Undergrad majors?

[smsc2009]

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Any non science majors find it difficult to complete the prereqs? (in terms of fitting it into your scheduling) I am majoring in political science but plan on completing the prereqs, just want to hear about the experience of others.

 

[hightower]

I was a political science major but I pretty much finished my degree before I decided to go into podiatry so it took me an extra two years. If you still have a few years left you can easily knock out most of the science pre-requisites. Just take about two science classes per semester. You may have to sacrifice and take a few over the summer breaks if you want to graduate in a specific time frame. Usually political science programs are short in length credit wise. If you have three years left I don't think you should have any problems. Hopefully you have two or three years to work with. If not the worst is you have to go to school an extra year to finish the science pre-reqs. In the end it will be worth it. Shoot, I had to do two straight years of nothing but science and it was worth it in the end. Lay out a map and stick to it. Study hard to keep your overall and science GPA up. Reading poly-sci journal articles will help your verbal reasoning on the MCAT. It did for me at least. Good luck!

 

[KingJ]

yeah I was a political science major too, i ended up completing my degree in 3years and now im doing a post-bach with has all of my pre-reqs in it. I didn;t really plan it this way. i just decided that i didn't want to go to law school and rather do something in medicine.

i would imagine the classes are hard to fit in because most of them have a lab along with em, usually people who what you are doing take one or 2 pre-reqs a semester along with their regular classes, its unique class load thats for sure.

 

[smsc2009]

Thanks for the replies. It gives me some confidence knowing that the only two people who replied were actually political science majors. As a young kid, I always thought I wanted to do something in healthcare whether it be medicine, dentistry, etc. It's probably because I come from a medical family and I think everyone at some point in their life wants to follow in their family's footsteps. In high school I also thought about pharmacy too but the business of medicine would always scare me away. I know the HMO's really ruined medicine but I don't think that should discourage me. I love the topics in political science and the idea of law. I thought about healthcare law and bioethics but I'd hate to regret not trying for medicine when I'm 40. It will be much easier to go back to law school at 40 part time if I really want to go back to school for the law degree then it would be to go back into medicine from law because of residency, etc.

I think I've narrowed it down between DPM and MD though. I do not want to be one of the people who chooses podiatry because they couldn't get into an MD program. I want to make the right decision. I always think about podiatry because whenever I go to see a podiatrist (which is rare) but it is because I am in an eminence amount of pain and when I leave the podiatrists office my quality of life up a lot because I am no longer in that pain. There's not too many specialties in medicine that can say they make that big a difference as soon as you step outside their office to go home.

Anyway, I'll be around the DPM and MD forums more and more so I'll probably get to know some of you.

 

[tellsarah]

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