<p>I'm planning to be a premed student and major in some sort of science next year. </p>
<p>I was wondering what are the premed advisors like at UNC? Are they helpful? Do they bring in speakers?</p>
<p>I also am aware that UNC-CH doesn't have an advising committee that will write a combined recommendation letter. Will this hurt my chances of getting into a med school? Do med schools favor the combined letter from an advising committee?</p>
<p>Join the pre-med association, the name of which escapes me at the moment. It is pretty helpful if you are interested in that. They do have a lot of speakers, including deans from UNC’s med school.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the advising committee, but I don’t think it would hurt you at all. A lot of students from UNC go on to top med schools without it. You might want to send eadad a private message or hope he posts in response.</p>
<p>In my son’s circle of close friends he and four others are now in their second year of med school and another who took a few years off has just been accepted for next year. The schools include Harvard, Hopkins, Baylor, UTSouthwestern, Duke and UNC. The person who is currently applying has been accepted to several schools and is still waiting for others before deciding where to attend. </p>
<p>The lack of an admissions committee just means that you will need to develop personal relationships with more than one science professor in order to get letters of recommendation. </p>
<p>One bit of advice, look early at the requirements for schools you have on your radar so that you have enough potential letter writers; for example Harvard requires 5 LORs…which is more than any other school as I recall.</p>
<p>I can’t comment on pre med advising because he didn’t take advantage of it and used only his Honors and Morehead advisors during the process.</p>
<p>Lastly, major in what you think you will find most interesting and have the most success in. Being a science major is NOT a med school requirement. Once in med school ALL you will be studying is science so if you can, use your undergrad years to broaden your knowledge base and do something you enjoy. My S majored in Linguistics and Religious Studies with a chem minor. It didn’t hurt him and in fact we think it actually helped him since he didn’t look like every other med school applicant.</p>
<p>If you haven’t been to CC Pre med forums you ought to visit them. There are plenty of threads that will support what I just said about majors.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/</a></p>
<p>Good luck</p>