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Hi everyone,

I recently got admitted to the School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. I am a transfer pre-med student from a community college and I am not sure which would be the better school. I would appreciate any suggestion from any one going to Rutgers NB or graduated. I am not sure what would be a good major and minor to get into medical school. I wanted to know the type of extra-curricular activities that are available related to the health profession at Rutgers. Thanks!

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Definitely pick SAS (no offense to anyone in SEBS). Both are great, but SAS is more versatile. Your science classes with be more on Busch (vs. Cook with SEBS). A lot of the premier research labs and facilities are also on busch (with the PI's and professors affiliated with one of the departments in SAS).
 
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Which school would Snooki recommend? 😉
 
Which school would Snooki recommend? 😉

haha, that would be SEBS because there are a lot of ducks on campus and she's had a thing for them ever since using the duck phone.

Although SEBS does do the marine bio, etc they also have programs in biochem, biotech, and bioinformatics just to name a few. I think it comes down to which graduation requirements you prefer to fulfill. Naturally SAS has a slight liberal arts inclination whereas SEBS is more technical. I know a lot more SEBS students doing research with various programs from animal science to food science (ok, know phonetically that doesn't seem like a very wide range but I meant it to be haha). SEBS also requires 8 more credits to graduate than SAS (which is negligible over 4 years but I'm not sure how it will affect you as a transfer).

Lastly, (99% sure its all) SAS degrees are BAs while SEBS offers mostly BSs. Don't think the letters matter at the end of the day but just a heads up. Know some people who were disappointed when they realized they weren't getting a BS even though they had studied in the sciences.
 
I'd also suggest being part of SAS. I'm premed at RU and that's the school I belong to. You should also definitely go to the HPO (health professions office) on busch and start an account. The office is designed to help/advise students that are trying to get into the health professions.

-you can major and minor in whatever you want, as long as you take
- 1 year of bio with lab
- 1 year of gen chem with lab (you only need one semester of gen chem lab at RU, it's called intro to experimentation)
- 1 year of orgo with lab (you also only need one semester's worth of an orgo lab)
- 1 Year of physics with lab
- Rutgers is a great school mainly because of how diverse it is. Thus, you can get involved in many many different activities/clubs.
-You'll definitely want to try and do as many extra-curricular things as possible like work in a lab, become an EMT, etc.
If you take all of those classes, do well on the MCAT, get a good GPA, and have plenty of good EC's, you're all set.

Good luck, fellow rutgers student.
 
Thanks for the replies, your suggestions have been very useful. I am enrolled in SAS so know need to pay $150 and sort out all the other administrative stuff. I wanted to know is it better to live on campus or not? Is the rent for off-campus as expensive as on campus accommodation? Thanks!
 
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