As a high school senior you have a long time to decide which path you want to take. Most people don't make a final decision on their major until afte...

Having been an EMT is good experience for your clinical rotations once you are in medical school. Unfortunately, though, I doubt that your experience...

GPA and MCAT scores are far and away the most important factors in getting into medical school. The extracurricular activities are great but they mos...

As long as you have a valid excuse for the withdrawals, I would suggest you include your explanation with your applications to the medical schools. B...

It sounds like you are asking about career options with various college degrees. The options are pretty much limitless. For example, just doing a qu...

Lil, I'm not sure what type of trade school. But I think if you have any bachelor's degree you would just need to take the required pre-med classes ...

For most medical schools, you'll need a bachelor's degree. You'll need to take the required pre-med courses at a 4 year college. So, you are looking...

It won't hurt your application to medical school to take intro courses in biology and chemistry at the community college as long as you retake them in...

You can find the website by Googling "beth healthcare china", as I didn't want to link to their website directly not knowing much about them. It do...

Most medical schools do not require calculus, but a few do. You may want to check with a few medical schools that you'd consider (like your top state...

In my opinion, it makes the most sense to get an undergrad degree and then go to medical school. Your undergrad degree will take 4 years, then medica...

Jobs make little difference when it comes to getting accepted into a medical school. The main factors are GPA and MCAT scores. After that, letters o...

If you do well at community college, it probably won't hurt that much, assuming you can actually get into a good university. Although, you shouldn't ...

It's possible, but it's a very long road ahead if that is the path you are sure you will take. You need to get an undergraduate degree. The degree c...

Major makes virtually no difference in a medical school application. I have two suggestions as to selecting a major: 1. Take classes you find inter...

I have to admit I don't know anything about medical schools in Canada. I can only tell you about how things work in the US. I don't know what you co...

Sounds like a very good plan. Make sure the general biology course includes a lab, as that is what pre-med biology is supposed to be. Taking the pre...

Pre-med is not a major. Pre-med just means you are taking the courses necessary to apply to medical school - 1 year biology, 1 year general chemistry...

You need to take the pre-med courses to go to medical school. You can be a psychologist without med school but not a psychiatrist. You can be a psyc...

I'm not very familiar with the process for international students. There seems to be some good information along the lines of what you are seeking on...

I assume the post-bac program you are referring to is this one: post bac premedical program at William Paterson University The one thing to note the...

Let me know what they say. If they say they don't accept international graduates, be sure to ask them if they have any suggestions of programs that m...

I am not familiar with individual programs. You should direct your questions towards the contact person at that school.

Your GPA is helped by getting A's in your classes. It doesn't matter which program you are following, as long as you get A's in your classes.

If you are sure you are going to medical school, then I don't think it makes any difference which course you do. If you may not go to medical school,...

I'm not personally too experienced with the advantages and disadvantages of a post-bacc program, but we did have a discussion on post-bacc pre-medical...

There are dozens of websites (although I don't know if any of them are legit, or if they are just trying to take people's money) that specialize in he...

It won't make much difference whether you do one of the programs you mentioned or if you take just the required pre-med courses. A 3.2 GPA isn't horr...

Typically, the letter grades are: 90-100 = A 80-90 = B 70-80 = C So - I would say a gpa of 3.5 would probably be the same as a 92.5% overall maybe? ...

I can't really offer you much help as to which colleges will accept international applicants and would let you take the required pre-med coures. Most...

You take 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year of biology, 1 year of organic chemistry, and 1 year of physics. Most people who are taking the courses w...

Those courses would be offered at most if not all 4 year undergraduate colleges (in the US). You would need to take the level of course that someone ...

Good to know the reason for not getting into the post-bacc program wasn't your grades (which is what I had assumed). A 3.3 isn't too far from the mar...

You will need to check with your school to see if those science classes are the same courses people take who are majoring those fields. Definitely ma...

No matter what you take now, your GPA from your undergraduate school will still count. You'll need to take the required pre-med courses. If your gra...

I'm a bit confused. Where did you complete your pre-med courses if you are accepted at Univ of Georgia and Emory? You sound like you are in college ...

You are not too old to go to medical school. I had several classmates that were older than you now are. They did struggle with many aspects of medic...

Very briefly - in order to complete the pre-med requirements, you don't need to go through another 4 year program for a bachelors degree. You can tak...

You present an interesting situation in which you obtained a Masters Degree but are now going back and obtaining a bachelors degree. Your grades now ...

You don't say if you are planning on attending medical school after college, but you don't need to take pre-med courses in order to be a psychology ma...

I would say go with whatever you think you will enjoy more. While doctors do often help people deal and recover from illness, as a vet you will help ...

From what I recall, when I applied to medical schools around 15 years ago, the medical schools did accept AP credit as fulfilling the pre-med requirem...

To take some information from the Medical School Requirements thread: Q. What GPA do I need to get into medical school? A. I have never heard of a p...

Check out this thread on high school classes to become a psychiatrist. Let me know if you have more questions.

You won't be able to apply to medical school until you've take the pre-med level science classes. Community colleges do not offer the proper level of...

Community colleges don't offer the level of the science courses that you need to apply to medical school. Assuming you don't want to return to school...

Your GPA is competitive with other people who get accepted into medical school. My own sense is that less than 3.2 GPA will make it difficult to get ...

Based on this article about University of Central Florida's Pre-Health Professions Advisers, I think you should be able to find a good advisor for you...

You'll find more info in this thread about undergraduate majors and becoming a psychiatrist. As I'm sure you are aware, becoming a psychologist is ve...