Hate your premed advisor?

[Chankovsky]

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Anybody hate your premed advisor for giving you inaccurate information ahead of time, and then letting it cost you later on. I talked with one premed advisor from another school and felt sorry for their premeds because this guy didn't know jack.

 

[Chet Rogers]

I never talked w/ my advisor, besides freshmen orientation. I like finding out what I have to do myself, then I know I have accurate information.

 

[UCLAstudent]

My school doesn't even have a pre-med adviser... but it sounds like I'm not missing out on anything. 😉

 

[Mistress S]

I don't hate my pre-med advisor-she's a nice enough person, and some of her advice is good-but if I listened to everything she told me, I'd probably have some issues with her. For example, she tried to convince me that I should get a LOR from the only prof to ever give me a C (who I barely know anyway), and also that it wouldn't make much of a difference if I applied in June or after the MCAT in August. Obviously, I don't follow all of her advice-I just try to verify what I hear from her with other med students/applicants, and SDN is of course great for that too. The moral of the story is: don't rely on any one person for all of your info about med school, or anything else for that matter.

 

[mdforme]

My pre-med advisor knew very little and fed me some misinformation that cost me dearly. My advice- do the digging yourself, don't waste time with the advisor. However, I have heard of some undergrads with great pre-med advisors. So go to him/her once and feel it out.

 

[CANES2006]

I hated my pre-med advisor. She tried to convince me of not even bothering in applying to medical school because I didn't have a decent chance of getting in. This is despite the fact that I had a 3.99 GPA, a 30 MCAT, numerous extracurriculars and good LORs. She obviously didn't know jack because I got into every school that I applied to. I'm glad that I didn't listen to her because I am now 2.5 years away from having an MD behind my name. 😀

 

[medicRN669]

I hate my pre-med advisor also. He was the head of the premed committee and was to write my LOR's. Well I had all my science teachers send him letters for the composite letter and sent him the addresses of the schools for secondarys. After he recieved all info, he up and quit the school and told noone what he had, or hadnt done, with my letters. So it cost me 2-3 important months.

 

[ad_sharp]

Why is it that all pre-med advisors and committees suck? I think that most people on these committees are Ph Ds and they would rather see their students going to grad school than medical school. Mine never helped me. Read the internet, pick your own classes from the list. Unless you've got a good advisor, you'll be better off in the long run. Also, have you ever repeatedly tried to email your advisor to ask a question on your program and never received a simple yes or no reply? That's why I quit going to mine.

 

[TTSD]

Originally posted by ad_sharp
Why is it that all pre-med advisors and committees suck? I think that most people on these committees are Ph Ds and they would rather see their students going to grad school than medical school. Mine never helped me. Read the internet, pick your own classes from the list. Unless you've got a good advisor, you'll be better off in the long run. Also, have you ever repeatedly tried to email your advisor to ask a question on your program and never received a simple yes or no reply? That's why I quit going to mine.

My pre-med advisor does NOT have a PhD.. I don't even know WHAT degree she has.

She's a nice lady, but can't tell you more than what you can research on the internet or in books.

 

[pman95]

My pre-med advisor 'advised' me to pick another career because I would never get into medical school. Too bad I don't know how to contact him while I am on all my interviews for residency.

 

[DriNDT]

I have mixed feelings about my premed advisor.. I think he tries to be very helpful, but some of what he has told me has been inaccurate. He too assured me that my chances of getting into medical school were slim, and I have 4 acceptances thus far! One thing I wish he had been more honest about was the effect that waiving some core science courses with high school AP credits would have had on limiting the schools I could apply to. When it came time to designate schools on AMCAS, several of my favorite schools did not accept AP credits in lieu of science requirements, even with upper-level courses in the same discipline. So, I had to part with the idea of applying to some of the schools I was seriously interested in - very disappointing!! I never used my premed advisor to schedule courses either - I just figured all that out on my own. I think that's pretty common though - I didn't use my advisors in either of my major areas either.