<p>Can someone outline a typical class schedule for a freshman who wants to minor in pschology or english and fulfill pre-med requirements while majoring in biology at the same time?</p>
<p>--How long would it take for me to graduate with the above scheme?</p>
<p>Alternatively, what does an average pre-med student's freshman schedule looks like? </p>
<p>As a freshman, I will most likely take calc I or intro to calculus(?); Afterwards, would it be costructive to contine on and take calc II(?), multi, or other advanced math classes in terms of helping grasp future classes and having a strong record?</p>
<p>Typical schedule is going to vary slightly on your school, your ability level, your expected rate of adjusting to college life, and other factors that are dependent on your situation.</p>
<p>I tend to encourage students to take the first semester somewhat easy to adjust to college. No more than 15 hours, but course hours vary from school to school as well, so that may alter what exactly you take.</p>
<p>Here's a sample for my school.</p>
<p>Calc I - 5 hours
Gen Chem - 4 hours with lab
English composition I - 3 hours
General Ed Requirement (some sort of humanity course) - 3 hours</p>
<p>You may as a Bio major have some sort of seminar course requirement as an introduction to being a bio major, which could be from 1 to 3 hours. If 1 hour, then tack it on to the above schedule, if 3, then I'd say take it in place of the Gen Ed requirement.</p>
<p>Second semester would look like this:</p>
<p>Gen Chem II - 4 hours - with lab
Intro Biology - 4 hours - with lab
Required Pysch or English minor course - 3 hours
Other Gen Ed requirement - 3 hours
Any other random requirements/seminars - 1-3 hours (my college required a library research course)</p>
<p>again it's hard to determine exactly what yours will look like b/c you may have certain requirements that I can't guess to.</p>
<p>As for math, you will need a stats class - it's just good for being an educated individual. More advanced calc is only necessary if your school requires it. It's possible that your school will not have an algebra based physics course sequence, and you will thus have to take a calc based physics. The MCAT doesn't have calc based physics so algebra physics is enough there. If you don't want to take a higher calc class and aren't required to by your school, then there really isn't any reason to do so. Through my 3 semesters of med school thus far, there has been nothing that has needed any actual calc knowledge. And I really don't foresee any thing coming up in the future either.</p>
<p>Pre-med advisers are a great resource. If they are available at your school, I highly recommend that you meet with one to plan out your coursework, because your plan is quite possible (and awesome, IMO).</p>
<p>Major, minor, and general education requirements vary a great deal from school to school. While we can help you with general principles, it's very important that you talk to people who are specifically at your school in order to figure this sort of thing out.</p>
<p>i think its a good idea to take calc I and II because tehre are a good number of schools that require math. As a bio major with a minor in psych you can easily finish in four years.</p>
<p>pepz3, that would depend greatly on the requirements for those minors at your school, as they are not the same at every university. I also don't think that people at other universities can give a fair assessment of how difficult certain departmental courses are at your school. I think the best option is to talk to an advisor, faculty members in those departments, or peers who have taken some of the required classes.</p>