<p>Hi guys,
I want to go into medicine but majoring in math. Do you know what schools have great math programs but will prepare me well for med school as well?</p>
<p>Thanks all y'all CCers.</p>
<p>It’s hard to recommend schools with so little information. Obviously places like Harvard and Princeton have top math programs and could prepare you for medical school but so could many state schools. Williams and Swarthmore are two top LACs that have good math programs. What sort of stats do you have? Also, you need to keep in mind that medical school is very expensive. If your family cannot foot the bill for medical school you will need to careful about taking on debt for an undergrad degree and should be looking for schools where you are likely to earn merit aid.</p>
<p>I want to go into medicine but majoring in math. Do you know what schools have great math programs but will prepare me well for med school as well?</p>
<p>If med school is your goal, then that’s the focus. It’s fine to major in math, but getting the best GPA is the goal. If you go to a school with the “best math” program, but you’re not one of their strongest students, then you may emerge with a GPA that isn’t med-school material. </p>
<p>I think that those who want to go to med school should go to schools where their test scores put them well within the top 25% of the school.</p>
<p>We need to know more about you. What are your stats?</p>
<p>*Princeton Chance
SAT 2150 (590 math, 780 critical reading, 780 writing)
3.99 GPA
Lit 750, World History 710</p>
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english tutoring
literary research
WRote multiples poems, novels
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<p>Essays wrote about grandfather who ran for office, supplemantal on poverty</p>
<p>excellent recs
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Are these your stats? If you have a 590 in Math, I don’t think being a math major is right for you. </p>
<p>Your strengths seem to be elsewhere…major in something that works with those…maybe English, The Classics, History, etc.</p>
<p>Any school with a decent math major should be relatively easy to fit the pre-med requirements around.</p>
<p>However, if you can only score 590 on the relatively easy SAT math problems, you may find it a struggle to handle the more difficult math problems and proofs that you will encounter as a math major. A University of Oregon study indicated that students with SAT math below 600 were rarely successful as math or physics majors (note: no such threshold was observed for other majors).
[[1011.0663</a>] Nonlinear Psychometric Thresholds for Physics and Mathematics](<a href=“http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.0663][1011.0663”>[1011.0663] Nonlinear Psychometric Thresholds for Physics and Mathematics)</p>
<p>mom2colleges sorry that were my friends stats and chance thread.</p>
<p>MY STATS:
ALl my grades in math for high school have been As (but the math department at my school isnt that great) and I am currently taking AP calc in school and doing pretty well
800 math SAt 1,. 750 Math II, 36 ACT Math.</p>
<p>My problem is that right now I am great at math but I heard math becomes very difficult in college and I will not be able to get the best GPA.</p>
<p>My older son was a math major, but not pre-med. Yes, upper division math courses are very difficult. You may emerge with a very high GPA or not. </p>
<p>My younger son is a Chemical Engineering major who is pre-med. It was a risk because many eng’g students do not end up with high GPAs. He managed his course load well and got his A’s. He has been accepted to med school, so it worked out for him. In hindsight, I don’t know if it was worth the risk. He wanted a “back up plan” in case he decided against med school. </p>
<p>Unless your college requires you to pick your major now, why not wait and see. Start your fall frosh semester with a basic pre-med track of Bio I, Gen Chem I, a Calc class, and a lighter class that fulfills a GenEd req’t and see how each semester goes.</p>
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<p>Upper division college math courses tend to emphasize proofs (especially courses like real analysis, abstract algebra, and complex analysis). You may have seen some proofs in high school geometry, though upper division college math courses have more difficult ones. Honors lower division math courses may also have more proofs than the regular ones.</p>
<p>However, for those who “get” math, majoring in math can be a relatively light workload, since math courses mostly do not have labs that take up a lot of time.</p>