Would love some insight.

[fratstar]

Thank y'all for your help.

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[nicknickp3]

Without your stats its really hard to comment. If you KNOW you want to be a doctor, don't waste time take the required classes, take them over if you got C's, and make sure the rest of your app (EC's) are good.

 

[emtthink]

You can get into medical school with any major. I just graduated with a BS in public health, and I am applying right now. Just make sure to get all of the requirements in for medical school, and retake classes that you did poorly in.

 

[JamesLMT]

Hello everyone,
I'm set to begin my junior year at Tulane in their undergraduate Public Health program. I started off my freshman year taking some pre-med courses (bio, inorganic chem), but found my heart not really in it (and I did quite poorly), so I focused on my PH courses. However, now I'm really really wishing I had continued with pre-med and am coming to the realization that I definitely hope to be a doctor and would love to go to a DO school.
My favorite girl cousin recently started at Western and I went to her white coat ceremony and I really saw myself following in her footsteps in a few years, yet I know I have a GREAT deal of work to do to catch up. I guess I am wondering if y'all think that it would be worthwhile for me to continue with my public health courses, graduate, and then go back to school to finish the pre-med requirements or to pick up where I left off now. Should I jump back in or wait?

Thank y'all for your help.

Pre med requirements are minimal. Biology, Chem, O-Chem, Physics. Can you not add those courses on the side? Also, medical school is something that even when you are in it, you will ask yourself "what have I done?!" Make sure you just weren't enamored with the ceremony and that you are getting into medicine for the right reasons.