<p>Eh I’m a 1st gen. college student, first to even earn two AA’s. lol… I just hope I can get more scholarships loL!!!</p>
<p>And it probably would be A LOT different lol, you ARE lucky to have your parents paying for you. Appreciate that :)</p>
<p>Wow awesome, congrats on that!
And I definitely do appreciate it…</p>
<p>Thanks 
Now I’m wondering if working is poss. in medical school??? IDK, don’t want to bring my GPA down…</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve been wondering the same thing… I don’t even know how grades in med school works, actually. I know the med school at my undergrad school is really cool, all the classes are pass/no pass (not even fail, no pass lol), and if you fail an exam you just take it again and it’s no big deal. You only have an exam once every 10 weeks or something. Sounds pretty good to me lol.</p>
<p>o.O… if you go to a medical school like that, then work would definitely be probable!!!</p>
<p>For sure, especially since they end at noon almost every day.
I’ll apply, but I probably won’t get in. They don’t even give preference to their undergrads. Jerks. :P</p>
<p>LMAO. At noon, too? Sounds relaxed :P</p>
<p>My university doesn’t have a med school attached to it, not even a pre-med committee lol 
But they are doing research at least!!! Diabetes, supposedly.</p>
<p>Yeah even thought my school has a med school, its pre-med resources are not that great. It’s primarily an engineering school, and I have noticed that the pre-med classes are always put in the worst, oldest, dirtiest lecture halls while the engineers get the nice ones. Also our pre-med advisor (we only have one) is terrible, he gave me advice that could have ruined my chances of getting into medical school; luckily I knew not to trust him and e-mailed med school admissions’ departments directly and found out the truth. Never again will I trust him…I will only pretend to be his friend so he gives me a good rec lol.</p>
<p>LMAO. Right, b/c you have to pretend to listen so you get on their good side. lol I’ve had some counselors give me bad advice… and I had to ignore otherwise I would have still been at the college doing requirements lol… so instead of 2 years in n out, like 3 at least. Good thing I didn’t listen either!!!</p>
<p>There are some engineering students at my university (mechanical, ect). Though IDK if they get better classes or not.</p>
<p>I had always had amazing counselors throughout high school, so I was super trusting of the pre-med advisor thinking he would be the same…what a lie. At least my own advisor is amazing! She knows more about medical school than the pre-med advisor!
I think like 60% of my university is engineering students lol.</p>
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<p>Different med school have different grading schemes. Some use more or less traditional grading (High Honors/Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail); some use a Pass/Fail; some use their own unique systems.</p>
<p>Grading for the didactic (classroom) portion of med school might be pass/fail, but usually the clinical portion is graded. </p>
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<p>Not exactly true. While students often get a second chance to pass an unit, don’t think for minute that the fact you needed to retake an exam to pass isn’t been kept track of. Fail twice and you fail the unit and will be required to repeat a whole year of med school (at your own expense). Fail more than 1 unit–and you’ll be academically dismissed. When you go to apply for residency, the fact that you didn’t pass all your courses on the first try will be noted in your evaluations. This will hurt your chances for a competitive specialty.</p>
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<p>Nope. You will have both a midterm and final for each unit. Some courses may have another 1 or 2 exams in addition. Classes may also have graded quizzes, graded projects, graded papers, graded homework. It all depends on the professor teaching it.</p>
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<p>But lectures are just the beginning of stuff you’ll be expected to do. Your afternoons won’t be empty. You’ll have clinic duties, class meetings, small group project meetings, required shadowing, specialty interest group meetings, professional assocation meetings, guest lectureres and tons of reading to do…Your time is not your own. Not even during the first 2 years. If a prof says be here at 4 pm–you gotta be there, no matter what. Once you start clinical training–expect to be working 50-80 hours/week, plus at home prep work.</p>
<p>Oh I was only talking about my school’s medical school in particular, not all of them. I’m sure I’m exaggerating half the stuff I said, or the people who told me that stuff were exaggerating. And I’m sure even if all that stuff were true, it would still be crazy hard. It’s a pretty good med school, as far as I know.</p>