<p>im confused. I want to stdy medicine but am unsure of how i works. What do I do or major in the first four years until its time for med school. Id like to go to Cuny honors at Hunter, if you know how it work there great if not, in general.</p>
<p>you can major in whatever you want...just make sure that you take the required courses.</p>
<p>Just make sure you take at least one semester of calculus, Bio I & II, Chem I & II, Org I & II, and Phys I & II.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is to major in what you love, and you'll do well. You don't have to major in a science or science related field.</p>
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<p>You don't have to major in premed or science to go to med school????Are you sure about that one? At the very least you would be way behind people once you got to med school, but would you even get accepted??</p>
<p>False. At my alma mater (Williams) the music department boasts that its majors have a higher rate of attending med school than the biology department. There are 11 required med school courses. You need to do well in those, and in your MCATS, and show some significant interest in medicine, but med schools generally like folks who have a wide range of interests (and won't turn into physician-drones once they enter the profession.) </p>
<p>The big deal in med school these days is not getting in, but figuring out how to pay for it ($200k plus, after undergraduate.)</p>
<p>so if I study the classics and anthropology, take the med courses, do well on Mcats and show intrest I can get in?</p>
<p>Yep...that's about it. Major in what you love, and the grades will come, as well as grad school admissions.</p>
<p>I've heard that it is important to attend a school with a good premed advisor. Some colleges and universities do not have a premed advisor at all. You can still apply to med school, but it would be nice to have someone keep an eye on your courses to be sure that you fulfill all of the requirements. It is also important to be someplace where you can volunteer at a hospital, get involved with a professor's research, etc. You could do this in the summer, of course, but it would be harder to arrange it all on your own.</p>