<p>I am currently a SOPHOMORE at nyu, majoring in Math. I would appreciate if you can take time to read this.</p>
<p>At the end of freshman year, I got interested in the Pre-Dental program and decided to go that way (which is really late). And, by underestimating biology, I ended up withdrawing from Biology course after 2nd midterm... But, I have still managed to get 4.0 for General Chemistry in sophomore year. I was thinking of taking Biology in junior year (because I thought it was really challenging), and Organic Chemistry and Physics in senior year. </p>
<p>I don't know which combination is better Biology/O-Chem at the same time or O-Chem/Physics at the same time or taking one at a time (b/c I'm willing to attend 1 additional year at college). Is physics going to be hard for math major? I have no idea of how challenging it will be. I have taken AP Physics B and C and got 4 for both, and I'm getting almost 3.7 for my math major courses. But, still I heard it is really damn hard...</p>
<p>I'm really hard-working and take most of my time studying rather than enjoying my life. Please give me advice what I should do for next few years...</p>
<p>Sure, you can still go for it. Dental and medicine are different, however, so if you’re wanting to do dental, you’re really not in the right place to ask this. For medicine, the average person to matriculate (be accepted) has a 3.66 GPA and scores in the top 15% of all test takers on the MCAT. I don’t know what you should expect with dentistry, however, although I would guess the numbers might be slightly lower but not by much.</p>
<p>You sound frustrated. You should talk to advisor and current pre-meds at your school. They are more familiar with specifics of your school. At D’s UG, first Bio was weed out killer and Gen Chem was really easy. However, it is not always the case. Taking Physics and Orgo in senior year is very late especially if you consider taking MCAT in Junior year. All pre-meds are working hard. However, they are also very involved with EC’s, both medically related and others, most of them have minors and travel abroad.</p>
<p>The DAT (from what I’ve gleaned from convos with D1’s BF who teaches Kaplan prep for the DAT) is a great deal different from the MCAT. Lots of visual/spatial reasoning–which really can’t be taught. Math sections allow the use of a calculator (which the MCAT doesn’t). No OChem questions at all. Verbal sections similar to MCAT.</p>
<p>Be aware that many dental programs require microbiology as well as the usual bio, chem, OChem, physics. Be sure to check the requirements for the schools you’re interested in.</p>
<p>Physics isn’t going to be a killer for a math student, esp if you’ve AP Phys B & C. The labs will take time as will the lab reports, but the material won’t be difficult to master. </p>
<p>OChem will be challenging (lots of memorization) and time consuming.</p>