English Major Contemplating PostBac Programs

[mikeymedical]

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I'm posting this thread in hopes that I'll be able to get some current help.

Right now, I'm an upper-sophomore English major at a CUNY school. I went into college thinking I'd give English up and be strictly pre-med, but I found myself totally disengaged and disconnected from professors in my science/math classes. The pre-med office, if you can call it that, at my school might as well not exist and programs here are taken up by the same students doubling up on programs that they're basically inaccessible for someone who is a non-science major even if they're taking all the pre-med prerequisites. In short, I hate my current college for science-related ANYTHING even though its reputation is the opposite.

However, being a doctor remains in my head. I think about it all the time and I've come to the decision that once I finish my English degree here, the option of doing a post-bacc program is a valid one.

From my research, Goucher and Bryn Mawr seem to be the big 2. However, I know that completing too many pre-reqs is frowned upon, not just at those two, but at any of the "career-changer" post-baccs. So far I've done the Gen. Chem sequence and pre-calc&calc with less than amazing grades [Chem I = B, Chem II = B-, Chem Lab = A, Pre-Calc = B, Calc = C 🙁 ], but I think I can pull a 3.7 (maybe/probably higher) comfortably for cumulative uGPA. I'm about to start a volunteer program with Mt. Sinai and am looking into scholars programs in public service.

I guess the question is: Is it even worth thinking about or have I blown my chances of getting accepted to a good formal post-bacc program?

 

[longhaul3]

You haven't blown your chances, but you will if you take many more science classes, or at least many more of the remaining pre-med courses. I know you said you don't like your school's science programs, but since you're a sophomore and you still have 5 semesters left, I would really strongly recommend trying to finish the pre-med classes while you're in college. It will make your path so much more straightforward, you won't be paying extra for the classes (postbacs are expensive), and you don't have to worry about admission (it's hard to get into them).