<p>since you now need the following courses:
Biology: 2 semesters (3 recommended)
Chemistry: 2 semesters
Organic Chemistry: 1 semester (2 recommended)
Physics: 2 semesters
Biochemistry: 1 semester
Psychology: 1 semester
Sociology: 1 semester
Statistics (or some other course that focuses on experimental design and how to interpret the significance of data): 1 semester recommended
Humanities: 1-3 semesters recommended</p>
<p>Why would engineering be off the table? I don’t really get where you get that idea from. Many pre-med students do not major in the life sciences and are successful med school applicants.</p>
<p>Also note that you do not “need” any courses for the MCAT, you need them to apply to medical school. You just need to learn the material required for the MCAT one way or another. All of the statistics methods on the MCAT for example would be easily covered in an AP stats book or learnable from a statistics textbook.</p>
<p>If you are interested in things like art / music, combining one of these with Bio related major will cover your humanities requirement. Comparing new requirements with what D. had (she is a 4th year Med. Student), she had much more than reguirement. She had Zoology major / Neuroscience minor (dropped 2 classes short of completion)/ Music minor.<br>
I would not go with the engineering if Med. School is in plans, the most challenging UG major out of absolutely every single one (at any UG school). Coming from former EE. </p>
<p>I have heard great success stories of pre-meds with Engineering majors. But one has to be an exceptionally top caliber student with great time managment skills to accomplish that. Yes, I am claiming that E major do not fit vast majority of American HS graduates that have to fill the gap beween HS academics and college requirements mostly on their own. I personally know a top caliber student from private HS who had to hire tutors to successfully continue in her E major. And I am not talking at this point about pre-med. Now, if you add a pre-med requirement of having very high GPA, complete several long-lasting EC’s and still develop as a social person, this task is NOT for everybody, but there are people who are totally capable of doing that. In addition, some UG programs would not let you to graduate earlier than 5 years in engineering programs. Again, specifically, my D’s bs/md program that allow absolutely any major, required for engineering majors in this program to stay in UG for 5 years. I do not know why anybody in bs/.md would pursue engineering, since they have guaranteed spot in Med. School, but apparently there are such cases.</p>
<p>Your missing the point. All medical schools have different requirements, and most premeds do not apply to all 130 US med schools. So, each one will have different requirements.</p>
<p>Also remember absolutely no courses are required for the MCAT, one just needs the knowledge of these subjects. You don’t need a college stats course to understand a t or a z test.</p>
<p>@frugaldoctor, the data you reference is somewhat skewed as there are so few Engineering and Physics majors taking the MCAT. There are 2 orders of magnitude difference between the number of EEs and number of Bio majors taking the exam. I would think that speaks to the fact that many many more Bio majors, some of whom may not be adequately prepared for the exam, attempt the exam. I don’t think you can answer ramos’ question solely based on this data.</p>
<p>As far as Ramos’ question, it might be instructive to ask what majors would be able to fit the requirements for medical school and the suggested courses for new MCAT in a four year UG experience.</p>
<p>Speaking as an EE myself, I would venture to say that taking both the requirements for engineering, and the requirements for MCAT would be difficult to fit into 4 years, unless there were course overlap, as in BME. It would be tough to fit as an EE. I’m not as familiar with the ChemE curriculum. </p>
<p>Best wishes to your daughter in ChemE with the Pre-med studies. That is terrific! You must be so proud of her!</p>
<p>@Jweinst1, Yes, medical schools have different requirements, but Ramos’ question has to do with the new list of recommended courses to be BEST prepared for the new MCAT exam, not just for the application to the school. Ramos is correct…that is the list of courses that are suggested/recommended.</p>
<p>My son and one of his housemates were ChemE majors, but since they just finished their first year of med school, they didnt have to fill any new req’ts. </p>
<p>The ChemE reqts pretty much include all the old premed req’ts (year of bio, chem, orgo, physics, and (lots of) math). My son also took BioChem, Cell Bio, Genetics. Are those soft sciences req’d or recommended. </p>
<p>If some/all of the new classes are req’d as opposed to suggested, then an undergrad that allows AP credits, would make room in a schedule for BioChem and other classes. My son used his AP credits for: Chem, Bio, English, Calc, English, Gov, and History. This made room for higher level courses. If his school had had AP psych, he would have taken that as well. </p>
<p>OP did not ask about BS/MD and did not seek advice in that area. So you are diverting this thread away from what OP is trying to get answers on. Someone doing a standard BS followed by MD can take 6 years or 10 years before starting their MD.</p>
<p>^ i’ve never seen anyone on this website try to straighten out a post. awesome</p>
<p>side note, i dont mean that med schools “require” those courses but it would be awesome to fit in all the courses that can seriously help you prepare for the exam.</p>
<p>stats is required by a med school I KNOW i will be applying to because of other factors. same with biochem</p>