<p>I absolutely love the International Health option in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. That is the type of career I envision myself in ten years from now. Yet I've heard from a few people that applying to NHS is a cop-out way of getting admissions to Georgetown since it garners the least prestige of the five undergraduate schools. I feel that I'd be competitive in applying to any of Georgetown's schools and i want to keep the option of applying to Med School open for the future. I guess my question is do medical schools and other grad schools see a degree from NHS as being comparable to one from the general college?</p>
<p>your degree is from georgetown...you won't have a problem getting into med school if you do well at georgetown in the right class, no matter what undergrad school you're in.</p>
<p>and early apps to NHS DOUBLED this year. so i think it's going to lose that 'cop-out' reputation really quickly.</p>
<p>Im an international health major and I absolutely love NHS... NHS has the highest percentage of students doing pre-med and we (in my opinion) have the best faculty to use as resources for questions, recommendations, etc. For example, my faculty advisor is the health services director at the world bank...third in line behind wolfowitz. He does what I dream of doing. Simply, if international health is what you want to do, apply to the NHS. You won't be dissappointed.</p>
<p>seeing how our science classes are VERY difficult, and we are part of the med center, including having courses and labs in the med school, this really isn't even a question.</p>
<p>Gtown2010 who's your advisor? I've got McCulloch.</p>
<p>How many of the International Health students are pre-med? My daughter applied EA with borderline stats but is not pre-med - didn't realize the program was a popular pre-med degree. My guess is the stats will be higher among pre-med applicants!
She will apply to a mix of nursing and health options at a variety of colleges but the Gtown program is perfect as she hopes to work for an International aid organization someday and isn't sure she wants the full nursing program.</p>
<p>Human Science is the most popular pre-med NHS major, and a larger percentage of international health students are not pre-med than are.</p>
<p>jasonhoya, you say the sciences classes are very difficult, do you mean the general premed req. or say the classes within the majors (like microbio etc.)? Or both?</p>
<p>Don't you take your premed reqs with everyone else at the college? And is it difficult compared to your friends at other colleges or is it just hard in general?</p>
<p>YES to all of your questions. pre-med reqs are very difficult (with the exception of physics). we have one of the hardest (most fast paced, most in-depth) organic chemistry curricula in the country and 4 of the brightest, most capable and most demanding professors who teach it. I compare the topics we cover in orgo to those covered in orgo at schools like boston college and uva...there is a huge difference. even in general chemistry, we were covering material that is ordinarily only taught to chemistry majors in inorganic chemistry. the classes within the nhs majors (pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology) are also very difficult. all premed requirements are taken in the college with the exception of human biology, which is an exclusively NHS class.</p>
<p>I got into NHS and I too love the International Health program! I was having doubts about it, but all of your posts have absolutely convinced me of its excellence! And I too Mikey101, believe that I would have been quite competitive applying to any other of their schools as well... I get really annoyed and offended when people ask me if I'm just planning to transfer to the other schools once I get in.... As for doing pre-med studies in NHS, my college interviewer is a doctor (dermatologist) but majored in English, and told me that it's much better to be in the college if I want to do pre-med. What do you guys think? Also, what kind of factors do you think were involved in the doubling of applicants?</p>
<p>bump>>>>>>>>
can you transfer within NHS
lets say nursing to inter. health</p>
<p>yeah all it takes is a bit of paperwork and you're set. Changing schools is a lot tougher though</p>
<p>not that much tougher. all u need to do is fill out a short application, write an essay about why, and they look @ your transcript. i transferred from the College to NHS. a friend of mine transferred from the MSB to SFS and he had arounda 2.6 GPA. as long as you have good reasons, you should be fine. taking courses in the major/school you want to go to also would help.</p>
<p>This is all very interesting. I'm hearing two-sided answers though: sciences are bad here, sciences are very tough here...what's the truth? How well do the sciences prepare you compared to those at other schools? How's the acceptance rate to NHS for 1st year students?</p>
<p>"Sciences are bad" is more a reflection of the generally behind-the-times nature of the science facilities, i.e. the Reiss building. This makes it harder to attract the top science profs, to do cutting edge research, etc. It has very little impact on whether the classes are soul-crushingly tough or not. Based on everything I've heard from people I know who are pre-med or science majors, the classes are indeed quite challenging and offer an excellent academic experience.</p>