<p>My son will be a sophomore and was accepted into Ross BBA program starting Fall 2012. He wants to keep his options open, as he has an interest in health care administration and would also like to complete his pre-med requirements.</p>
<p>His concern is the amount of volunteer work that medical schools seem to want to see on your resume, as he is working to pay for part of his tuition, etc.</p>
<p>Have any of you been down this path? Is the volunteer component an unwritten requirement to get into med school?</p>
<p>i personally am not doing pre-med & ross, but I know someone who is. It’s definitely possible if your son is a fairly strong student. i believe the stat for dual degrees in ross is somewhere around 1/3 of ross students pursue a dual degree in another college (mostly lsa). granted, most of those dual degrees are some sort of humanities or social science (e.g. econ), but i’m certain there are a fair amount of pre-meds as well. </p>
<p>btw, from what i’ve heard, patient care experience is significantly more attractive to medical schools than general volunteer work.</p>
<p>You have to be pretty bright and hard working just to get into Ross as it is so I’m sure your son should be ok. </p>
<p>Also since he’s in Ross, he should have a much easier time getting internships. So instead of the volunteer work, maybe he could get internships in the summer as a replacement? That way working wouldn’t interfere with schoolwork. I’m not really familiar with the medical school application process, so I don’t know if paid work holds the same value as volunteer work.</p>
<p>If by pre-med you mean a double major through LSA then yes it’s very possible, only 2 18 Credit Hour semesters are required I think. It may be more for a hard-science though. I don’t know that business degree would buy you in the Medical world though.</p>
<p>Like nubs said, what most premeds accomplish through volunteer work is clinical experience. I can’t really think of a better way to get clinical experience besides actually working in a hospital or shadowing a few doctors, so it’s a bit of a time commitment either way. But volunteering at the UM hospitals isn’t too bad; they only ask for 2-4 hours a week, and you’re not actually allowed to exceed 4 anyway.</p>
<p>There is no reason to double major. Pre-med is only a set of course requirements for applying to medical schools. Here is the complete list for U-M medical school:</p>
<p>"The following are the premedical coursework requirements for matriculation into the University of Michigan Medical School. Grades below “C” will not be accepted in any of the following required courses:</p>
<p>2 semesters of Inorganic Chemistry including at least 1 lab section
2 semesters of Organic (General) Chemistry including at least 1 lab section
1 semester of Biochemistry
2 semesters of Biology including at least 1 lab section<br>
2 semesters of Physics including at least 1 lab section
2 semesters of coursework that includes intensive writing
6 semesters of Non-Science Courses"</p>
<p>Should be quite do-able with your BBA program.</p>
<p>Besides, Economics or Finance is one of the majors preferred by UMMS:</p>
<p>"In addition to appropriate science preparation, the University of Michigan Medical School encourages students contemplating a career in the medical profession to select from among the following courses during their undergraduate years.</p>
<p>Anthropology
Ethics Economics or Finance
Sociology
…"</p>
<p>Biology and Biomedical 47.1%
Chemistry/Biochemistry 18.8%
Behavior & Social Science 11.8%
Engineering 7.1%
History & Language 3.5%
Other 2.9%
Health Science 2.4%
Government & Political Science 2.4%
Business/Economics 1.8%
Physics 1.8%
Foreign Language 0.6%</p>
<p>still hard to determine any favoritism for a particular major, since you don’t know the denominator of the applicants admitted within each category.</p>
<p>Based on that class profile, biology is the dominating major but that’s simply because most premeds are biology majors. As for business on the other hand, who knows. Either 2 out of every 10 business applicants get accepted or 8/10. It’s hard to tell.</p>