<p>I was accepted to both and am looking to major in the humanities yet still fulfill pre-med requirements. Do you think this will be too difficult to handle at a place like JHU?</p>
<p>it wont be too hard to handle if you can handle med school!!!</p>
<p>j.k, yeah i mean plenty of people major in the social science or humanities and still complete pre med reqs. It might actually even be the best route because you don’t have to load up on science courses like science and engineering students do (you can space out the reqs more) and you’ll definitely be covering your distribution requirements for N,Q courses, etc.</p>
<p>Just to expand on what <em>idk</em>said about distribution requirements, in case you’re not familiar with what that means: As a humanities major, you’ll be required to take 12 credits of science courses and an additional 18 credits of “non-major requirements” - this should give you more than enough room in your schedule/major requirements to take all the pre-med requirement courses. I’ve known humanities pre-med majors at Hopkins (and there are a number of humanities graduates in my med school class), so its definitely possible to do. See [url=<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/advising/checklists.html]here[/url”>http://www.jhu.edu/advising/checklists.html]here[/url</a>] for more information on major requirements.</p>
<p>thanks tanman, i was just curious if humanities majors were at a big disadvantage by taking the basic pre-med classes with BME and other types of science majors who have a relatively easy time with those types of classes.</p>
<p>The pre-med requirement courses are all introductory level courses (intro bio, chem, organic chem, etc) so I don’t think that science majors are at an advantage. You could argue that science majors are more interested in science so they may have taken more science courses in high school, but if you’re humanities major who wants to go to med school, I assume you have some interest in science as well and have a decent science background from high school. All-in-all, I really don’t think that you’ll be at any disadvantage as a humanties major in the pre-med requirement courses since few people will already know the material coming into the class</p>
<p>Med schools love humanities/language majors… there are very few of them…</p>