<p>Anyone know how non-traditional Med School applicants are treated?</p>
<p>I am currently in my 1st year of Law School at an Ivy League school, and I absolutely hate it. I'm strongly considering leaving and attempting to apply to Med School. I would have to go back and retake the pre-med required courses.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have taken several of the required courses already, and received A's in all of them. This is just pure speculation, but based on previous standardized test performances I would imagine I'd do reasonably well on the MCAT.</p>
<p>My question is, if I go back and take the 6 or so courses required pre-med classes that I'm missing, do well in them, and do reasonably well on the MCAT, will I be a competitive applicant for Med school? I'm not trying to get into a Harvard or anything like that, would just like to attend my States Flagship medical school.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>If you have the medical extra curriculars to justify your interest in medicine your non-trad status will not hurt you.</p>
<p>I do not have any medical extra-curriculars. I majored in History and Economics and had no idea what I wanted to do, so I just said screw it I’ll go to law school. I kind of like law school, but being a lawyer would be absolutely miserable, I can’t imagine spending my days searching for missing commas or defending rapists.</p>
<p>That being said, I’ll have an additional 2 or so semesters with lots of time to volunteer, considering I won’t have a full course load, basically just the biology, o-chem, and physics courses (got a 5 on the hard AP Physics test like 5 or 6 years ago, but don’t remember any of it so I’d need to take it again).</p>
<p>Definitely need some clinical experience at the very least. I would recommend trying to put a few hours a week into volunteering for the duration of the academic year that you will be studying…</p>