Declaring Pre-Med and courseload

Colleges & Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>How do you declare pre-med at UT and are the pre-med classes extremely rigorous? In high school I was in honors bio, honors chem, and honors physics and I did really well in physics and bio, but pretty bad in chemistry so i'm nervous about how I would perform in these classes. Also since I plan on getting my major requirements out of the way at UT, can I just complete my pre-med classes at community college in the summer? </p>

<p>Also... for the calc sequence, what happens if i've completed the business calc sequence (i'm a transfer student, so I have to complete this at ACC) and the non-majors bio classes for my major? Would I then have to basically redo it all to satisfy pre-med requirements? That would be a serious pain... since it would be like taking 4 of the same classes again. </p>

<p>Thanks everyone</p>

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<p>What will your major be? Are you trying to get a special pre-med advisor or why do you need to “declare” pre-med?</p>

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<p>My major will be either business (if I get in internally) or biology. What I meant by declaring pre-med was letting an advisor know, if they need to know. I’m not sure if I have to formally let an advisor know.</p>

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<p>I think it would be helpful for you to have an advisor know you are pre-med. Also, I think it would be helpful for you to become familiar with the major issues that the students are talking about on the pre-med forums here on cc. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Agree with MidwestMom that 1) you would benefit from having a pre-med advisor and 2) you can learn a lot from the pre-med forum on CC. There are many threads that talk about pre-med coursework, timing, advising, MCAT prep, etc (there’s so much to learn, really). One piece of advice from that forum is that medical schools tend to frown upon applicants taking pre-med requirements at a community college.</p>

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<p>You should probably use a different word other than ‘declare’ since thats really exclusively used for majors/minors at UT and not pre-professional programs.</p>

<p>Here is where you go to get a premed advisor: </p>

<p>[Health</a> Professions Advising](<a href=“http://cns.utexas.edu/careers/health-professions]Health”>http://cns.utexas.edu/careers/health-professions)</p>

<p>Here is the stuff about pre-med: </p>

<p>[url=<a href=“http://cns.utexas.edu/careers/health-professions/programs/pre-medical]Pre-Medical[/url”>http://cns.utexas.edu/careers/health-professions/programs/pre-medical]Pre-Medical[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>I’m a freshman doing pre-med right now and it’s not so bad. I’ve been able to go out just about every weekend and I had a good first round of tests. The only thing is that you don’t want to get behind in your readings or that can really stress you out. If you have multiple tests in the same week it’s also stressful but it’s definitely doable.</p>