Advice on majors

[Rk01]

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Hi all, I come here seeking some wise council. I posted about a year ago on if I should double major as I am a registered nurse that recently graduated from a ADN program in May. The group advised me not to do a bachelor's in bio and a online rn to bsn at the same time. I decided to not listen to this after my family pushed me into doing both. I am at a bit of a cross road now as I am seeing the RN to Bsn as a waste of time. The only reason I am in the courses are because they are an easy GPA boost. (I need to do a little gpa rebuilding as well) After saying all of that I mainly seek advice on if I should talk to my family and tell them I am dropping the rn to bsn courses or if I should just stick through them.

Thank you!

 

[AJS59]

So I need a little bit of background here...your goal is to go to medical school, yes? If so, why take the RN courses? There are countless other "GPA booster" courses you can take.

 

[Rk01]

So I need a little bit of background here...your goal is to go to medical school, yes? If so, why take the RN courses? There are countless other "GPA booster" courses you can take.

Thanks for the response. To clarify, yes medical school is my goal. Main reason I took the RN courses were to appease my family. Although now that I am in them I don't see much of a point other than stopping an argument.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Thanks for the response. To clarify, yes medical school is my goal. Main reason I took the RN courses were to appease my family. Although now that I am in them I don't see much of a point other than stopping an argument.

Is your family paying your bills? Why does it matter what they think?

If they are paying your bills, tell them that at least in my opinion (as someone who is on an admissions committee who will review your application), taking on extra work that won’t help you get into medical school is a bad idea. You have an INSANE amount of work to do in a short amount of time between shadowing, volunteering, research, and clinical experience on top of crushing the MCAT. You don’t have time to take on extra work just to appease your parents. They obviously don’t know how best to advise you anyway.

As far as GPA repair…… that’s not my area. I think Goro has a good post on it.

 

[Rk01]

Is your family paying your bills? Why does it matter what they think?

If they are paying your bills, tell them that at least in my opinion (as someone who is on an admissions committee who will review your application), taking on extra work that won’t help you get into medical school is a bad idea. You have an INSANE amount of work to do in a short amount of time between shadowing, volunteering, research, and clinical experience on top of crushing the MCAT. You don’t have time to take on extra work just to appease your parents. They obviously don’t know how best to advise you anyway.

As far as GPA repair…… that’s not my area. I think Goro has a good post on it.

They do pay most of the bills, at least my living expenses as I live at home still. I pay for a majority of my schooling but they do help. Thank you for the advice. I am just starting extra volunteering and slowly getting shadowing lined up as well so I haven't even added those onto my schedule yet. Research will be added next semester due to the university having a very formal process for research. I will be reviewing goros, thank you!

I was wondering how a admissions committee would view this. Thank you for giving that insight.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Often we will comment that while family is usually supportive, they can also interfere with your goals. We have an article for parents which I hope can help. I'll let others who are parents of prehealth applicants comment.

Parenting a Pre-Med | SDN

The Student Doctor Network provides free tools, resources, and advising services to help students become health professionals.

www.studentdoctor.net

 

[Hollow Knight]

They do pay most of the bills, at least my living expenses as I live at home still. I pay for a majority of my schooling but they do help. Thank you for the advice. I am just starting extra volunteering and slowly getting shadowing lined up as well so I haven't even added those onto my schedule yet. Research will be added next semester due to the university having a very formal process for research. I will be reviewing goros, thank you!

I was wondering how an admissions committee would view this. Thank you for giving that insight.

I was lucky in that I had really supportive parents. They said silly stuff to me (I love them, they just didn’t know any better), but they never were controlling or forced me to follow their bad advice.

This is a weird situation. I always was brought up under the assumption that if your parents are supporting you financially, they get to have an opinion. But in this case it seems your parents have an unhelpful opinion. Good luck with that conversation.

 

[Rk01]

Often we will comment that whole family is supportive, they can also interfere with your goals. We have an article for parents which I hope can help. I'll let others who are parents of prehealth applicants comment.

Parenting a Pre-Med | SDN

The Student Doctor Network provides free tools, resources, and advising services to help students become health professionals.

www.studentdoctor.net

Thank you, I will be sure to review this article.

 

[Goro]

Ahhh, parents. Doing their best to ruin your medical career out of live and ignorance

Forget aboutbthe online RN because Adcoms will wonder about your commitment to being a doctor.

Get your family SDN memberships so we can school them in the errors of their ways.

See my post on reinvention for premeds for advice on this subject.

 

[Rk01]

I was lucky in that I had really supportive parents. They said silly stuff to me (I love them, they just didn’t know any better), but they never were controlling or forced me to follow their bad advice.

This is a weird situation. I always was brought up under the assumption that if your parents are supporting you financially, they get to have an opinion. But in this case it seems your parents have an unhelpful opinion. Good luck with that conversation.

I follow a similar philosophy as well. I try to honor their wishes to a certain extent but this is one of those situations which I feel would be better for me to focus on pre med classes.

 

[Rk01]

Ahhh, parents. Doing their best to ruin your medical career out of live and ignorance

Forget aboutbthe online RN because Adcoms will wonder about your commitment to being a doctor.

Get your family SDN memberships so we can school them in the errors of their ways.

See my post on reinvention for premeds for advice on this subject.

Thank you for the post! I have glanced through your guide many times before and have found it extremely helpful! I must overlooked that section though. After having multiple people advising me to drop them I think I will be sending the emails now to change fully to my bio major.

Thank you!