<p>When going to college..how do u choose to do premed right away?</p>
<p>Also, Can being premed and majoring in criminal just/law enforcement help or hurt you?</p>
<p>Premed is just a track of courses required by med schools (1 yr gen bio, 1 yr gen chem, 1 yr organic chem, 1 yr physics, 1 yr english... math requirements vary).</p>
<p>Your major does not matter one bit in med school admission. Check out the premed topics forum on CC for a lot more info.</p>
<p>Goldshadow is right. You don't need to major in anything specific to get into med school. Premed is basically just classes you need to fulfill in order to qualify. You do need to take the MCAT exam for med school however. Most premed students tend to major in something science related but that's mainly because it's their area of interest. Criminal just/law enforcement won't hurt or help you.</p>
<p>but what do you do???</p>
<p>like on the first day of school do you go to a counselor and say you want to do premed or they ask or what??</p>
<p>Well, you'll probably be assigned an academic advisor at your school, and this would be something you'd want to talk to them about. It is their job to help you formulate your schedule based on your interests, plans, and goals. At least, ideally. They would help you set up your courses so that you're able to complete all of the premed requirements, as well as your major requirements, and any core/distributional requirements your college has. </p>
<p>Now, at many colleges, advising is not quite as...successful. You will likely have to take it into your own hands to make sure you get all your classes done. This will require looking up on the internet what is required in order to enter med school, and making sure you take all of those classes at some point during college. Basically, you're being your own advisor, by doing research and putting it to use.</p>
<p>In order to take the MCAT exam, it appears from their website that it is very similar to the SAT in terms of registration: you can sign up online, and then you go and take the test when and where it is offered.</p>
<p>And there is a chance that your school will have specific premed advising, or some other resource that you can use to help get stuff done. But there's no way of knowing exactly what your school will help you with until you know what school you're going to.</p>