Loyola New Orleans offers a variety of subjects like religion, philosophy, psychology, political science, stat, and the required science courses for a well rounded education…but I feel that those classes would be useless? I don’t know though…what are your opinions about this? Would LSU be a better option for me for med school?
Please see my answer to your Tulane versus LSU question. It does not matter what you major in for medical school and those “useless” classes will help you be a better physician. Pre medical education is the same everywhere. All schools offer the basic science classes needed to prepare you for the MCAT. You want to choose a school where you are likely to do well and incur the least amount of debt. Remember, high overall GPA, high science GPA, high MCAT and a medically related EC. Other than that, enjoy ceramics, philosophy, religion and all the other topics that make a well educated mind. Good luck!
If you are not interested in classes and they are not required for your major, why do you think of taking them?
Take additional classes that you are interested in them. Many pre-meds around my D. and my D. herself had minor(s) and other major(s) in the area of their personal interest. Taking language, particularly Spanish to the level of some speaking proficiency is very useful, but only if you personally want to do that.Keep in mind that all art related classes are very time consuming though. I warned my D. about it, but she decided to take a class, that was her last college art class. But some other classes may not be so time consuming. For example, D. fully enjoyed her Music Minor and use it for her R&R.
In order to graduate schools will require students to complete x number of units. These units will come from GE, major and, in your case, premed reqs, or from some “other” courses which typically are taken to fill gaps in class schedules, or to maintain full time status and financial aid, or maybe just for interest. So the courses you reference are not useless because can serve a valid purpose. If you think these courses are useless because they are not actually preparing you for med school, I’d argue that almost all the material you will be exposed to as a college premed will be of little, if any, actual use to you in med school. My career and personal pathway is very, very far away from, but one of the most interesting courses I ever took was on comparative religions. Broaden your horizons. Maybe some background in one of these “useless” courses will help you in a social setting, or if you get that far, at a med school interview.
Just wanted to correct this. All schools offer the basic science classes needed to establish your knowledge base for the MCAT, but undergraduate science education is not (and should not be) geared towards the MCAT: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/16/mcat-test-prep-premed/