UHP Notifications and Pre-Medicine at GW

arain13
Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:45:49 +0000

I’m not sure how easy it is to do a double major PLUS doing the premed requirements. He might be able to do it since i’m assuming the Biochem requirements might be similar to the premed requirements, but doing another major in a completely different field like humanities, along with completing the general curriculum requirements might be difficult. I would recommend looking at the CCAS website for undergraduate majors and requirements to see if it’s possible (I would think that would be hard at any school) [Undergraduate Study in the Columbian College](Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University).

Also, AP credit will not count towards premed requirements. If he wants to use his AP credit, let’s say for chem, he would be expected to take 2 upper level chem courses instead plus the organic chem that is required (see my above post)–> same with bio. In terms of Calculus, the same thing would apply, except that different med schools have different math requirements, some requiring none, and some requiring 2 semesters (Calc 1 and 2). Depending on what medical school he wants to apply in the future, he will/will not need to take the calc. However, the AP credit (assuming he gets at least a 4), will cover the general curriculum requirements (GCR) for math and science.

As for the GCR’s, yes, you can choose when you want to take them for the most part. It looks like he will have satisfied his science and math requirements coming into the university, but there are other requirements as well. A lot of these he’ll cover with just his normal schedule, but there are some that he is going to have to fit in somewhere else. The only one that really matters when you take it is that during his freshman year, he’ll have to take UW (University Writing) course. The rest is pretty flexible and depending on whether or not he’s planning on studying abroad, a lot of the advisors will recommend that GCR’s are taken abroad since they are pretty broad courses and you’ll have no problem trying to find classes that will be accepted by the university. Also note that science classes cannot be taken abroad so that might be an issue when figuring out if he can do the double major and premed.

I’m not familiar with the University Honor’s Program at all, I didn’t even know there was such a thing until after I applied. I would assume that he will hear about his acceptance to the program when he gets his acceptance letter. Last year, acceptance was posted online on March 31 @ 5pm, and we got an acceptance packet in the mail with the financial packages and acceptance into special programs a few days later.

Let me know if you have anymore questions =)