<p>i heard from a current student that the sciences aren't very strong at georgetown. is this true? how are the teachers and the facilities? i love the school, location, and campus, but as a prospective science major i was just a little worried. thanks for any info.</p>
<p>I currently work with Georgetown University's School of Medicine, and I have to say that this place is all right.</p>
<p>I'm not a student at the school, and I'm only with the Department of Biochemistry/Molecular Bio, so don't take my entire word for it.</p>
<p>The professors I am familiar with are extremely knowledgable, nice, and helpful. I don't have a great basis for comparison in terms of facilities, but unfortunately, things here arn't always state-of-the-art. That's not to say you can't get your work here done, though!</p>
<p>Of course, Georgetown is known more for international relations than science. Regardless, they still do valuable research here (especially at Lombardi Cancer Center), and some of it is ground-breaking. And there are research internship oppurtunities abound.</p>
<p>As a prospective science major myself, I don't think where your undergrad studies are is nearly as important as when you decide where to go for graduate studies. If you love everything else about Georgetown, then you should seriously consider attending. Then you can put more thought into where you'll head for the next step of your college career. Even the graduate fellows and post-docs working in the same lab as I do are passionate about what they do at this school.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>another question-- for premed, would it be better to be a chem or biochem major in the college or a human science major in the school of nursing and health studies?</p>
<p>It's better to major in whatever you are interested in. That way, you'll actually get good grades in your classes. There is no preference for major when applying to med school.
The Human Science major is a pretty cool major if that's what you're interested in. It's basically a bio major that focuses on humans, health, and disease. You'll basically be taking classes similar to med school classes, such as Human Bio(which is an anatomy and physiology class), Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Immunology, Genetics of Health and Disease, Human Growth and Development, Microbiology, Biotechnology, etc. It's a pretty cool, unique major if that's what you want. NHS is also part of the Medical Center, so some of our classes take place in the medical campus, and the NHS Discovery Center, which is where the lab portions of NHS science classes take place, is in the medical school.</p>
<p>bump bump</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>um, it depends on what you're interested in. but i heard that chemistry was better. i'm not sure...</p>
<p>There are very few chemistry majors, most people are biochem. I would worry less about what major will look better for med school applications and more about what you're interested in because you'll like it and probably do better. You can look at the requirements of the different schools and see if you like one more than the other. People that are human science majors usually like it a lot because it focuses more on just what they're interested in. Chemistry can be so boring- i got bored with just gen chem, i know i wouldn't want to take 10 more chemistry classes.<br>
Just so you know, it's not that difficult to transfer between schools if you decide to switch later.</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>