Do I need to take all the prerequisite before applying to medical school?

[flowersun2005]

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Hi, I am applying to medical schools this year but have not taken general physics in the US. I have a B.S. from a foreign country but one year graduate-level Physics and Math from one of the major universities on the east coast of the US and I was a Teaching Assistant for General Physics for two semesters while I was in that university. When I started premed studies, my premed advisor told me that I did not need to take Physics given my background. But today when I talked to another advisor, she seemed to be concerned about my not having taken General Physics in the US even though I had all this physics background. Does anyone know how negative an impact it will make on my application? Can I apply and be admitted without taking general physics or will medical schools not even look at my application? I appreciate your opinions. Thanks SNDers!

 

[jram2323]

You can take physics during your application cycle but you cannot be admitted without completing physics.

Perhaps you can get credit awarded to you by your current institution for your physics abroad and then consult med schools on a case by case basis to see if they will accept it?

 

[Euxox]

you cannot be admitted without completing physics.

Yes you can, and it happens all the time. But you can't matriculate without completing physics.

 

[jram2323]

Yes you can, and it happens all the time. But you can't matriculate without completing physics.

^^this ismitted

 

[QuantumJ]

Yes you can.

 

[Catalystik]

Hi, I am applying to medical schools this year but have not taken general physics in the US. I have a B.S. from a foreign country but one year graduate-level Physics and Math from one of the major universities on the east coast of the US and I was a Teaching Assistant for General Physics for two semesters while I was in that university. When I started premed studies, my premed advisor told me that I did not need to take Physics given my background. But today when I talked to another advisor, she seemed to be concerned about my not having taken General Physics in the US even though I had all this physics background. Does anyone know how negative an impact it will make on my application? Can I apply and be admitted without taking general physics or will medical schools not even look at my application? I appreciate your opinions. Thanks SNDers!

You can get accepted to med school without Physics I credit when expertise has been demonstrated in other ways (even though a school's website says differently). See this applicant's story: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...onal-student-with-a-foreign-education.584858/