<p>I'm a sophmore in highschool, I go to a private christian school where the GPA's/grades aren't weighted, like not up to 4.5 but 4 i guess, I have a 3.72 right now, I want to go here for like Medicine, do i have a chance?</p>
<p>also like should i take latin or spanish next year, I've heard that alot of medical terms are in latin so that would it be easier to understand, but idk it seems more practical to take spanish.</p>
<p>Latin is a dead language since all the romans are... well dead. so you could take latin and it would make it very easy to pick up many of the other romantic languages - Italian, french, spanish, Portuguese??(not sure on that) - still language is language, it would hurt you more if you take no language then latin. I took french in HS and Spanish and i have taken a year and a half of latin in college and the spanish and french make it a breeze. - i am going into law.. i hope.. but i really don't think you will need to take latin to get an upper hand with the medical terms - memorize and spit it back out, it isn't like they will ask you to translate a latin manuscript for the MCAT - focus on bio, chem, physics, calc, and logical/reasoning</p>
<p>They won't ask you to translate latin manuscripts, you're right, but knowing Latin is a big help in getting down the terms, especially for me. Throwing vocab in my face doesn't really help, what i like to do is understand things, so knowing roots and prefixes and suffixes greatly improves your knowledge in medical vocabulary.</p>
<p>yeah im taking honors bio right now, we dont have ap science classes till junior year. so AP Calc+ AP stats would be good to take senior year? So is that what basically is the MCAT?</p>
<p>sure. I took both calc and stats and they were pretty cool. MCAT is the test you take to get in to medical schools. kinda like ACT-SAT for med schools</p>