Exercise Science to Med School?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>IS this ok to do? I have decided to either major in this or Biomedical Engineering. Would one be better than the other? I will have a AP credit in Calculus 1 if that matters at all.
thanks</p>

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<p>Exercise Science does not sound like an academic major, so I wouldn’t major in it.</p>

<p>Don’t pick a major because you think it’ll be good for applying to medical schools. Adcoms won’t be impressed, and it won’t give you any significant leg up during the basic science years.</p>

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<p>Exercise science is a good choice as long as you fulfill the prerequisites for med school. Certainly the anatomy, physiology and kinesiology courses will give you a sound background.</p>

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<p>I don’t think post #3 is right. Kinesiology is a pre-PT track. You want something liberal-arts and academic – biology, in this case, is the relevant one. Pre-health majors uniformly score the worst on the MCAT and do the poorest in admissions.</p>

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<p>I know this is just a single data point: The self-reported data on page 28 from this link</p>

<p><a href=“http://cspd.rice.edu/emplibrary/Post%20Graduate%20Survey%202007.pdf[/url]”>http://cspd.rice.edu/emplibrary/Post%20Graduate%20Survey%202007.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>shows that only 2 out of 16 Kinesiology majors (and 28 out of 44 are unreported) got into a medical school (SLU, and the other two might get into a public health program at UT Houston), and these two students also double-majored in another more academic-oriented major, BIOC (I think it is Biochemistry and Cell Biology.)</p>

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<p>I don’t think your major has to be an “academic major.” In my class, there are health science majors, exercise sciences, and nutritional science majors.</p>

<p>Pick whichever you want. At for my schools ADCOMs, they don’t really look at majors. It mostly that you finished the the pre-reqs, mcat, ecs, essay, and interview.</p>

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<p>Take the classes that are required at the med schools you will apply to. Do well in all of those and whatever other science classes you take. It doesn’t matter what your major is so long as you do that other than some majors helping you prepare better for your mcat.</p>