I love acting but am passionate about being a doctor also. How does the typical day of Theatre major play out is there enough time to both. How much time do Theatre majors spend doing homework and rehearsal. Are schedules flexible? I want to pursue Theatre and pre med fully nothing held back. I probably want to specialize in acting.
If you choose a BA program and are careful about meeting major requirements as well as Pre-med requirements, you should be able to manage though I don’t know how much time you’ll have for performance. A BFA program is probably out of the question though.
My gut feeling is that that would be EXCEEDINGLY difficult to manage, even in a BA program, but I don’t know for sure, and I admire your ambition! I hope you find a way to balance your passions!
I knew people who were pre-med and majoring in all kinds of things – English, environmental studies, government, history. You just had to make sure you took all the degree requirements plus organic chemistry and all the stuff med school required. I don’t see how theater would be any different at a liberal arts school. You’d have to work really hard and be extremely organized but it sounds like the OP is okay with that.
Yeah the only thing im worried about is if there’s enough time for both Theatre seems pretty time consuming and difficult are there a lot of essays in Theatre. Are y’all always working to get a production. Im kind of thinking I rather work harder in something I like. Rather than being a science major because it would feel like less work.
That’s the right attitude for medical school - how to get there with less work!
One of my doctors went to Juilliard for violin. Here is a story of someone who did music and composing plus pre-med.
http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/scott-steidl-double-vision
This might be of interest:
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and there are previous CC threads on it.
This is totally doable - at the right school. It will be important to check out the curriculum and requirements of the schools you apply to. I know it’s been done at Northwestern. Their quarter system allows students to take more classes which makes it more doable to double major in two such intense fields.
A cliche often given to theater majors is- if you can think of another job where you will be happy- do that. If you are passionate about premed- be premed. There will always be ways that theater can be a part of your life
It would be next to impossible to go the BFA route, get those prerequisites in four years and with a stellar GPA/MCAT score and don’t forget about the shadowing and bench work (research) that med schools want to see. My MT junior daughter goes to school from 8-5 MWF and 8-2:30 TH with rehearsals from 6-10:30 every night plus weekend rehearsals. No time to study hours for biochem, physics, A&P plus the lab work. My other junior daughter is a bio/English Lit major on a premed track and she is just as busy as her MT sister.