Medical School Question?

Question

Can you go to medical school from a state school, such as Salem State College? Does the school need to offer premed or no?

Answer 1

Yes, you can. You can go from a private college. You don't need to be premed but there ARE classes you need to complete. Such as Organic Chemistry, a series of Bio classes, writing, etc. I'm not sure where to find the list of classes you need to take, but it's out there some where. Search Med School Required Classes. I know an English Major who went to med school!

Answer 2

Don't major in pre-med, med schools don't like it because it makes you look like you haven't considered the idea of not getting in. Major in biochemistry, its the best major to study for the MCAT and it helps in your first year of med school. Take a nice minor thats unique like dance. You can easily go to any medical school from a state school. Med schools don't care much about where you did it, they just want to know WHAT you did! Do research, lots of community service, work or volunteer at a hospital or clinic, get great letters of recommendation. Get a high GPA and MCAT score, then it just doesn't matter! I go to Arizona State University, and I did all of that. Now, I'm getting interviews at the top med schools in the country, including 1 in the top 10 so far with 9 pending (they haven't started reviewing apps at a lot of schools yet). The funny thing is, I scheduled an interview for Case Western Reserve (ranked 18 or so), and I noticed that a large number of the current med school students had come from the Ivy Leagues. I found this interesting, because they paid so much to go to a prestigious university and then they end up in a med school that isn't even in the top 15! It just goes to show you, work hard and you can go to Harvard without being from a private university.

Oh, the recs for med school are two gen chem classes with lab, two gen bio classes with lab, two organic chem classes with lab, two general physics classes and lab, and two english classes. A lot of schools also want a calculus and statistics class.