<p>Here's hoping 2008 with be a great year for all Noles!</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>same to you... should be a very exciting year for us as we prepare to send off s #1 to fsu.</p>
<p>p2n.. thanks for all your input along the way.</p>
<p>Is one of your d's a senior?</p>
<p>Yes, D1 is a senior and will graduate next semester. She's applying to med school...hopefully some word on that soon.</p>
<p>good luck! is she applying to FSU COM?</p>
<p>Yep. FSU COM, all the other FL COMs (except Miami) and six others. The admission fees add up... :eek:</p>
<p>Wow, she must be very stressed out. I'm thinking of doing the premed track. Don't you usually apply to the schools during junior year after the MCATs?
I'm thinking of doing a BS chemistry with the premed pre-reqs + minor in Japanese. I'm a bit concerned with having to achieve such a high GPA. Has she found the courseload extremely difficult?</p>
<p>She's a biochemistry major and yes, the coursework is very difficult. It's not so much pre-med as merely a major that meets the requirements of allopathic med schools.</p>
<p>You must also show substantial commitment to help others and find some exposure to the medical world.</p>
<p>She also performed significant research as an undergrad. </p>
<p>The sum of it all is very wearisome. Then you have to prepare for the MCAT, write many, many essays and simultaneously balance your academic work.</p>
<p>P2N --We wish your daughter the best in medical school, sounds like she has really earned her success.</p>
<p>Happy Nole Year to everyone!</p>
<p>P2N - We wish your daughter every success in her admissions process for Med school! We know you and Mrs. P2N must be very proud of her!</p>
<p>Thanks - she's worked very hard. We're very proud of both D1 and D2. Their leaving was harder on me than on their mother...never saw that coming. </p>
<p>Vacations at home amount typically to D1 and D2 sleeping, eating and just recovering from the work. Lately its been writing essays then writing more essays for "secondaries", then more fees then you sit and wait for an interview...</p>
<p>FSU is good for pre-med if you take advantage of the opportunities:</p>
<ol>
<li> Undergraduate research</li>
<li> Honors program</li>
<li> Record your volunteer work hours on your university transcript</li>
<li> A multitude of opportunities for mentoring others</li>
<li> Very active organizations on/near campus for volunteer work</li>
</ol>
<p>I've seen the pre-med advising for FSU, and it looks like a great program as well. I've worked in a pharmacy for about 2000+ hours now, and I am taking the PTCB exam soon (when I graduate high school). I am trying to decide between becoming a pharmacist or a physician. I really don't want to be locked into retail, since that's where most of the pharmacist jobs are that are high paying. A lot of the pre-reqs are the same for both, so I think I will have some more time to decide.</p>
<p>Congrats to P2N for raising a daughter that just applies to med school! That takes a tremendous focus, commitment and passion, regardless of whatever happens next.</p>
<p>I am wondering if P2N can give me some fodder for my in-law (UF grad) doctors, who don't think highly of the FSU med school model, as they tell me that going to public hospitals for their last two years does not really get them the education they need or would get at a university teaching hospital. Their argument stems from the use of practicing doctors teaching FSU students, and the real world knowledge that these doctors don't have the time or as much inclination as they should to truly teach the students (given the pressures of patient load and making money).</p>
<p>I am sure there is more to it than that, but I don't have any real world insights to argue against them. Do you?</p>
<p>CoachMom,</p>
<p>I really am out of my field in proposing that the FSU distributed Med model is better than having a teaching hospital as I am not an MD and well see the advantages to the traditional teaching hospital approach. What I can say, however, is that the residency match of FSU has placed quite a number of FSU Med graduates in top-level programs as you may see here (several to UF's COM, I might add):
FSU</a> COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ANNOUNCES MATCH RESULTS</p>
<p>One would think that if FSU's COM were not doing such a good job training docs compared to the UF COM they (UF) would not be hiring so many of FSU's graduates. ;)</p>
<p>I should add my older daughter is totally sold on the FSU COM mission. She seriously believes those without the means to see an MD should be able to see one, like anyone else.</p>
<p>Depending on how things go I may share a bit more about her depth of commitment to medically underserved populations later. It'll blow your mind...</p>