<p>Hello! </p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman majoring in Psychology while doing pre-med. I'm taking a bio course advising course and I've been told that the best route for my school for pre-meds is to follow the Cell and Molecular degree plan. I looked it over and it seems reasonable and meets nearly all the med school requirements. </p>
<p>However, the problem is that when I went through my 4yr plan there is NO WAY I can do both, unless I take extra hours (more than 16) for 3 or more semesters in a row. I have a strong passion for both subjects. The summer classes around here are just basic gen eds (which I'm planning to clep out of anyway). My current goal is to become a psychiatrist, but I'm not 100% certain on that. I'm also considering becoming a internal doctor (general doctor) or just going to grad school and becoming a clinical psychologist. </p>
<p>Should I just drop psych and go straight cell and molec, or vise versa? I'm really nervous as enrollment for next semester starts at the end of the month and depending on which path I want to take will cause me to pick vastly different schedules. </p>
<p>Any advice would help, thank you :)</p>
<p>If you’re even thinking about what it would take to do both psych and cell/molecular bio, it seems like psych is pretty important to you. You obviously can’t do both, and I wouldn’t give up psych lightly if it meant that much to me.</p>
<p>What reasons were you given for cell and molecular biology being the best path to med school?</p>
<p>Let me know if I’m interpretting this correctly: there’s not enough schedule space to major in psychology and cell & molecular bio? If your goal is to fulfill pre-med requirements, there is no innate problem with doing that while majoring in psychology.
If the problem is that you don’t have enough space for psychology + pre-med requirements, that is more of a problem. In that case would it be possible to change your major but minor in psychology?
Since you are fairly early on and considering a couple of different paths, I would recommend aiming to complete the pre-med requirements at this point. If you later decide you don’t want to go that route, that’s OK; you’ll still have taken some good classes that will also make you a strong graduate school applicant. But you’d be more stuck if you held off on all the pre-med stuff and later decided you wanted to take that route.</p>
<p>@NavalTradition It is the most rigorous and in the plan it has all but one pre-med requirement. Plus I REALLY LOVE the courses you have to take for that degree plan. </p>
<p>@nanotech Alright. So still do psych major, but also do pre-med. Alright. I’ll plan that out and see if that works. Psych is just really weird since they have courses offered only “spring odd years” and you have to have taken a course before you can take that.</p>
<p>I’d talk to an advisor to help you find out if there are any catches or any other bits like you mentioned that you might miss. If your school has a pre-med advisor they are also helpful with this sort of thing.</p>
<p>If you can’t handle more than 16 credit hours, I’m not sure medical school is the best choice.</p>
<p>My issue wasn’t my course load he issue is the extra money and if the times would even work out.</p>