<p>Hey Everybody,
I am starting to look more and more into colleges and med school.
But some thing still perplex me after all the info out there on the various websites.</p>
<p>From what I understand it doesn't really mater what college you go to since you only need to major in biology or some other science course, right?</p>
<p>I am have been looking into John Hopkins University, does that school have an "accelerated" program, like where you can get a bs/md in 6 years?</p>
<p>I got a 1290 on my PSAT, thats pretty bad in guessing, are my chances realy low for getting into a good college?</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>1.) True.
2.) No.
3.) Is that for two sections, or all three?</p>
<p>That 1290 of mine is for all three sections.</p>
<p>Also
So if it is true that a college doesn't matter if you want to be a doctor, how come John Hopkins is so renowned and has a lot of pretiege?
???</p>
<p>PSAT doesn't really matter, study for your SAT and ACT and you'll do fine. As long as you meet your pre med requirements in ugrad you should be fine and you don't have to have a science major.</p>
<p>Do in college will I be learning anything that will have to do with being a doctor?</p>
<p>SO is john Hopkins a pre med or college school?</p>
<p>1.) It's true that PSAT doesn't matter, but it is a warning light about other standardized tests, which will matter in the end.</p>
<p>2.) The quality of your undergrad won't exclude you from medical school. Elite programs may or may not make things a little easier; this is unproven and (so far as we know) unprovable either way.</p>
<p>3.) In undergrad, you will be expected to start doing extracurriculars which will start teaching you about being a doctor. The exact course requirements will have DIRECTLY very little to do with your eventual medical career (doctors don't sit around trying to figure out how electrons move) but serve as a foundation for the science you'll need to learn.</p>
<p>4.) Johns Hopkins University is a university. They have an undergraduate program, a medical school, and a variety of other graduate schools. Being a "premed" simply means going to college and taking a specific set of 12 courses while you're there. 12 courses amounts to about one and a half of your four years in college, but of course you will spread them out.</p>