<p>Can someone please give me a breakdown on what exactly pre-med is?
Also, is psychology a good premed? How about bilogy?</p>
<p>Biology is great for pre-med. Bio is usually the go-to degree for people that want to go to med school and go to a school that doesn’t offer a pre med program</p>
<p>Ok, thankyou. But why should i go to a school that doesnt offer pre-med?
what if i decide to major in something completely unrelated</p>
<p>also, hiow do i declare that i am applying for pre-med?</p>
<p>Pre-med is not a major. You can select any major you want as long as you fulfill the required coureses to apply to Medical School. Biology is a common major since the required courses for the major will fulfill the Medical school requirements:
1 year General Chem
1 year Organic Chem
1 year Biology
1 year Physics
1 semester BioChem
1 year English
1 year Calculus</p>
<p>You also need to do medically related EC’s and get a good score on the MCAT. I know Psychology majors and even History majors that have applied to Medical School. Most schools will offer Biology as a major, but some schools will have advisors for Pre-Med, Pre-Dental, Pre-Pharm which would help you focus on the needed requirements.</p>
<p>One small correction to Gumbymom’s list above ^^</p>
<p>You need </p>
<p>1 year of math, not calculus.</p>
<p>Math should be 1 semester of calc and 1 semester of statistics.</p>
<p>Stats questions are included on all 4 subsections of the MCAT.</p>
<p>Only a small number of medical schools require 2 semesters of calculus–only about 4 or 5. </p>
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<p>Biology, biochem or chemistry majors tend to have the greatest overlap with pre-med requirements, but really you can major in anything.</p>
<p>Both my daughters are in medical school; neither of them was a bio or chem major. They have classmates with majors ranging from forestry to music performance to mathematics to business communications to theology. </p>
<p>Pick a major that you like because students who enjoy their majors tend to do better academically. </p>
<p>Being “premed” means that you hope, dream, aspire to go to med school/career in medicine. It is not a major. Med schools do not care what your major is. They do care very much about how well you do grade wise in your major, GE courses, and also premed course reqs. It’s also very important that you do well on MCAT as this is considered a high stakes exam. In theory you should pick an area to major in that you are interested in because you’re more likely to do well in material that you are interested in. People tend to choose bio as “premed” major because you’re killing two birds with one stone as major/premed reqs get satisfied as same time. A psych major would not say be required to take chem/physics sequences. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thankyou all so much. so helpful!</p>