<p>I’ll be very curious what you’d say in about a year. You’d be at Case. You might be in engineering. You’ll be able to experience “college:” all that freedom and all those tests and grades and maybe all that work. One thing I suspect will change, so long as you have an open mind: you’ll have a much better attitude about Case.</p>
<p>As a mom, the one sentence that stood out to me the most was when you said you didn’t like the school you were going to attend. I don’t know why, but that struck a chord as a parent. I have two sons who started out, both, as intending to eventually go to med school. One did bioengineering, the other liberal arts/sciences. One of them is now in med school, but not because of the choice of major… but because of the heart. If you start in engineering, you will take chemistry, biology, and math during your first year. If you decide that it’s not for you, those credits will transfer to something else. My greatest advice is that if you enjoy studying it, you will enjoy working it.</p>
<p>I have an open mind, but I’d rather have low hopes and be pleasantly surprised than have high hopes and be dissapointed. I know what ive heard about Case, and I’ve heard it enough times to wonder if it’s true. But I’d love to be proven wrong about my opinions.</p>
<p>Engineering premed girl:</p>
<p>Please listen to me. Your major doesn’t matter. Adcoms could care less what you majored in. Try to attain the minimum GPA no matter what happens or what you decide on.</p>
<p>The kicker is the MCAT. Schools put about 80% of their emphasis on this test because they only want the best test takers in the country. Whatever you choose, spend all four years if you can taking practice tests, passages, and reading review books. The MCAT rules in admissions, and you must get a high score or you won’t get into medical schools.</p>
<p>Having a life is fine. You can have as much a life as you want in college. This is because college is easy, the hard part is the MCAT. You can’t have a life when you study for the MCAT because the MCAT becomes your life. You must live for the MCAT and your life must revolve around the MCAT. The MCAT will become your signifiant other and you will have to respect and think about him/her for every second of the day. The MCAT is everything.</p>