Vanderbilt Premed Weed Out

bernie12
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:34:05 +0000

Really? I still don’t see how that would work for a science major schedule wise. I’ve seen science majors who were pre-med (and definitely non) take summer classes and then still have to take 2-3 STEM classes at a time, though not necessarily lab. At the same time, maybe science major requirements were/are quite stringent at my school, even for the biology major. They first have very specific requirements and then they they do things like “we won’t take AP credit for general biology lab or calculus 2” and they recently threw in a mandatory statistics course for all of them. Chemistry…just ouch. Essentially makes doubling or tripling up in lab sciences about 2 times unavoidable and that is just counting the chemistry courses and not other pre-med requirements.

Being pre-med in a difficult major that requires several of its own lab sciences like physics or chem sucks even more than being pre-med…at all.