<p>I've been accepted to wake and i went to campus day and loved it! but i'm planning on being premed and during campus day i was told that 1100 people go in as premed and only 50 end up applying. so... judging by those statistics, i would guess that it is a pretty intense course load. I know that any person who wants to go to med school is going to have to do really well and work hard... but is wake going to be extra intense? also, is it possible to be a premed at wake and have a social life? any info from current students or opinions from other incoming freshman would be great! thanks!</p>
<p>No premed here, prelaw here. But, I hear the sciences are tuff at Wake. I think ginnyvere might be better equipped to answer the question. My guess for the premed drop in applcations after junior year is the potentially low GPA or just doing horribly on the MCAT. Last semester I knew a senior that apparently didn't do too hot on the MCAT and said she's spend the year with her family or traveling (can't remember) and then reapply the next year. Maybe this is one of the reasons... but I dunno.</p>
<p>I don't think that statistic can be accurate. 1100 declare premed? That's like the entire class.</p>
<p>Craigory's right, we've only got ~1100 in our class, and we weren't all pre-med when we came in (we had a bunch of pre-law and business people, too ;)) And Ndbisme's right in saying that I'm pre-med. The sciences are definitely hard, but they're doable. And, to put this in perspective, I'm typing this, and saying that it's possible, about seven hours after I got done with an organic chemistry final, so that's got to indicate something. But they are hard, and they (at least the freshman science classes) are probably among the largest classes here. That said, I've yet to have a class with over 40 people.</p>
<p>However, it's not harder here than it is elsewhere. I'd wager that at every college in America, the number of former pre-meds vastly outweighs the number of still-hanging-on pre-meds.</p>
<p>I think that a large part of the reason that so many people here drop pre-med is not that they can't do the work (although often, if people know that they aren't going to continue pre-med and wont ever need, for example, organic chemistry, they'll let their grade slide in that class and devote more time to other classes), but is instead that they find another area that they like better. That's whats so great about Wake. We've got a lot of divisionals that make us get experience in all the academic disciplines. Often, you'll hear people bemoaning the divisionals, but I think that they really do give us a really good liberal arts education.</p>
<p>Wake has a reputation of being "Work Forest," and people automatically assume that being a science major (or a non-science major who is still pre-med) is even harder still. That's not really true, necessarily. I think that I can safely say that we all, whatever major, do a ton of work, but I don't feel like I do significantly more work than my non-pre-med friends. It's just a different type of work. And I can definitely say that I don't do more work than pre-med friends at other schools.</p>
<p>Excuse me if this is slightly incoherent. It's late.</p>