<p>My husband took her to MC and he remembers that she like it but she doesn't. HAHA I amazed that in this economy so many kids can afford to apply ED. Myolder son went to Babson and I don't remember this college process as being so stressful. Due to the fact that she is pre-med it is very important that she goes to a school with a decent bio dept. So fat the staff at Ursinus have been quite wonderful to deal with. Everytime we go there they wine and dine you and were very cooperative when she spent the night there. Itis just wierd that the average person has not heard of the school.</p>
<p>soozi1 et al.: If your child is going pre-med Ursinus make sure they are ok with taking alot of Ecology courses, take a look at what the required courses are and not just what is in the catalog but what is offered every year. There aren't ALOT of strictly human courses and research is kinda slim in that area. Nerology/Genetics research will be with Dr. Kohn, students work with C. elegans (worms), Cardiac research is with Dr. Baily and students work with mice, Dr. Lobo does some interesting things too, if you are really interested and want to get a sense of what Pre-med is all about I would seek out some professors on your next visit. Courses that include human components include 212 Cell Bio, 213 Genetics, 3xx Developmental Bio and 306 Physiology (with Dr. Baily) everything else is insects, fishes etc etc. The ESS major is actually more suited to pre-med...at least some students seem to think so. Good Luck!</p>
<p>PS. The wining and dining ends when you hand over the first check...they downgraded our meal plan last year and arranged things so we couldn't use meal swipes to pay for non-perishable/pre-made items this semester.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information. What is ESS?</p>
<p>Exercise and Sports Science...they have some good classes but it is not a major highly regarded by the school's Bio/Pre-Med staff or med schools...I was taught, as a Bio major, to regard it as the Bio cop out major... it will not draw as good a med school letter as a straight Bio major even though it is a better prep for med school. Just be sure your child is OK with a fair amount of ecology...</p>
<p>Fly the Helo what year in schoo are you at Ursinus? So the anatomy classes are few and far between and not offer every semester?</p>
<p>Senior.</p>
<p>Not every semester, but within 3 they usually run through all of the courses they advertise.</p>
<p>Anatomy was recently moved over from ESS to BIO, but Anatomy 305 and Physiology 306 are pretty much the only completely human courses, I didn't get to take anatomy. They had a professor retire who used to teach it so it wasn't offered at the right time for me, I think this is the first or second semester it is back since my first year. They also combined BIO111 and BIO100 (Bio for non science majors) into a single class that non science majors can deal with, making 212 Cell Bio the new weed out course. BIO 111 was 3 days a week at the earliest possible time of the day with a long lab, massive and long exams and was designed to thin the ranks. The pre-medical program, remember, is not a major just a track, it doesn't compare to a pre-med program at a University that is associated with a medical school, for instance.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the Bio program at Muhlenberg is more gearded to the human body? Fly you have been most helpful to me. My daughter said that she heard the info you provided abot ecology. She spent the night there and sat in aa Biology class that was about evolution. The teacher wasn;t to thrilled that she was there. Are you sorry that you went to Ursinus?</p>
<p>Sorry, though not so much for the education that I have received, I am the last one to bash the Professors and save one or two they have been helpful, caring and understanding, I have written award and tenure recommendations for a few. </p>
<p>I have never heard of a Red and Gold being mistreated by a Prof. and I have been in class with some very vocal ones. If it was evolution I would imagine it was the new intro Bio class...the 111/100 hybrid I was talking about usually taught by Robert and Ellen Dawley or Peter Small. I doubt Peter or Robert would have given her an attitude of any sort, they both have very...ummm...active....senses of humor, perhaps she misunderstood something? Do you know who the Prof was, their sex and/or the course?</p>
<p>I have friends elsewhere who are doing undergrad gross anatomy labs and have good hospital internships available to them, I feel that I missed out on that to some extent...though, the ability to double major in both art and science has been valuable.</p>
<p>Fly where do your friends go to school?</p>
<p>Its kind of unfair to compare big universities affiliated with med schools and a small liberal arts college, I believe firmly that there is something to be said for a good liberal arts education, but as far as pre-med no one can hold a candle to the programs and resources of those types of Universities. I have a friend at Hopkins.</p>
<p>My D didn't want a university because they are larger and have TAs.</p>
<p>Wants TAs? hmm...well, we have TAs in lab courses and writing assistants assigned to many classes...usually schools like to float the fact that they have professors doing all of the teaching, also, we of course do not have post-grad students.</p>
<p>She doesn't want TA s at all. Especially teaching a class.</p>
<p>Oh wow, I missed that, sorry. TAs don't really have anything to do with anything here, just lab help.</p>