Certain Track In A Major?

[corymartin2012]

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Hello there, I am looking strongly into attending a very large college in north texas, and looking at their Kinesiology major. They have many tracks (general, health and fitness, teacher cert., and allied health pre-professional). The "allied health pre professional has all the dental school pre-reqs built in, with room for upper level biology courses. I have heard some negative feedback on "allied heath" and I don't know why? Will that have an effect on my admissions? Or am I better off going with the "fitness/health" or "general" track, and overload my courses with the pre-reqs? One last question will two upper level sciences "anatomy I and II, override the needing of "Biological Principles I and II" for the pre-reqs. Thanks a lot!

 

[deleted393595]

Hello there, I am looking strongly into attending a very large college in north texas, and looking at their Kinesiology major. They have many tracks (general, health and fitness, teacher cert., and allied health pre-professional). The "allied health pre professional has all the dental school pre-reqs built in, with room for upper level biology courses. I have heard some negative feedback on "allied heath" and I don't know why? Will that have an effect on my admissions? Or am I better off going with the "fitness/health" or "general" track, and overload my courses with the pre-reqs? One last question will two upper level sciences "anatomy I and II, override the needing of "Biological Principles I and II" for the pre-reqs. Thanks a lot!

Allied health I think will get you qualified to be a med tech. You don't want to be a med tech your whole life, do you?

However, I do not think that Anatomy I and II do not qualify for the 1 year biology requirement, since that would be best fulfilled by Bio 101 and Bio 102.

But looking at the requirements page of the general track from the "very large college in north texas" 😉 I think that it should be sufficient to meet your basic requirements and you might have to take an extra chem and english class or more.

 

[corymartin2012]

If you'd like to see it, its UNT, and they have multiple tracks, in the "allied pre-professional program" the only difference in that and the general track, is the general requires to you take specific kinesiology electives and some physical education electives. The "allied pre-professional" has all built in pre-reqs for professional schools, not so much technical courses. It also has room for you to put more courses (higher sciences) with my dual credits knocking out multiples core classes?

 

[AdaMLS]

Allied health I think will get you qualified to be a med tech. You don't want to be a med tech your whole life, do you?

However, I do not think that Anatomy I and II do not qualify for the 1 year biology requirement, since that would be best fulfilled by Bio 101 and Bio 102.

But looking at the requirements page of the general track from the "very large college in north texas" 😉 I think that it should be sufficient to meet your basic requirements and you might have to take an extra chem and english class or more.

I think that by Allied Health they mean therapeutic studies: PT, OT and RT. Being a "med tech" is not generally something you can just do without the right training especially if you have a degree in kinesiology. In my state it is tightly regulated and one must pass a state board to be licensed to practice clinical laboratory science at the technologist or scientist level and most of the MLS's (as the are now called) receive a specific bachelors degree or post-bacc training with mandatory integrated clinical practica. I do take a bit of exception to your comment because I am proud of my chosen profession and where I'm from one can make a decent living from it.

 

[Morsetlis]

Laboratory Technicians are either AS (clinical/medical laboratory technician) or BS levels. The BS level (clinical/medical laboratory scientist) usually include upper-div courses in Hematology, Microbiology, Phlebotomy, Immunology, Urinalysis, etc and follow after Ochem. A Medical Technologist is a title used by a lab tech, either at the AS or BS level.

Please check that you have the recommended 1 year of Bio, Chem, Phys, Ochem and not anything else with a funny name like "Anatomy", "Physiology", or "Kinesiology". Those are nice to have, but you need your core.