<p>I saw in another thread that your D, I believe, is pre-med at FSU. Is she involved with the honors pre-med program? or do you know anything about it? As my D's considering pharmacy and med ... trying to get her to narrow it down. <g> Anyway, we're learning more about FSU. She'll be visiting at one of the preview dates with a couple of friends, and I know she'll be looking at FSU for possible pre-med opportunity. Thanks!</g></p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>My older daughter is not "pre-med" per se. She is a biochemistry major and as such meets the requirements for the FSU and other allopathic (MD type) medical schools.</p>
<p>She's in FSU's Honors program (<a href="http://www.fsu.edu/%7Ehonors/)%5B/url%5D">http://www.fsu.edu/~honors/)</a>, but not the FSU Medical Honors Program (<a href="http://honors.fsu.edu/medical_legal.html%5B/url%5D">http://honors.fsu.edu/medical_legal.html</a>) which is also offered through Honors. She was not sure she wanted to attend the FSU Med School when she was a freshman so did not apply for the med honors program. Now FSU Med is her first choice (oh well.. ;))</p>
<p>In my opinion FSU is as good and probably better for undergraduate studies that can prepare a student for medical school as any school in Florida. One reason is the ability of FSU undergrads to learn to conduct meaningful research especially in chemistry and biochemistry. </p>
<p>My older daughter earned a fellowship in her area of biochemistry and was allowed to travel with that award to present her findings, which will be published. She was one of a handful of undergrads at the meeting and consequently received a lot of attention and offers for further research opportunities.</p>
<p>This fairly unique set of credentials has resulted in some very fine med schools opening up to her.</p>
<p>FSU also facilitates and records volunteer work done outside the university by students. Such outside involvement is important to being a well-rounded med candidate.</p>
<p>Parent2noles, </p>
<p>Thanks for the info! I appreciate it. We're researching so many different areas right now and going back and forth between different programs at different schools. My D's very strong in math and science ... so we're looking at everything from pharmacy and medicine to a variety of engineering options. I'll feel so much better when she has a better handle on which way she thinks she wants to go. But ... at least she's talking, and thinking, and arguing, and banging her head against the kitchen table ... LOL. I keep telling her, it could be worse ... you could want to do all these things and not have the grades or ability to do them ... consider yourself lucky you have SO MANY options. </p>
<p>Thanks again!
zebes</p>