<p>Re: [University</a> of Notre Dame | College of Science](<a href=“http://science.nd.edu/sample_curriculum/pre_medical_sample_curr.html]University”>http://science.nd.edu/sample_curriculum/pre_medical_sample_curr.html)</p>
<p>Looks like it is for someone singularly focused on medical or other professional school and does not want to have to be constrained by major requirements for a “normal” major. But you have to wonder what it looks like for someone who does not get into any medical or other professional schools – a resume with that degree and no medical or other professional school degree basically says “I was a failed pre-med/dental/etc. student”.</p>
<p>* But you have to wonder what it looks like for someone who does not get into any medical or other professional schools – a resume with that degree and no medical or other professional school degree basically says “I was a failed pre-med/dental/etc. student”.*</p>
<p>LOL…right…that’s why that major seems a bit risky without some kind of qualifying process during soph year…something along the lines of how BSN students and business students often have to qualify to move on to upper division classes. </p>
<p>Can’t imagine putting BS Pre-med on a resume while applying for other jobs. It’s bound to raise some eyebrows.</p>
<p>The “pre-med major” at Notre Dame is actually a major in “Preprofessional Studies”, which one can taylor into a “premedical science sequence”. It looks like little more than a way to re-brand a conventional Physics, Bio, Chemistry or Math major. There does not appear to be anything specifically medical (like dissection labs or hospital internships) integrated into</p>
<p>If the ND major doesn’t have anything specific, and is just a way to rebrand the pre-health prereqs, then what is it requiring for upper division?</p>
<p>The sample schedule in the link lists 6 more advanced science elective courses which the student can tailor to his/her intended professional school preparation. See footnote 3 at the bottom of the link.</p>