Which school should I apply to if I want to do the pre-med track? CAS? CALS?
I mean the pre-med track is just classes that med schools require, like chemistry and biology. I don’t think you need to be in any specific college to do the pre-med track
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I agree with @lolog123 You can attend any school and still take the pre-req for pre-med. I know an engineer student who is pre-med. I just wouldn’t recommend doing that or applying to the hotel school because they have specific and set mandatory courses for their school that they need to take and it’s a lot of work to do pre-med reqs on top of that. I know several people in HumEc that are pre-meds, several CAS and CALS who are pre-med.
As someone who is in CAS, there are a lot of degree requirements. So in addition to pre-med you need to fulfill a language requirement and distribution requirements (like taking a history etc) that aren’t required for pre-med. If you don’t want to take as many requirements, I’d recommend applying to CALS because while you still have requirements, you don’t have as much. My friends in CAS are planning on internally transferring because of the language requirements, which is also an option if you get into a school and want to transfer because you realize it isn’t for you.
That being said, you can only major from what your school offers. I’m only a first-year pre-med in CAS but I plan on majoring in a humanities rather than science and CAS gives me more options to choose from. Also if you decide that pre-med isn’t for you, you have more options to choose from. I may be wrong but I think a lot of kids apply to CAS just for the heck of it, so the applicant pool might be slightly more competitive only because a lot more kids are applying to it (and those kids might not even want to go to cornell).