Ideal Pre-Med Schedule

[apumic]

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I'm a little jealous of all these easy schedules! I was a chem major at a Jesuit university that had a really insanely extensive list of required courses (language reqs, english reqs, history reqs, religion reqs, social science reqs, etc). So for the first 2.3-3 years, I was taking 20 credits per semester.

So my schedule was definitely less than ideal!

I think most people were just mentioning the prereqs they're taking in a given semester. I also had a ton of gen ed coursework. Min. to graduate from my schools was 128 credit hours and I graduated with something like 150+ after 4 yrs.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

What other types of classes are you guys taking in freshman/sophmore years for science majors? I'm not so great at humanities style courses, and if I had to choose I'd take more science/math any day. Is this really not wise..?

Realistically humanities style classes are so wide. You've got to like at least 1 type, maybe philosophy or litt of a particular period.

But in the end taking more then 3 sciences/ maths in a semester is simply not wise. You'll kill yourself with labs and concepts which require a lot of thought processes.

 

[surftheiop]

I killed "general biology" freshman year.
I personally just don't think its smart to be taking 3 math heavy classes the first year honestly. We're pre-med not engineers, there's no rush lol.

Ugh don't remind me, freshman year was a nightmare as an engineer.

Is it really necessary to make us take vector calculus, differential equations, calculus based physics mechanics, Calc based E&M, Gen Chem I&II, Computer Science, some other random engineering courses in one year????

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Ugh don't remind me, freshman year was a nightmare as an engineer.

Is it really necessary to make us take vector calculus, differential equations, calculus based physics mechanics, Calc based E&M, Gen Chem I&II, Computer Science, some other random engineering courses in one year????

😡😡😡😡😡

Well that's what you should do. However if it were me I'd try my best to break up all of those things into different semesters. It might take me 5 years to graduate, but I'll be actually alive.

 

[surftheiop]

Well that's what you should do. However if it were me I'd try my best to break up all of those things into different semesters. It might take me 5 years to graduate, but I'll be actually alive.

Wise advice!

 

[SB720]

I had already finished an Economics major, so I didn't have any of the general education requirements to complete in order to earn a Chemistry BA when I returned to college.

This is the schedule I followed and it worked well for me:

Summer
Chemistry I + lab
Chemistry II + lab

Fall
Organic Chemistry I
Physics I
Biology I
Calculus II

Spring
Organic Chemistry II
Physics II
Biology II
Calculus III
(MCAT)

Summer
Genetics
Microbiology
Immunology
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Independent Research
Biochemistry
Physiology

 

[CapnCrunch]

I had already finished an Economics major, so I didn't have any of the general education requirements to complete in order to earn a Chemistry BA when I returned to college.

This is the schedule I followed and it worked well for me:

Summer
Chemistry I + lab
Chemistry II + lab

Fall
Organic Chemistry I
Physics I
Biology I
Calculus II

Spring
Organic Chemistry II
Physics II
Biology II
Calculus III
(MCAT)

Summer
Genetics
Microbiology
Immunology
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Independent Research
Biochemistry
Physiology

Intense schedule... Would usually work for someone as a post-bacc, def not freshman year.

You were able to take 3 courses during the summer as well? Wow.