Wesleyan for Pre-Med?

circuitrider
Sat, 30 Mar 2019 14:51:14 +0000

@circuitrider hey thanks for all the info? From your profile image, do you/did you attend Wesleyan?
I love the small size of Wesleyan, but it does make me worried that they are such a liberal artsy school. But maybe their sciences are good too, they’re just outshined by the liberal arts, which are superb? I’m having a hard time convincing my parents of getting a Bachelor of Arts degree even though I plan to apply to med school, or at least pursue the sciences.

Yes, indeed, I am a proud Wesleyan grad. And, I am familiar with the annoying two-step in reasoning that, guys especially, have to go through in explaining that going to a LAC does not mean you want to be a portrait painter or a sculptor (although, there’d be nothing wrong with that.) In some ways, the sciences do labor in the shadow of the flashier alumni base of the “Wesleyan Mafia” in film, theater and dance. But, Wesleyan does have its stars in the medical arena, including the departing head of the FDA (Wesleyan’s only Trump appointee), the founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and many, many unsung doctors practicing all over the country.