<p>how would a BN look on a med school app</p>
<p>A what? .</p>
<p>bachelors in nursing</p>
<p>Post #19 here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4206151%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4206151</a></p>
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all majors except health science are admitted at roughly the same rate
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<p>Health sciences, such as nursing or pharmacy, do considerably poorly relative to everybody else.</p>
<p>thats so weird, youd think theyd be higher.</p>
<p>true, but medical schools basically avoid intuition and any resemblence to logic like the plague. so basically, whenever you have a question about how medical schools will view something, you should just think the opposite of what you first thought, and this will always work.</p>
<p>Well, the idea makes sense to me: medicine is an academic exercise, and they're seeking students who have studied an academic rather than a vocational discipline.</p>
<p>I can see both sides of the argument. However, I tend to agree with BDM on this one. There is a large nursing program at my school, and they take all of their science courses separately. The science courses in the nursing school are less challenging than the regular academic classes that premeds take. I'm assuming med schools take note of that...</p>
<p>"and they're seeking students who have studied an academic rather than a vocational discipline."
Is there a reason? Being vocational also means having more hands on and practical skills, which I don't think as deleterious to medical school (especially when the social part of being a doctor is as important as the scientific part)</p>
<p>"The science courses in the nursing school are less challenging than the regular academic classes that premeds take. I'm assuming med schools take note of that..."
Med school clearly states (at least in Texas) that health majors courses of biology, chemistry, organic chemistry etc... don't count for the prerequisites. So premed nurses will apply to medical school taking the science courses of other premeds.</p>
<p>Medical students need hands-on, sure, but that's what their medical training is (theoretically) for. Their undergraduate years are for academic pursuits.</p>
<p>Which doctors also need.</p>
<p>"Their undergraduate years are for academic pursuits." Indeed, but since the only requisite classes are bio, chem, orgo, physic, english, students with different majors will have extremely disparate backgrounds for medical school. They will basically build strong work ethics for the most part, but that's basically what I think could be universal among premeds (including nursing majors). In no way will a music major prepare scientific thinking skills more than a nursing major, so why does the nursing major gets a disadvantage?</p>
<p>Besides, the scientific skills common to all premeds accepted are ONLY the basic sciences required (bio, chem,...). Most of the science of medecine is learnt at medical school, so the academic training a doctor has is not acquired as an undergrad.</p>
<p>Nursing shortage. We need nurses. Biggest concern that adcoms have is how to improve the healthcare system. Thus, they're not going to take a potential nurse out of the system when there are plenty of premeds to use as doctors.</p>
<p>The question isn't scientific thinking. The question is academic thinking.</p>
<p>And of course admissions committees do accept SOME nurses. But if it became known that nursing school was a great way to be a premed? This kind of large scale "feeder" program would seriously cost society's nursing supply.</p>