<p>Hey, I am a SCEA acceptee from Kentucky. I have some questions to those who are already attending Stanford about the premed program at Stanford. I understand there is no specific premed program like many other colleges but I don't kno whether Stanford is the best place to study for the medical track. How does Stanford compare with other schools in premed preparation? And uh how hard is it to get A's in classes?
Oh and ..man I m looking at this pdf file on the course requirements but I still dont get what I am required to take. Do I need to take some sort of writing and humanities courses even tho I am majoing in a science? And how many courses do people usually take for each quarter..or semester? And how much sleep do average Stanford students get (assuming they don't party every nite)? ahh and for the humanities courses you are required to take at the dorm or house or something...do you get a lot of homework there? is it hard to get an A in that course? uh i am not even sure if you kno what im talking about there...n e how...if you have some time, pleaz give me some answers...oh and merry christmas~!!</p>
<p>I'll try to answer some of these questions, I'm currently a freshman premed at Stanford. Unless you get into a good BS/MD program such as HPME at Northwestern, Stanford is a great place to go as a pre-med (about 75% of those who apply to med school get in, which is much higher than the national acceptance rate), though the competition is still very tough. Generally it is hard to get A's, especially in the science classes. The "general" premed requirements are two years of chemistry (inorganic and organic), a year of biology, physics, math and English, though it varies from school to school. Stanford's writing requirements are a year of IHUM (freshman humanities class) and two quarters of PWR (program in writing and rhetoric). All students need to take this. The in-house course you mentioned is probably SLE, Structured Liberal Education, which some students opt to take (it fulfills your requirements for IHUM and PWR, so you do'nt have to take them). However, you have to apply to this program, and most students are not in it. Stanford is on the quarter system (each quarter is about ten weeks), and most students take about three to five classes per quarter (about 14-20 units). As far as sleep goes, that varies. Generally, it seems most students are getting less sleep than they did in high school, because we tend to go to sleep a lot later. This isn't necesssarily due to not enough time to do homework. In fact, you will probably have more time to do work than you did in high school, but you'll also have more work. However, living in a dorm makes it very tempting to socialize with other dormmates (not necessarily partying, but just late night talking), and this is actually one of the best parts of college life. If you keep focused and isolate yourself, however, you can probably get work done more efficiently and sleep more than you did in high school. Students generally wake up later too, (the earliest classes usually start at 9). Anyway, bottom line is, Stanford is a great school, you'll have fun and work hard too.</p>
<p>WHAT!?!?!? The earliest classes start at 9?!?! Oh man im coming to Stanford :)</p>
<p>needhelp06: Aren't most universities like that?</p>
<p>yea um i kno a college where 8:30 is the earliest class time but most colleges are like that...man but i think Stanford is just awesome...i just hate english/humanities classes...</p>
<p>And i dont think you can get the credits for ap biology and ap chemistry...arg</p>
<p>hey jmstnfrd08, thx for your reply~! that really helped a lot.</p>
<p>binsbts, here's the full list of credits <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/pdf/AP_Chart_2004-05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/pdf/AP_Chart_2004-05.pdf</a></p>