<p>Ok. Well I've been wanting to do business and medicine for a while now. My dream is to go to Wharton at UPENN, get the 4 yr degree, while at the same time taking enough science courses to do well on the MCAT and go to Med School.</p>
<p>I'm asking all of you to tell me what this next stage of my academic life is like. I am an expert at the SAT/getting to college thing, but don't know much about this stage :). Fill me in!</p>
<p>Basically, I need to know what classes do I need to do well on the MCAT. I will not have much room (course schedule wise) if I attend Wharton, so I need to know what I essentially need. WIll taking a bare minimum hurt, or do you not need a huge science background for the MCATs?</p>
<p>And of course, any other getting into Med School info is nice!</p>
<p>thanks! (that link was quite a classic CC.com flame fest :))</p>
<p>Do you know of any other threads which talk about taking the bare minimum and succeeding? I'm wondering if the focus on business at Wharton will hurt me too much in terms of devouring the science knowledge to do well on the MCATs. </p>
<p>And I refuse to believe you need a gpa of >3.5 to get into a med school. If I have a 3.4 at WHARTON and go up against a 3.6 at Univ. of Florida I'll get the hand..</p>
<p>Now maybe I won't get into HMS. Fine. But I'll get in somewhere fine. Now this brings up another subject. I think I'll post it seperately.</p>
<p>Med schools dont really care about what college are your from. Your Wharton with a 3.4 won't get you in over a 3.6 from U Flori. . This is unless you have an activity that stands out and makes you a great choice, like super research, or some crazy volunteer experience. And the greater then 3.5 gpa really is a good thing to have. Not a requirement but its what you need to be competitive, since all the schools care about is numbers, not much else.</p>
<p>But the 3.4 won't keep me out of every school, right? Fine, I don't get in JHU, but there's plenty other great places out there I am assuming I would be able to get in with that.</p>
<p>It'll keep you out of a lot more schools then you think. It will probably get you into the misnamed "low-tier" med schools, like Temple, etc. It won't get you into the likes of UCONN, etc. Although it might, it all depends on your activites.</p>
<p>This year, a kid from Penn got dinged at every place he applied to (I think over 10 schools, and I don't think he applied to a single top 10 school) with a 3.2 and 2 publications. He double majored (one was in a hard science) and triple minored, all while playing a varsity sport.</p>