I truly, deeply appreciate your help. I’ve decided on taking AP Calculus AB, AP Government, AP Biology and AP Psychology to make room for extracurricular activities.
I stopped taking Arabic after my first two years of High School, but both were honors classes so I’m just going to pick up on it next year by taking Arabic 4 at my nearby community college. I actually am of Middle Eastern descent (my entire family is from there) but I was born and raised in the USA. Will this prove to be detrimental to me and put me on the same boat as an immigrant? (no pun intended)
No. Not at all. Med schools love people who are other than Bio or Biochem majors. Colleges like it too, that you took a language which is considered difficult by Americans. It only looks lazy if, say, you immigrated to the US at age 12 and were already fluent in written and spoken standard Arabic, and then took it as your foreign language.
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No, it wouldn’t hurt you at all: in fact medical schools appreciate fluency in world languages spoken by immigrant communities (ie., as a doctor, you’ll be able to communicate more effectively). In addition, in college, you can get certified to be a medical translator and have clinical hours that way.
However, be careful: HS levels 1+2= College level 1, meaning you’d enter Level 2 in college for one semester, then Level 3 for one semester (which would match HS level 4 typically).
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My guy had a double major (Brain & Cognitive Science + Biology) and double minor (American Sign Language + Psychology). Research was his Plan B. That’s not always advisable, but those he’d been researching under his whole college life kept trying to sway him that direction up until the end.
I’ve been trying to remember what his friend majored in and neither my son nor I remember to be honest. I can tell you he got a BS in something and finished in the top grouping of “X” Cum Laude students because I found his college graduation “brochure,” but it doesn’t say what each graduate majored in. He’s in residency now working in an ICU with Covid patients, but even on the hospital site it only talks about where he went to med school - not where he went to college nor what his major was.
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