Pre med versus Pharmacy

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>OP,
In order to become anesthesiologist (one of the hardest specialties to get in) your D. needs:

  1. to go to UG and choose any major within her interests.<br>
  2. to complete all Med. School requirements while pusuing any combo of major(s)/minor(s). She needs to get high college GPA (including all minors), preferably 3.6+
  3. to take MCAT and get a decent score, better 32+
  4. All while in UG, she has to participate in various medically related EC’s (Research lab, shadowing MD’s, volunteering) and better yet have few outside of meidicine.
  5. to apply to Med. Schools that match her stats
  6. go to Med. School
  7. take boards and get very high scores
  8. go thru residency matching. If she has high boards, she will have a chance at anesthesiology. Sorry it took 8 steps to even mention this specialty. I am sure I missed something. </p>

<p>These are the steps that I am aware, my D. is starting at Med. School in few weeks, so I only know first 5 steps, the rest is my understanding, not much of any kind of knowledge. D. did not go to any Ivy or Elite UG. She went to state on full tuition Merit scholarships. She will be surrounded with people from Ivy’s at her Med. School though. As you can conclude, result is the same, the same Med. School.</p>