<p>I was wondering if it would be possible to excel in pre-med courses, major courses, and also play college sports at the same time.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Stony Brook Student Athletes-Medical Students](<a href=“Stony Brook Student Athletes-Medical Students - YouTube”>Stony Brook Student Athletes-Medical Students - YouTube)</p>
<p>It’s a video about student athletes from Stonybrook. You should probably watch it. It is very possible.</p>
<p>Was not possible for my D. Her sport is very time consuming. She tried to do club, Varsity was out of question. Could not keep up even with club. Uses her sport recreationally for workouts (when she has time).</p>
<p>Well, I tried, and mostly succeeded, but I’m not a great example because I decided to go to grad school instead of med school, and wouldn’t have been a stellar med school applicant.</p>
<p>Still, based on the 3ish years I did try to juggle it all, I think it’s possible, but I also think it’s a little crazy. During season, my time was 100% filled by class, studying, playing my sport, doing lab research, and trying to maintain some semblance of a social life. I had 7am-9pm days, spent any free weekend days in the library, and had times where a weekend-long tournament was right before a major midterm (usually resulting in me having to ditch out on lab work, just so I could get a few extra hours of study time). I was able to fit substantial research in, but otherwise, pre-med ECs had to wait for summers. Also, I had always planned on taking a year off after undergrad to take the MCAT, do some more volunteering, and get together an application. No way would I have had time to apply while in school.</p>
<p>So, I say give it a shot, see how demanding your sport will be and how older athletes and older pre-meds manage their time. The people I know who pulled it off say it was totally worth it and they have no regrets. If it becomes too much, then you’ll need to make some decisions about what your priorities are, but if you love what you do enough, you might be able to make it work.</p>
<p>My DD played an NCAA emerging sport, not yet varsity. At her division I school, it was a serious club sport, they went to national championships, she was an All American, etc.</p>
<p>She has friends on varsity teams, they get scheduling priority, work study jobs doing things with/for the team, tutors even, she did not get that. But she did have the ability to skip practice the week of a mid-term.</p>
<p>She was able to play her first 3 years, year round practices, and still got the GPA and all that. She did decide not to play as a senior as she had to do internships, shadowing, volunteering, etc and did not feel she would have the time to do it all and do it well.</p>
<p>^could I ask what the school was? (because I thought that as an athlete you are compelled to play all 4 years if you are recruited/admitted for a sport)</p>
<p>^ How could they compel you? You would have to forgo any sport scholarship, but can’t imagine they make you promise to play for four years or get thrown out.</p>
<p>Viggy, you may be thinking about athletic scholarship athletes losing their scholarship. Not having their admission rescinded. Most college athletes get no athletic money.</p>
<p>Curm, weren’t you a DI cycle rider? :)</p>
<p>It’s definitely possible. </p>
<p>I’m trying to remember my class of 150 from early 80’s, but I can think of at least 4 or 5 Varsity scholarship athletes (DII Football Cornerback was my Anatomy partner, 2 or 3 D1 Swimmers, and at least 1 D2 Baseball) plus at least 3 or 4 other pretty serious non scholarship athletes at the DII or III level. </p>
<p>The year behind me had a D1 Football All-American and a guy who played 3 years of Minor League Baseball before he decided he rather go to Med School.</p>