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Your post actually made my head hurt
your post actually made my head hurt
I am a second yr at RU-NWK, and NWK has a few things that go with it, it has a rep for having a hard (if you take lab113/114, you'll see why) and Chem dept, its better than NBs
Out Bio isnt as good as NBs but their Chem isnt as good as ours.
I'll edit my post more later on, as I have lab in the morning and i need to my sleep. (All ready feeling sleepy)
btw what yr are you ?
Theirs alot of psych research that goes on, also TA options.
I am currently finishing my last semester at County College of Morris. I have most of the pre-med requirements completed except for physics 1 & 2 and Calculus 1. My current GPA is 3.0 which isn't great. I am also currently taking an EMT course and volunteering at a local hospital. I want to continue with these extra-curricular activities while at Rutgers. I would appreciate anyone's input with the steps I would have to make at Rutgers, to have a better chance to get into medical school. Which upper level classes should be taken? Does Rutgers help students with the MCAT's or due you have to take prep courses? The opportunities for research widely available? Thanks!
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Did you get to med school?
As for the prep courses I would head over to the MCAT forums to double check but I do not think it will change drastically. Right now we have a Physical, Verbal, and Biological section. Basically they are only going to add a sociology/psychology section and tweak the other sections to include a little biochemistry I believe. So the content will not be very different. I would suggest taking sociology and psychology before you take it though. When I took the MCAT they had a trial section which I believe simulates what will be on the new MCAT section. You would have a very difficult time without taking psychology and sociology courses.
Thank you very much for your reply. I took 2 psychology courses last year as one of my Hum/Soc upper/lower requirements. I have sociology lined up for either this semester or the next. It's good to know the content won't change much. Then, I guess, I may as well try to take the Kaplan course this year, if I can.
I would make sure you really want to do engineering. Engineering and medicine really are two different careers. I understand many people (I've noticed many asian indians at rutgers) do this (specifically BME) as a backup plan in case med school falls through. Don't forget you will be taking harder classes and expecting to maintain the same gpa and same mcat score. They will not feel bad that your major is harder than the bio majors. Just keep that in mind.
I know exactly what you mean. I applied to BME as a backup at first, before I realized there wasn't a chance I'd let med school fall through. I applied everywhere early, but it wasn't until after the interviews and applications and essays were all submitted that I realized I was being an idiot and medicine was the only way for me. I know what I'm doing, but always a little too late.
By then I'd gotten sucked into the whole Engineering way, though. I firmly believe, for some reason, that if you're a surgeon (for example) with an engineering background, you are in a better position to do research in your field and defend your conclusions. And my internship is a blessing, really. My mentor is very supportive of my engineering plans and gave me an assignment to write up a presentation based on his research, which involves quite a bit of engineering material I'm not at all familiar with yet.
But yes, I must be at least a little crazy.
Bumpity bump bump. I started out as a post bac but now I'm registered as a second degree-seeking student and can't wait to get started next week! I'm at the Newark campus. I took the Concepts in Biology course this summer and now I'm trying to finish all my medical school pre-reqs by Fall 2016 so I can have all of Spring 2017 to study for the MCAT and apply for linkage. I am banking on the linkage still holding strong by then. Anyone have any experience with Rutgers's new linkage program (to NJMS)? So far, they have told me that only 3 people applied for the linkage program since the start of the program (2012), so one applicant for each year. Only 2 out of 3 have gotten in.
Gen Chem and Intro to Experimentation (the lab) are two separate courses. You don't have to take them at the same time. In fact, most people I knew took Intro to Exp Spring semester of their freshman year (my case) or sometime their sophomore year. They also have changed Biology and its lab for awhile now. You have to take Biology 115 before being able to register for Bio Lab 117As an incoming freshman, I'm thinking to take calculus, expository writing, chemistry with lab, and biology with lab. Contrary to the HPO office of recommendation, should I take chemistry with lab during the summer and psychology instead, in order to decrease my course load and possibly increase my chances of getting high grades?