<p>My son will be entering a LAC this September with the hopes of applying to medical School in four years. In addition to the well known prerequisites ( ie...Organic Chem, General Chem, physics, general biology, and a year of math) it has been suggested that he should also take THREE additional courses: Statistics, Sociology, and Psychology! The reasons given is that these courses of study will be on the New MCAT commencing in 2015.
My question is how can one expect to fulfill all the college requirements, major requirements, the traditional prerequisites, and three additional courses to the curriculum . It seems rather ludicrous to take 3 courses for one section of the MCAT! Shouldn't there be a course which encompasses the basics of these three additional disciplines OR have the basic psychology, sociology, and statistics incorporated in other required courses?
Any thoughts or suggestions?</p>
<p>Wait, you forgot he’ll need biochem too.</p>
<p>So 4 new courses: psych, soc, stats, and biochem.</p>
<p>Re: psych and soc. Most schools have general education requirements. Both those courses can be used to fulfill GE social studies requirements at nearly every college.</p>
<p>Re: Stats. One semester of Calc 1 plus 1 semester of stats = 1 year of “college level” math required by med shcools.</p>
<p>So the only actual new required class is biochem. Without lab, I might add. </p>
<p>Hey, it will take careful planning, but it can be done. Kids take all sorts of double and triple majors and still manage to fulfill med school pre-reqs AND graduate on time. (And often without taking any summer classes.)</p>
<p>Pre meds are not the be-all end-all of college. Why should a college design a specialized course encompassing psych-soc-stats just to satistfy MCAT pre-reqs? That’s not what college is about.</p>
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<p>Hmmm…</p>
<p>BS section requires bio, Ochem, biochem (5 classes)
PS section requires gen chem, physics (4 classes)
HB requires psych, soc (2 classes)</p>
<p>Stats will be incorporated in all 4 subsections.</p>
<p>So only 2 courses are required for the new HB, not 3. And with the exception of verbal --which hard to classify in terms of course requirements–HB requires fewer classes than any of the other sections.</p>