Pre-Req's and SMP

[donniebrasco]

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First post here. Hopefully not the last 🙂

So I'll be transferring from a California CC to UC Santa Cruz as a junior this fall. I have not done any of my science or calculus pre-req's so far. I'm a Poli Sci major, thus none of my major requirements cover pre med req's. I want to take as many science classes as humanly possible at the UC, however, I just don't see how I can finish all of them in 2 years.

Anyways, which science classes should I take these next two years? Which ones should I do after I graduate and where would be the best place to take them? Does an SMP cover any of the pre-req's?

And to give you an idea, I can probably only take calculus junior year and then one science junior and senior.

Thanks for hearing me out 🙂

 

[genswim24]

Anyways, which science classes should I take these next two years?
Which ones should I do after I graduate and where would be the best place to take them? Does an SMP cover any of the pre-req's?

Here are Tulane's pre-reqs
http://tulane.edu/som/admissions/requirements.cfm

Here are Tufts

http://www.tufts.edu/med/admissions/md/eligibility/prereq.html

Most of the school's will require pretty much the same thing. An SMP does not cover any of your pre-req's as the classes you take are graduate classes. SMP's are for people who have completed their pre-req's. Normally people who do SMP's have lower than average GPA's and solid MCAT scores

 

[Mattabet]

Are you married to the idea of just taking two additional years? Because I agree that a year of calc, bio, chem, o-chem, and physics is probably too much to bear in two years, but you'd probably be able to handle it in three. And a lot of people end up on five-year programs. Your other option would be to get them taken care of as a post-bac somewhere, but I don't know much about that.

I'd start (actually, I did start) with calculus and general/physical chemistry. Senior year, I'd try to take orgo. If you're a math person, or you have some experience, you can probably do physics alongside either orgo or bio without much of a problem (I did mine with bio). And if you did a third year, that would only leave bio in that last year (plus some English classes if that still needs to get taken care of, or reqs. for your major.

Best of luck!