Is it possible to be premed and athlete?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Possible to be “pre-med”- yes, of course.

Chances of successfully being admitted to a US medical school straight from undergrad (no post bacc, research/retake MCAT year, etc) without completely giving up your social life in college- very unlikely.

Why is being a “college athlete” so important to you? Could those same goals be achieved if you played your sport on a less competitive level (local games vs traveling out of state, for example)?

Very unlikely? I know four including my niece, her boyfriend, my nephew, and a friends daughter. Two of them were athletes. One D1, one D3.

Huh? Out of the grand total of four doctors that you know, two of them were college athletes. I don’t think your example proves what you think it does.

Doctors? No, kids in med school right now who went directly from undergrad. It takes discipline but it’s very doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is impossible and at some schools not allowed — to be a D1 athlete and major in ore-med, any lab based science, definite no on nursing.

We know one girl whose school she’d committed to told her during high school senior year that she could not major in Biology. She claims to have asked previously and everyone said she could do it. And then, bam! No. She decommitted and went D3 smarty pants school.

Yes, it’s the required lab hours that become the deal breaker for most college athletes.

Regardless of chosen major, you can’t escape the basic med school application requirements: 1 year each of gen chem, ochem, bio, and physics (all with lab components). Forget the additional lab classes that help you stand out (gross human anatomy, biochem, etc).

[Anonymous]

Agree that definitely doable at an Ivy. My athlete DC did premed requirements and so did several teammates, though they didn’t have a lot of free time for other things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Possible to be “pre-med”- yes, of course.

Chances of successfully being admitted to a US medical school straight from undergrad (no post bacc, research/retake MCAT year, etc) without completely giving up your social life in college- very unlikely.

Why is being a “college athlete” so important to you? Could those same goals be achieved if you played your sport on a less competitive level (local games vs traveling out of state, for example)?

Very unlikely? I know four including my niece, her boyfriend, my nephew, and a friends daughter. Two of them were athletes. One D1, one D3.

Huh? Out of the grand total of four doctors that you know, two of them were college athletes. I don’t think your example proves what you think it does.

Doctors? No, kids in med school right now who went directly from undergrad. It takes discipline but it’s very doable.

Haha, not even worth arguing with someone who uses med school and “very doable” in the same sentence.
By your logic, getting in as a non-athlete is a breeze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good number of athletes at my WASP went to medical school.

You went to a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?

[Anonymous]

OP- before this thread leads you down the wrong path, please clarify exactly what you mean by “be premed.”

I had to stop reading the responses after the third “definitely doable/very doable/easy,” because I assumed you were asking how likely it would be for you to actually get into medical school, not just take the required undergrad classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the only major that has been discouraged for our D1 recruit is engineering.

Sciences seem ok

“Sciences” majors does not = “premed.”

For example, I double majored in the Sciences, yet would have to go back to school for at least a full year in order to even apply to a US medical school. Add another 6 months to that for MCAT studying, volunteering/shadowing, and research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone’s DC has any positive experience?

If it’s doable, which college setting makes it easier? Small liberal arts? Mid-sized research universities?

OP, you need to post this type of question on the big med school admissions boards. Not on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

I teach at a med school. Lots of college athletes here, including plenty of D1, so it's certainly more than doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach at a med school. Lots of college athletes here, including plenty of D1, so it's certainly more than doable.

Some schools encourage athletes to be anything; but others limit their choices. Applicants need to know this. My med school had some D1 and multiple D3 athletes. Most people were not athletes though. The ones who were came from feeder undergrads (ivies, Duke, top LACs) that support athletes being premed. However the whole program skewed to top undergrads and still does 23 years later. T5 med school with 80% of the students from T30 privates, top publics like Mich Berkeley UVA UNC GT and top 15 LACs as well as top HBCUs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes but go for a school that gives easy As

Such as?

[Anonymous]

There's a lot at JHU