<p>i want to know if UCLA has a good premed course. i'm not confident with what i have, so can anyone tell me what i need to improve on? i'm a senior right now btw.</p>
<p>i took 5 ap/honor course my 10 and 11th grade and i'm taking 5 ap/hon my senior year. i have gotton 2 B's in freshmen year and 2 B's in sophomore year and all A in junior.</p>
<p>my sat I :1980
Sat II math II 750
sat II chem 710
SAT II chinese 800</p>
<p>GPA around 4.3 weighted</p>
<p>bout 300 community service hours
volunteer at American red cross (event coordination)
co-founder of a club. and other positions</p>
<p>i'm scared that i'm only taking 5 classes my senior year. but they are all honors/ap
ap physics, ap spanish, apcalc bc, hon orchestra, ap lit </p>
<p>please make some comment about my situation. thank you all. oh and by the way, my school's API is 838, im sure that matters too</p>
<p>UCLA doesn’t have a premed course. Premed means you intend to go to medical school and will take all the courses required for medical school admission.</p>
<p>Your SAT is lower than the average. Five classes can be OK.</p>
<p>i was also thinking about majoring in biochem or chem at first, but i don’t understand what’s required to get into medical school? do i have to enroll in premed first? the info i tried to look for online confuses me so can anyone explain the path to med school?</p>
<p>You don’t enroll for premed or anything like that. Premed is a term to describe anybody who takes the required classes for medical school. Each medical school has its own requirements, but generally, you will need the following:</p>
<p>1 year of biology with lab
1 year of general chemistry with lab
1 year of organic chemistry with lab
1 year of physics with lab
1 year of mathematics
1 year of college english
most medical schools require biochemistry and/or biochemistry lab</p>
<p>schools also recommend course work in the humanities, social sciences, as well as additional science courses outside the major and core curriculum.</p>
<p>Again, being premed just means that you take the classes required for medical school. a lot of English majors are premed. In fact, some people say english majors do well on the standardized test for medical school admissions (MCAT) because they read better.</p>
<p>Chemistry and biochemistry are both fine majors for premed students. a lot of premeds are also MIMG majors (Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics).</p>
<p>so as you said before, UCLA doesn’t have a premed program. it means that it doesn’t have like a “package course” right? i should still be able to fulfill all the requirements to go on to med school right?</p>
<p>There is no premed program. I’m not sure what a package course is, but it sounds like being in a program that gives you everything you need to get into med school right? There isn’t anything like that at UCLA. You have all the independence (and worrying) of choosing all the classes you need. You can definitely get into med school, but you’ll have to do the planning and research yourself (but you can ask other people, counselors and the career center for help).</p>
<p>haha yeah that’s what i meant by “package” ahah. is premed program something like the “package” i said? and do you know any school that has a premed program. private or public</p>
<p>Oooh haha, sorry I don’t know any schools like that. Most schools that I know don’t have a premed program, but if you’re taking the classes required for medical school, you’re premed.</p>
<p>trust me. i did practically the same thing u did but my SAT were like…1700’s. Im still in. But it doens’t hurt to be like presidents of some clubs. basically ucla selection process is a hollistic process.</p>
<p>lemme give you some insight, since im going premed too. First worry about getting into college…SAT, EC, AP’s, Volunteer hours. Then if you go to UCLA there is a “premed workshop” where they literally teach you in 50 min like all the basics u need to do to eventually go to medical school. It was very well informed, take A LOT of notes. and research more from there on. u got a year, you’ll be fine ;)</p>
<p>IMO there’s three ways to look at this
FIRST= i know some people declare their in a field people are sure not a lot of people are going to go in as, like English or History…then when they’ve been accepted, they change their majors to like engineering or w/e. However i have heard rumors that the schools are trying to make it harder for you to switch “schools” and when i mean schools i dont mean colleges. i mean from like school (colleges of letters and science) to this other school (college of engineering…or henri samuli engineering school) …i hope u understand what that meant…</p>
<p>SECOND= you go in undeclared. rumors say that if you put a major, you are more likely to get picked because it shows you already know what you’re going to go in as. However, i have no idea.</p>
<p>THID= declaring your major. by declaring your major, you’re telling the colleges what you intend to go in as (well duh -__-) but once you’re in that major. some colleges give higher priority to sign up with classes and stuff, but not UCLA i think. The ones that get special priority is athletes and disabilities. furthermore, it makes it easier to switch majors in the same SCHOOL. and it proves to yourself, since u know u wanna go into premed. that UCLA accepted you to go in as a science major…cause u know…medical?</p>