<p>What are some top schools in California for majoring in Pre-Medical. </p>
<p>There’s no such thing as a pre-med major</p>
<p>I was going to say the same thing EarlyBird. LMAO</p>
<p>^Bouncing off the EarlyBird, when you go to college you choose a major, then you might be on a pre-med track. So you can take all of the prerequisites for pre-med while majoring in philosophy or art history or sociology or chemistry or pretty much anything.</p>
<p>You can literally go to pretty much any college in California, take pre-med classes, and go to medical school afterwards.</p>
<p>This forum section badly needs a pre-med sticky.</p>
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What I wish it had was a way to track the outcomes of people that have “decided” they are going to major in pre-med. If they have given that little work to finding out how one becomes a doctor before making “decisions” I’d bet that only 1 in 20 ever ends up in med school. </p>
<p>^^@mikemac, not everyone grows up knowing what it takes to become a doctor. if you had no role models, if maybe you never had a regular doctor, if no one in your family was a doctor, if you’re an eldest child or first child to consider college, etc., you might need to ask a question in a way that points out that you haven’t had those experiences. These kids exist. I teach them every single day. Please don’t drive them away.</p>
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Agree 100%. But lets do a little thought experiment. Who is more likely to end up going thru all the hoops that it takes to become a practicing doctor, bless them all. A kid that says "gee, medicine may be a great career for me. I’m going to spend 30 minutes searching on the web to find out how one becomes a doctor? Or a kid that says “gee, medicine may be a great career for me. That’s it, I’m going to major in pre-med!! Let me ask people the best schools for that pre-med major”</p>
<p>I’m going to contend that all people posting on this forum understand the existence of the internet & how to use it. So I’m not buying the experience & environment argument. Methinks that the kids that have the potential to make it down the long med-school road are the ones that have more of what my friends in cognitive science like to call “executive function”. Leaping before you look is not the mark of one with a great deal of that function. My 2 cents, anyway.</p>
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It’s actually better than that. You know how many freshman and sophomore in college say they are pre-med? LMAO</p>
<p>Guys, there’s a thing called language. Young people try to shorten up their word usage; they use shorthand for concepts that would require more words than they care to utter. (Have you guys ever read the comic strip Zits? It’s great on teenage language.) For many of my students who know better, pre-med major is just shorthand for all the majors one can have from which one can apply to med school if one has taken the right courses and earned the highest grades, or sometimes it’s shorthand for just “biology.” When I was a chemistry major, I would’ve given my eye teeth for one word that said “chemistry but not applying to med school” so that I wasn’t always having to explain that I couldn’t give two twisters about medical school or all those pre-med kids.</p>
<p>Or I could just have said to your responses, “whatever.”</p>
<p>@mikemac, I see where you’re coming from. Thanks for your polite response. We’ll just have to disagree. </p>
<p>OP, do your homework. What do you want to major in? Plan on majoring in any one of your top three interests. If necessary, take additional courses (outside your major) to satisfy the requirements of the med schools. Google the requirements. Then look for CA schools that are strong in the majors you are interested in by taking a look at the rankings (usually these will be for graduate programs, so you’ll have to make sure the undergraduates get the same faculty and office hours as the grad students). Try to find CA programs from the rankings that match your SATs and GPA. If there are no schools in the rankings that you have the grades for, or that your family can afford, there are hundreds more CA colleges and universities that can prepare you for med school. It isn’t where you go but what you do there. Med schools care primarily about GPA, MCAT, letters of rec, and research experience/internships–not alma mater. Tell us more about yourself, and maybe we can help.</p>
<p>@jkeil911,
or maybe its a way that some people like to say “pre-med” so to impress their friends, relatives, etc who don’t know any better… or in my day, guys would say that to impress girls to get a date, etc. yep, it worked.</p>
<p>I know about those Toms River girls. I don’t recall their being that easy 
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