Please Please Help Me FAST! I want to become a doctor, but don't know how to do that.

Pre-Med & Medical School High School Student Topics
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<p>Because NORTH Africa (which includes Egypt) is considered Caucasion/White on one of my applications. </p>

<p>To OP, your stats are not necessarily stellar, but that does not mean that med school will be an impossible option for you. It will just be a lot harder. However, I do believe that if someone is determined enough, then they can achieve anything. If you stay motivated in your desire to study medicine and then channel that motivation through your actions (which is most important), you will succeed, no doubt. </p>

<p>PS Another poster here said that most people on CC got to slack high schools. I disagree. A lot of people on CC are in fact high-ranked 4.0+ students at very competitive high schools.</p>

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The undergrad school you go to won't matter that much, but your science courses should be taken at a four year college (not community college) AND AP scores do NOT satisfy the core requirments for medical school admission. You must take the actual college courses.

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<p>Really? I wasn't aware of this.</p>

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<p>Medical schools vary in their acceptance of AP credit. The problem is that you will need to apply to a very broad spectrum of schools and you will have to meet the MOST restrictive set of requirements. Thus, so far as a student is concerned, medical schools do not accept AP credit and you must take the actual college courses.</p>

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<p>Oh, that stinks. A lot.</p>

<p>But do medical schools require courses like US History? So if you took an AP US history course in high school and didn't in college, that would be allright?</p>

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<p>Of course you'd be fine. Medical schools require 1 year each of:</p>

<p>General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry (no AP anyway)
English
Math*
Physics
Biology
Spanish (California resident)</p>

<p>(*Again, many schools do not require math, but you will want to apply to so many that you must meet the most restrictive set of requirements.)</p>

<p>One more note: it is always okay to skip over the exact course and replace it with a higher-level one. For example, it is okay to skip general chemistry using AP credit so long as you take physical chemistry instead. This is usually stupid, but it is an option. Biology is the place to do it.</p>

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<p>Why would that be stupid? (I'm not being sarcastic or anything, just naive.)</p>

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<p>Because the higher-level class usually has less relevance and is harder.</p>

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<p>bdm, do most of the CA schools require spanish? i know UCLA does</p>

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<p>to bluedevilmike:</p>

<p>so you're saying that it makes sense to get out of intro to bio using AP credits?</p>

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<p>Not enough that I would actively recommend it, but enough that I don't actively discourage it, either. It's especially useful for biology majors, if it can get you out of some plant and evolution nonsense.</p>

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<p>Ok, watch the movie called gifted hands!!! Its so encouraging and you will love it, especially if you’re going into medical :)</p>