<p>Is it possible to go directly from high school to med school? I'm going to be graduating early from high school next year (3 yrs total) but I'll have 57 hours of college credit, with about a 4.0. If I get a good score on my SAT and MCAT, will I have a shot?</p>
<p>woah. I seriously doubt it. In fact, my brain is screaming NOOOOOOO</p>
<p>Hurrah for me...</p>
<p>You'd have to contact the medical school admissions officers since this is a rare case; it sounds like you should apply to a BA/MD program like NU or Brown's.</p>
<p>hey if doggie howser can do it...</p>
<p>nothing is impossible, but I doubt you could get admitted without some actual college expirence, and recomendations of professors.</p>
<p>summer: go to college....read the great works, play the piano, dance, study anthropology, go to parties, drink beer (non-alcoholic of course :) ), study descartes and voltaire, go to football games, debate politics, learn to write, do a work of theater, grow in a medium where others think differently than you and where some plan to be architects and others actors and still others accountants. life will come up upon you like a rushing train in a tunnel, and you'll get your fill of medicine before you can hear the train's whistle. live a little while you can; the future with all its limitations and diminishing options will come in due time.</p>
<p>Very well written post, Dr. Sedrish!</p>
<p>it's very poetic actually, I love it. Sound advice written in a beautiful manner. Ever thought of becoming a professional writer (if you aren't already)?</p>
<p>From what I've read, not all med schools require a bachelor's degree. However, it is likely VERY VERY VERY difficult to get into a med school without going to college first. You'd have to have a really good reason why you were qualified.</p>
<p>Well said, Doc.</p>
<p>I know two kids in Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and two at Royal College in Dublin who got in directly from high school. I know a girl who got into medical school in Belfast (don't know the name) after a year at Tufts. It can be done.</p>
<p>Well it's been established it CAN be done, but that doesn't mean it should be</p>
<p>In other countries you do go straight from high school to medical school, but it is seldom done in the US</p>
<p>Florus, do you know the statistics of these students?</p>
<p>well, often times internatioanls have a MUCH more narrow study than USers. So it's much easier/common to jump over that obstacle, but here in the US, it's like going from high school b-ball to the nba, it's only for a few REALLY talented guys out there</p>
<p>You have a good point, celebrian25, lol. I think I'll stop my inquiry after your post. I'm definitely not the "Lebron James" in high school academics.</p>
<p>Mediterranean, I don't know exactly. None of them were top 5% or anything. I would think 3.8 and 1300-1450 SAT I and low 700 or high 600 SAT IIs. None of them was brilliant. Only one was in my year. He was maybe top 10% and ACT 30 or 31. I think he did SAT II Chem (730- I know that one) and Math 2C (700). The others were a couple of years ahead of me. The girl who did a year at Tufts did well enough to get into Tufts, obviously. The one in my year (at Royal College) and one of boys at Trinity both said first year was really tough and a lot of people flunk out.</p>
<p>I wonder how common this is, I had never heard of it before. I'm thinking they had to have something unusual about their case though, I can bet my bottom dollar the typical CCer couldn't do that</p>
<p>Med school in Ireland is 6 years, so you'd only be saving 2 years in terms of time. Of course you don't have to do 4 years of undergraduate and find out you can't get in anywhere. It's a trade-off. None of these kids had anything unusual about their case. They just applied. In the case of Trinity College Dublin, I think they had to fly to New York for an interview. One of the guys at Trinity was actually a week at McGill before he heard he'd been accepted off a wait list. He flew home, repacked and was in Dublin in a week or something. </p>
<p>I think these kids heard about these schools through word of mouth - not through their schools (they are from three neighboring schools).</p>
<p>The actual name is Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. I just did a google on it. The other is just the Faculty of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Check them out.</p>