<p>My D got admitted into UIUC - College of LAS for Chemical Engg. If she wants to get into premed program how does it work…? What is the path way to get into medical program.?
On the otherhand can she do a double major with business…?<br>
She is basically strong in Math and Bio. </p>
<p>Also she is deferred in Georgia Tech. How is the comparability between Georgia Tech Vs UIUC. </p>
<p>thanks
psr251</p>
<p>Like almost all universities, theres no “pre-med program”. It’s essentially an advising track of classes taken by students that satisfy the course requirements for medical schools. Anyone in the university can do it, all they have to do is look up “UIUC pre-health” on google and a page to the career center shows up that has fliers of all the classes that pre-meds should take. </p>
<p>As a ChemE, all the chem classes will be covered (actually it will be more than enough chem classes- Chemical Engineers tend to take advanced chemistry courses (instead of Chemistry 102/103/104/105 (General Chemistry + Lab sequence) they take 202/203/204/205 (Accelerated General Chemistry + Lab). All your D would have to tack on to the schedule is the added biology courses</p>
<p>And for doing a double major with business, I’m not sure if thats possible, but a Engineering/Business major would be pretty tolling on the GPA. That’d be harmful for a pre-medical student. A business minor wouldn’t be a bad idea. </p>
<p>Pre-Med here at UIUC is great, theres plenty of resources available and drop in hours with a pre-med advisor that you can speak to about your classes, steps on applying, etc. Classes are a challenge yes, but thats whats expected at a Public Ivy.</p>
<p>Kish is correct, but, in the past, the undergraduate degree where the majority of the courses required to obtain the degree that also satisfy many of the course pre-requisites required by Medical Schools is MCB.</p>
<p>[The</a> School of Molecular and Cellular Biology | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](<a href=“http://mcb.illinois.edu/about/]The”>http://mcb.illinois.edu/about/)</p>
<p>The University of Illinois College of Medicine is the largest medical school in the nation. It receives well over 8,000 applications per year for the approximately 180 openings in its M1 class. Competition is fierce and applicants with a very high undergraduate gpa coupled with great MCAT scores are turned away regularly. UGrad GPA management is critical. The ability to obtain two degrees at once would not even be looked at. If your ultimate goal is to attend Medical School, focus on GPA management, obtaining your undergraduate degree, fulfilling the course prerequisites for the medical schools to which you’d like to apply, and prepare for the MCAT (the best preparation being doing well in your Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Math classes). Notice that I didn’t mention business at all. Plan accordingly.</p>
<p>^^ Balthezar is completely correct about the MCB major, hence why I’m planning to switch to MCB from Health Sciences for next fall.</p>