alternative ?
Honors seems to include academics, housing and more. Ask to speak to an Honors student. At many schools, kids don’t take advantage of Honors - just the housing and early class registration if offered. At the same time, kids that take advantage get a lot out of it.
Good luck.
Hi thank you for your response. Ualbany is the cheapest option for me. It’s $23,000k for 1st year and rest of the year around $7,000k as I am planning to commute. Other options are UB honor where COA is $32,000k, union college where COA is $37,000k.
I wanted to check how strong pre med advising because I wanted to have proper guidance on volunteering, research, shadow to improve my chances of getting into med school.
Tagging @WayOutWestMom because she can clarify or correct what I’m going to say.
You can take the required courses for medical school applicants at Albany. The rest of the things you have listed…will really be your responsibility to make happen.
You need to volunteer with less fortunate folks…and not just once or twice. Do this with commitment. There are places like soup kitchens and the like in every town.
You need to shadow and the college isn’t going to arrange this for you. Start by contacting your primary care doctor and seeing if you can shadow there. You really should shadow in more than one discipline.
Get some patient facing work or volunteer experience. Get EMT certification, or CNA, or medical assistant.
Research is nice, and you should be able to get this by reaching out to professors at the college. The advising office isn’t going to do this for you.
Plan to apply to about 20 medical schools, and a combination of MD and DO schools. Prep for the MCAT (that’s on you too). Study hard and get a great GPA.
@DramaMama2021 can you please link the FAQ threads about premeds so this student can read them ALL.
You or someone for you posted the other day.
Why would you move home ? On campus is still cheaper than UB.
Advising is nice - and it will likely be the same at most big publics and there’s enough on line to help as well. It’s not worth higher expense - put it that way.
I think you will be just fine at Albany. It has all of the classes you need. Everything else is on you, and I have no doubt that there will be opportunities to take advantage of.
Same poster…multiple threads.
If this student needs to conserve money for medical school, living at home is one way to do this. And this seems to be the case for this student.
They can get everything they need to apply to medical school attending Albany.
Here you go!