<p>Is there an advantage doing pre-med at one over the other? profs? please be specific in answering.</p>
<p>I am not sure I understand the premise of your question. You have been admitted to RH or LC, not both. And while you can take courses at one or the other, within reason, including some in your intended major…you will be primarily at student at RH or LC, and I am not aware you can live at one and do your major at the other. </p>
<p>Pre-med is tough regardless of where you are. Fordham’s placement into medical schools is outstanding and I am not aware of any difference. But you should ask the department head’s at each campus on the Fordham website by a respectful email and see what they say.</p>
<p>Finally, pre-med is but one manner/method of being admitted to medical school. Many majors are considered and taken…I know of kids in liberal arts who got admitted to medical school (one at WashU-Stl.)</p>
<p>Or visit the campus and ask kids there.</p>
<p>It looks like many science majors are not offered at LC (I don’t think that biology,chemistry, physics majors can be at LC but you should double check for yourself), so I’m guessing that most pre-meds are at RH. </p>
<p>While you don’t need to be a science major, you should find out what (if any) science classes are available at LC. While people do go to the other campus for classes, I think there is a limit to how much going back and forth makes sense (particularly with a heavy pre-med workload).</p>
<p>It is true that students aiming for medical school can have any major (and I do know people who got in to med school with majors ranging from psychology to philosophy majors). Pre-med is not a major in college. However, every student working towards medical school, regardless of his or her major must complete a year of coursework in chemistry, biology, organic chem, physics & calculus. It sounds like Rose Hill has the science facilities (or at least the bulk of them), so I’d suggest studying at that campus if you are pre-med, regardless of your intended major.</p>
<p>RH should be the location of choice for pre-med students. Not only are there more related majors available, their facilities are probably bigger and nicer.</p>
<p>Perhaps there are more students on a pre med path at RH but they are at LC too! If you really feel that LC is a better fit for you, you can make it work.</p>
<p>And finally…lol…one should know that a HIGH percentage of kids who enter college with one intended major end up changing that major. Including in pre med, pre law and engineering. Its a long hard slog and one should be sanguine and sober when contemplating their commitments. I advise strongly to follow your heart…and take classes in undergraduate school you will never have the chance to take again. I did…and some of them…obscure courses in Russian Literature for example, paid off in spades! One never knows where one’s life will take them…being flexible and being able to adjust to changing circumstances and taking ones losses and failures as lessons to grow from are the real lessons in life. </p>
<p>I am not saying don’t become a doctor. I am saying keep your ideals handy…but be open to change. Some core curriculum course may open doors for you that you cannot imagine. If someone had told my kid (FCRH '11, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors) that she would be where she is today, 5 or 6 years ago, they would have been laughed at. Things happened at Fordham…bumps in the road, odd twists and turns, then golden opportunities and fabulous mentors…</p>
<p>Dreams are like clouds…they rarely stay the same shape. Life is not linear and one dimensional. Life is three dimensional and jagged…often stair stepped.</p>
<p>If you’re pre-med, consider SILC, the Science Integrated Learning Community. Pre-med is better on RH. SILC is all science majors, or those of us who think we will be science majors, and most of them are pre-med. There is a pre-med symposium, a one credit symposium that goes preps one for pre-med I guess. (They do one for pre-law too). First year is rough, most kids are taking Bio, Chem, Bio-lab, Chem-lab, math, and then two cores. Coming from having many friends who are pre-med and living on the floor, the first year does not always turn out as planned. Let me know if you have any other questions, I honestly am right up close and personal with the pre-med program, although not in it.</p>