<p>Is there a actual pre-med or pre-dental major at BU, also how good is BU for kids that what to get into Med School, and lastly how many people at BU have hopes of going to Med School. If BU doesnt have a pre-med major then what major would i take??</p>
<p>BU has both Dental and Med grad schoosl, so it would be funny if they don't have a pre-proffessional programs in the undergad. So to answer you question, BU offers both.</p>
<p>There are no pre-med or pre-law majors as such, but there are pre-professional advising programs for those who plan to attend medical or law school.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.bu.edu/cas/advising/preprof.html%5DHere%5B/url">http://www.bu.edu/cas/advising/preprof.html]Here[/url</a>] is one link for advising.</p>
<p>There are no pre-med or pre-dental majors. Instead, pre-med and pre-dental are "tracks" where you can have just about any major in which you'll be able to satisfy the requirements for the track your on as well as the requirements for your major. Pre-med and pre-dental kids can have any major from chemistry to mechanical engineering (most are in biology or biomed engineering I think), to anything really, as long as they can do what I said above, but obviously the requirements line up better if you take a math/science major.</p>
<pre><code>To answer your other question, tons and tons of kids say they are pre-med/pre-dental (I'd say like 50%-70% of science-like majors say they are), but that thins down really quickly as time goes by, and I think only a relatively small fraction remains by junior year (possibly largely due to organic chem...).
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<p>ya that makes sense, i guess it really doesnt matter what your major is called as long as the major you pick has the req. for med-school. I just have one more questions though, this one might be hard to answer, does anyone here know how many kids BU med school takes that are from BU undergrad? I always asumed that a school with a med school will take alot of kids from their undergrad, i was just wondering if BU followed this trend. If no one know what those stats are does anyone know were i might find that kind of info b/c i cant really find that stat on BU or any school for that matter.</p>
<p>OK, well first BU has a 7 year program where you apply to BU but also to this program and about 20 students get accepted each year. Then, there's MMEDIC, where there's 10 spots open and about 7 people are accepted each year. Finally, after all that, BU accepts about 25 students from regular undergrad BU, making about 50 of the 150 med students (from one year) BU graduates. I am applying for the MMEDIC program rite now, and i'm a nutrition major in sargent. i know tons of premeds that are bio majors and others that are french majors or are in smg. it's definately do-able. if you wanna go to med school, going to BU for undergrad is far from a disadvantage or a hindrance to your future application for med school, whether at BU or elsewhere.</p>
<p>i dont know if this is the same at bu but i recently visited university of michigan and i asked a woman that does a lot of undergraduate advising if the chances of getting into a michigan grad school (whether it be law, med etc) was higher if you go to michigan and she said this (which i found really interesting)</p>
<p>"michigan tries to have a diverse student body even in graduate school so there may be a few spots for michigan undergrads in the graduate program but michigan likes much more to see students from different undergraduate education to provide a more diverse enviornment."</p>
<p>i dont know if that helps or not...</p>
<p>Two words: GRADE DEFLATION.</p>
<p>Public schools have different mandates. Michigan Law, for example, takes only 50% in-state versus 80% for the California schools and a similar % for Virginia - may be 60% but I forget. (If you want to go to Berkeley for law, live in California.) Similar rules apply for other graduate schools, but law tends to be one of the larger, high standard (high professional pay) schools. Private schools can set their own standards. Some of the very prestigious ones make very clear it's easier to get from another school somewhere else than from their own undergrad. Yale's law school, being small, takes only a few Yale undergrads - maybe 10, which is a fairly high percentage but a low absolute number. Harvard's class is much bigger so they take more Harvard students but still the vast majority are from elsewhere. </p>
<p>Regional diversity in professional schools matters for the practical reason that the school develops an alumni network in different parts of the country. That means $$ and connections that help the school.</p>
<p>Medical school admissions have become much more competitive. There are just under 70,000 people in medical school in the entire country - and some are of course older. All of Mass has only 2538 medical students and this is a major medical ed center.</p>
