Kinesiology Major as Premed

[123peter45]

Hey everyone, I'm new to SDN and wanted to know a few opinions

First, I am going into my second year of college. I started off as a Neuroscience major and thought that it would be really good for medical schools. As you'd expect it is a pretty strenuous major, even though it was just my first year. Needless to say, I didn't do very well. I'm sitting at a 2.5 gpa. I am retaking a few of those classes that I didn't do very well in for grade replacement, so that will help a bit.

However, I'm really not enjoying neuroscience. I thought that I would and I'm really not. I do think that I would enjoy being a Kinesiology major.

So my questions are.
1.) Is there still hope for my gpa to recover even after the ***t first year.
2.) Would it be a bad idea for me to switch majors, or should I just get over it and get through these next three years.

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[gyngyn]

If your major is the reason for this gpa, switch.
Though gpa is more important, you should know that vocational majors are viewed askance by some evaluators.

 

[Endoxifen]

Hey everyone, I'm new to SDN and wanted to know a few opinions

First, I am going into my second year of college. I started off as a Neuroscience major and thought that it would be really good for medical schools. As you'd expect it is a pretty strenuous major, even though it was just my first year. Needless to say, I didn't do very well. I'm sitting at a 2.5 gpa. I am retaking a few of those classes that I didn't do very well in for grade replacement, so that will help a bit.

However, I'm really not enjoying neuroscience. I thought that I would and I'm really not. I do think that I would enjoy being a Kinesiology major.

So my questions are.
1.) Is there still hope for my gpa to recover even after the ***t first year.
2.) Would it be a bad idea for me to switch majors, or should I just get over it and get through these next three years.

You need to figure out what you did wrong and work to fix that. It's your first year, so this is not uncommon, but things in college will only get more difficult and college has nothing on med school.

It's important to note that there is no grade replacement in the medical school application process, but if you failed a class, retaking will show that you fixed your mistake. With a 2.5, you can recover, but you've eaten all of your wiggle room for the rest of college. Buckle down and get 4.0s every semester from here on out.

Finally, if you're not enjoyin neuroscience, don't be that major. Med schools don't care about your major so long as you complete all of the prerequisites or acceptable upper level courses as substitutions.

Good luck!

 

[Toutie]

Hey everyone, I'm new to SDN and wanted to know a few opinions

First, I am going into my second year of college. I started off as a Neuroscience major and thought that it would be really good for medical schools. As you'd expect it is a pretty strenuous major, even though it was just my first year. Needless to say, I didn't do very well. I'm sitting at a 2.5 gpa. I am retaking a few of those classes that I didn't do very well in for grade replacement, so that will help a bit.

However, I'm really not enjoying neuroscience. I thought that I would and I'm really not. I do think that I would enjoy being a Kinesiology major.

So my questions are.
1.) Is there still hope for my gpa to recover even after the ***t first year.
2.) Would it be a bad idea for me to switch majors, or should I just get over it and get through these next three years.

No point in retaking any courses unless they are pre-med pre-reqs and you had lower than a C-. Your school may replace the grades, but they will not be replaced on your med school application. Both grades will count.

If you feel changing majors will help your GPA and you will enjoy it more, then by all means do it. You need to learn how to study and get mostly A's from here on out. Bad freshman years are not unusual and will not hurt as long as you can recover and get mostly A's in the future.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

grade replacement

There is no grade replacement.

Is neuroscience that hard?

Kinesiology seems to be more of a PrePT major.

Why not just major in psychology or biology?

 

[ChicagoBear]

You can be an Kinesiology/Exercise Science major and get into med school - I am living proof, as are several of my classmates. Yes, there are far more Pre-PT's than Pre-Meds in Kinesiology, but it is not a barrier. Now, that being said, to offset any potential discrimination by some reviewers, help rock the MCAT and strengthen your app, you need to take challenging electives such as biochemistry, genetics, cell biology etc. While my major was in Kinesiology, I had minors in biology and psychology and was one class short of a minor in chemistry, because I wanted to be well prepared.

 

[Master_of_Savage]

Hey everyone, I'm new to SDN and wanted to know a few opinions

First, I am going into my second year of college. I started off as a Neuroscience major and thought that it would be really good for medical schools. As you'd expect it is a pretty strenuous major, even though it was just my first year. Needless to say, I didn't do very well. I'm sitting at a 2.5 gpa. I am retaking a few of those classes that I didn't do very well in for grade replacement, so that will help a bit.

However, I'm really not enjoying neuroscience. I thought that I would and I'm really not. I do think that I would enjoy being a Kinesiology major.

So my questions are.
1.) Is there still hope for my gpa to recover even after the ***t first year.
2.) Would it be a bad idea for me to switch majors, or should I just get over it and get through these next three years.

There is no grade replacement.

Is neuroscience that hard?

Kinesiology seems to be more of a PrePT major.

Why not just major in psychology or biology?

I was a kinesiology major and I am going to a Top-20 school in the Fall, so don't let stereotypes of the major deter you. Learning about human anatomy, human physiology, and how our organ systems change under stress are pretty applicable to medical school and medicine.

 

[BombsAway]

Exercise physiology was pretty helpful for mcat prep, IMO.