<p>Suppose I get into CGS and want to be a Pre-med student and major in Neuroscience. What would my schedule be? Will I graduate in 4 years?</p>
<p>As a recent grad who had a fantastic experience in CGS, I would say that you need to think about it very carefully. I loved CGS, but you need to understand that it’s a liberal arts-focused curriculum. The course load is essentially 2 years of history , a year of philosophy/ethics, a year of general humanities, a year of writing/rhetoric, and a year of science. FYI, most people who are in a science related major end up taking classes like bio or chem, which exempts them from CGS science courses. So if you want to do CGS, you need to be comfortable with history and liberal arts subjects. I don’t want to scare you off, it’s not as if you need to already know everything, you just have to be comfortable with that kind of thinking. If you’re someone who is STEM-oriented, you need to understand what you’re getting into. The other thing is that a lot of STEM majors involve a lot of classes in a very specific order. </p>
<p>If you look at the pathways for various majors on the BU CGS website, you’ll see that there are a couple of science-related majors (mostly SAR and ENG, if I remember correctly) that require a summer class or overloading in order to stay “on track.” It’s much easier for other majors. Neuroscience alone might be slightly easier to do in 4 years, because CAS majors need to take a lot of general education requirements anyway. But adding on a pre-med major makes it difficult.</p>
<p>And not to be a pessimist but far more people are pre-med in freshman year than are pre-med in sophomore year. Think carefully about whether that’s really something you want to pursue. </p>
<p>If you do want to do CGS (and I should reiterate that I loved it and found it hugely helpful), I would recommend taking as many classes outside of CGS as possible. That sounds counterintitutive, but if you take one elective (i.e., one class in your major) per semester, you can start to feel a little impatient. But if you can balance CGS classes and major-related classes, you can see the benefit of both. I would say that by sophomore year, about 2/3 of my classmates had been exempted from a class for various reasons. In my case, I was exempted from freshman humanities because of AP English Literature and exempted from science classes because I did the CGS London summer program. I highly recommend doing one of the two 6-week programs that CGS offers in London during the summer between freshman and sophomore year. Basically they have a program that runs from mid-May to late June where you take two semesters’ worth of humanities classes, and a second program that runs from late June to mid-August where you take two semesters’ worth of science classes. It’s a great opportunity and frees up space in your schedule.</p>
there are only 8 REQUIRED courses for medical school ( Chem 1-2, Organic Chem 1-2, Physics 1-2 and Biology 1-2)
as well as associated labs and End 101-102.
https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/requirements/
You can get your degree in basketweaving and get into medical school. ( actually that might be a good idea, Medical schools like students who can realte to patients not just be a nerd) My roommate was a Entomology Major and he got in no worries, do well on the MCAT score A’s on all these classes and you are golden.
Also the level does not matter, if the University offers 2 levels of the class ( one cor science majors and one not, you can take the lower one, there is no level requirements either, as long as you can study the material for the MCAT you will be good.
My suggestion wodl be to take an easy major, use electives to take the easier level of ourse in each of these requirments, ace them and you will be good