<p>Thank you very much MYOS1634. 
I appreciate the information and I’ll look up the colleges you suggested along with looking up other colleges I see and like. I have taken Biology and am taking general Chemistry and enjoy both very much. And I’m awaiting on my English Lit and Biology(m) SAT ll results as I have taken it already. Once again, thank you for your input.</p>
<p>And thank you as well, NavalTradition, I’ll do that. :)</p>
<p>BTW the colleges above are not random. They’re really schools with a track record of getting students with average/above average but not stellar stats into the health professions.
Since you’re looking at Sask, it means you’re not afraid of the cold, so, other possibilities for your stats:
College of Idaho
Carroll College (MT)
Elmhurst (IL)
Alma College (MI)
College of St Mary (Nebraska)
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Wells College (NY)
Nazareth (NY)
Hamline (MN)
St Kate’s (st Catherine’s? St Paul, MN)
Augustana (SD)</p>
<p>Colleges accessible to you in warmer climes although colder typically means less competition
Bellarmine University (KY)
Marietta (OH)
Hiram (OH)
York ¶
Roanoke College (VA)
Sweet Briar College (VA)</p>
<p>Those are all solid schools and they wouldn’t mind your not having Algebra II as long as you have a decent GPA and good SAT Subjects.</p>
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<p>Yeah, Juniata especially is a great school. </p>
<p>Sweet Briar has a super preppy reputation but I had a friend who taught there for a while and LOVED it, both the campus and the students.</p>
<p>I’ll add Nazareth College in Rochester (in the “colder climate” category) :)</p>
<p>Aww thank you both. I’ve been looking up some of these and I’ve really liked the looks of them! I appreciate the help.</p>
<p>If you get a college guide book (many of us liked Fiske,) when you look up one school, they’ll give you an idea of similar colleges you can cross-reference.</p>
<p>Please be sure to run Net Price Calculators, so you have an idea of financial aid. And, remember you must have safeties-</p>
<p>if you dont enjoy math, or if you have a deficiency, you would be doing yourself a disservice to want to go to medical school, or be pre med. youll be competing against people who have taken calc multivariable, not to mention physics too…
you seem to enjoy english/humanities and thrive in that, why not just choose that path?
maths given you enough trouble as it is, i dont see why you’d want to keep barking up that tree</p>
<p>then again if it is TRULY your passion who am i to tell you no? go for it! i looked back at your responses and it seems that you thrive in science, hopefully that will compensate for math.</p>
<p>Not all medical schools have a math requirement, but some do require applicants to complete calculus and/or statistics in college, so you need to know the algebra 2 material as a prerequisite.</p>
<p>In addition, even physics for biology majors that most pre-meds take will require good algebra knowledge (of course, physics for physics majors will require calculus and multivariable calculus).</p>
<p>Math is a subject that comes very easily to some people, and very, very hard to others. But even if math is extra challenging for you, there is no reason to believe that you flat-out cannot master the math skills that you would need as a pre-med. What you need to do is to identify the best strategy for mastering those skills. For example, you might be best off taking remedial math courses at a community college to get ready for the pre-calculus courses that will get you ready for true college-level calculus. If you need calculus as a pre-med, you just have to take it some time before you apply to med school. You do not absolutely need to have it your first year of college.</p>