How hard is pre med ?

<p>Kal, your S is CS major? Why he decides going into med school right after college? just being curious, is it easier to get professional experience in computer field, then leverage that to health field? NYT just profiled a Mt. sinai professor, former facebook engineer, big data scientist, cracking DNA data.</p>

<p>My son is a double major in CS and Biology with a minor in Linguistics. He is applying in this cycle and in fact is anxiously waiting for AMCAS verification. Quite a few of the kids from his class got into internships at companies like Microsoft, Google and Goldman Sachs, for the last couple of summers. Unfortunately, with research, MCAT prep and summer classes, that was not an option for my son, even though he had opportunities. </p>

<p>At JHU, there are a lot of undergrad research opportunities for CS majors who want to pursue pre-med, in some interesting inter-disciplinary areas. Hopkins CS department is big in advanced prosthetics, medical robotics and computer aided surgery. A significant portion of my son’s research work has been in computer integrated surgery and medical robotics. He actually did an REU in medical robotics at JHU. He published a paper and presented it at a medical robotics conference.</p>

<p>There is a high likelihood that my son will defer his med school admission. He and a three other kids started a startup company that is getting a significant interest from venture capitalists. A charitable venture capital organization, just yesterday offered them some capital, free office space in Manhattan, in addition to free legal and financial advice. Unfortunately all the partners are pre-med students. One of them already deferred his 2013 OSU med school admission to 2014. They want to see how things shape up this year and make a decision.</p>

<p>If your willing to can u tel us your mcat scores gpa and the med schools you were accepted to based on those criteria and where you go to/ went to me school?</p>

<p>MCAT and GPA don’t get anyone into med school. They are important and you can’t get in without them but to even remotely think that paints an accurate picture of where someone does or doesn’t get in is absurd.</p>

<p>I mostly agree with what IWBB said. However, I would put it this way - folks with a high MCAT and GPA are highly likely to get admitted into some MD program somewhere unless they really went out of their way in shooting themselves in the foot.</p>

<p>That’s because of all the other things those high achievers do though.</p>

<p>“For example waiting the night before to study for a bio exam that covers 10 chapters doesn’t work.”
-Certainly correct. As an example, D. has mentioned something that got stuck in my head. 30 hours to prep. for one her Orgo exams. One night (one day, all 24 hours) would not be enough. Got to take care of yourself, sleep, eat, go to lectures, do the work for other classes, all ECs, job, and other responsibilities, and god forbit that you get sick, so make sure that taking care of yourself (your physical shape, good food, enough sleep, keep you surroundings clean, go to gym…) is definitely priority #1. If you are not well, you cannot do anything at all.<br>
On a notion about MCAT score and high GPA. While they will not get you into Med. School if there is nothing else to add to them, the low score and/or low GPA will absolutely cut you off, lock the door. So, please, take care of these, and, yes, make sure your ECs are competitive and you are still having social life and mature as a person and hopefully have personal interests outside of medicine. Nobody likes hermits who kept themselves in their rooms, studying most of the time. Nope. Have a great, rich college experience, gain new skills, improve your best ones, do not focus too much on Med. School, find the way to enjoy, do not tailor everything to Med. School requirements.</p>