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Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I"m currently a high school student, I'm applying to college in VA such as JMU, VCU, GMU, UVA, Mary Washington, and 1 CC which is NVCC (aka Nova). Now I'm not sure if you guys know, but should one take the Pre-Med courses in a CC? As well, if I were to transfer out from Nova to JMU, how would I got about taking Pre-Med Courses? Same thing if I were to go to JMU from the start, how would I go about taking Pre-Med Courses there? Do I just sign up? What would be a good/decent GPA to be considered into med school? I know it's a lot of question, but I've always had a passion for medicine.</p>

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<p>Pre med is an intention, not a major, so yes, you basically just enroll in the necessary pre-med classes at either NOVA or JMU–or wherever you matriculate.</p>

<p>Depending on what you plan to major in, you may take slightly different courses at NOVA than you would at JMU. At NOVA, you’d take most of the GE (general education or distribution requirements) courses that will required for graduation at JMU. Things like freshman comp, an upper level English class, basic math, calc 1, stats, psych, sociology, gen chem, physics. If you’re planning to major in biology, you could also take intro biology. </p>

<p>After you transfer, you’ll need Ochem, biochem and upper level bio classes.</p>

<p>Please meet with the transfer advisor at NOVA to make sure you fulfill any transfer requirements.</p>

<p>At JMU, you’ll probably take pretty much the same classes, but will be able to take OChem as sophomore instead of after transferring. </p>

<p>If you do matriculate in NOVA, you will need to delay applying to med school until after graduation. For several reasons, but mostly because you’ll need to have completed biochem before you take the MCAT and will need 2 full years of grades from a 4 year college to present a strong application.</p>

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<p>In Virginia, the successful applicant has overall GPA >3.6 and a science GPA >3.7</p>

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