<p>GRADE DEFLATION is right… If BU is your top choice go for it, but if there are other schools you were accepted to right in the same range of prestige I’d so go for those schools. Science is ridiculous at BU, no joke. You have to be willing to give your life up and still expect unsatisfying grades. It’s sad, BU pre-med will ruin you. I’m going to be a sophomore and many of my friends have been owned by the pre-med track. I am still going strong, but I have a few tips. If you’re gonna be a freshman, take chem 109-110. They advisors say it’s harder, and it might be, but its 136 kids compared to the 700+ in CH 101-102. They don’t curve in 101-102 and the averages are in the low 50’s high 40’s. CH 109-110 on the other hand has averages in the 50 range but they usually curve to around a C+, it depends on the professor. In the end, you’ll never find out how the final averages were calculated and you’ll be left with a subpar grade in your hands, unless you own every test… and i mean OWN and do very well in lab. I had a crappy experience with chem, but hopefully you’ll be more successful. As for Bio, if you got a 4 or 5 on the AP bio exam take BI 118. There’s about 28 kids in the class and you learn a lot more than you would in BI 107-108. Just be prepared to read a **** ton and read in advance, that’s the only way to do well. The key to success in BU science is to be better than the rest. You don’t have to get 90s to get an A, but you do need to kill the class average. If you can consistently score in the B/B+ range you’re set. It’s not as easy as it sounds. P.S. if you go into the pre-med advising office you will not get any sympathy. If your GPA is ****ty they will tear you apart - be prepared to cry if you’re a sensitive person. I witnessed a junior’s life goals get torn to pieces and the kid left all frazzled looking and depressed. BU PRE-MED IS A TOUGH ROAD, THINK IT THROUGH BEFORE YOU CHOOSE TO COME HERE!</p>
<p>hahaha dude they definitely kurve in khem (sorry my key is broken so the 1 letter i kant type is kind of obvious so i’ll use k’s). i got a b+ my first semester an an a- my 2nd semester and i basikally just beat the average on every exam and did average in lab. i slept through bi 107/108 and got b+'s. still not solid a’s, but i got into medikal skhool (hahahaha this paragraph looks so dumb with these k’s) and will be starting in the fall. yes the pre-med offike is tough, extremely, but i think they do it bekause they feel like they’re trying to motivate you to improve. but yea, if you kan take honors kourses then i’d do it bekause i’ve heard its mukh easier sinke you get individualized attention. premed is not impossible, but it requires a similar kommitment to the one youll have to make in medikal skhool (though med skhool will be mukh more diffikult than premed obviously), so i feel that its an outstanding program at BU that requires a lot from its students. premed kourses are, basikally, weed-out kourses to get rid of the students who really dont want to be doktors, bekause if they want it bad enough they’ll keep working hard and make the grades. About 1/4 of your inkoming klass will be premed, and many of those are either just doing it for their parents or to feel it out and really dont want to stay on the trak.</p>
<p>The 2nd post above is exactly on point, but not necessarily in the intended way. Pre-med is hard. Get that? Pre-med is hard. It’s supposed to be hard because a) it’s hard to get into medical school and b) believe it or not, they actually want hard-working, intelligent doctors. </p>
<p>So go anywhere you want in the entire US and you’ll find this is true: pre-med is hard. </p>
<p>And here’s another truth: science is hard. The amount of material you cover seems to grow exponentially - just look at how our understanding of biology changes. You need more and more math and technical skills because now medicine depends on computers and statistics. Wait until your organic chemistry lab because for many it becomes the definition of suffering. Want to be a doctor? You have to work for it and you have to understand that lots of people aren’t going to make it. </p>
<p>Applying to medical or law school is largely a numbers game, but I suggest you read those forums because then you’ll understand that graduate schools aren’t exactly idiots. They know average GPA’s so, no, you don’t get an advantage if somehow you find the magical school where you do little work and everyone gets an A.</p>
<p>Were you in ch 101 or ch 109. I want to go to med school. Chemistry is my weakness but i am willing to learn. Which should i take? Help help help</p>
<p>I took Chem 101/102. Med schools don’t really care if you took regular or advanced chemistry. Your GPA is more important. If you want to take advanced chemistry for your major, or for you personally, then do it. However, keep in mind that every science class you take is factored into your science GPA, which is very important for medical school applications.</p>
<p>If you would like to get a tutor for Chem, how would you find one.
Do juniors/seniors/grad students tutor? How do you find one?</p>
<p>i would either ask the professor or the TF. i’m pretty sure it’s upper classmen that tutor.</p>
<p>Hey just wondering if pre med is really hard here? Thanks</p>
<p>Pre-med is challenging, you have to work hard to be successful. But you get excellent training here, and it’s great MCAT prep. Feel free to PM me with any specific questions.</p>