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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ not even a pre-med, just Biology w/ a focus in microbiology and had all of those.

Analytic chem, organic chem, regular chem, biochemistry, physics, calculus, psychology, microbiology, immunology, food microbiology, etc.

They were requirements to graduate.

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You need to do almost all of these course by by junior year before you take the MCAT.  You also need to get in all the research, volunteer, clinical experience and shadowing hours in by then as well because the applications start being accepted June at the end of your junior year.  And you need a 3.8 or so average.

It is do demanding that many are now doing their courses in college, doing some of the various hours, but going full force post-graduation on the hours and MCAT studying.  They take the MCAT a year after graduating, spend hundreds of hours applying to twenty plus med schools, doing interviews etc. and, if they get accepted enter med school two years after graduating.

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I hate that this thread is off track, but this is not new. Dh did this in the 90s. Took the year after college graduation to do research in a lab and study for MCAT. Every summer since high school was also devoted to internships, volunteering and research. Many years of summer school on top of that to fill in other requirements like foreign language.

It’s always been a difficult path to becoming a doctor, this is not some new thing. Your kid is either cut out for it or not. It doesn’t get easier in med school or residency. [/quote]
Oh BS! Typical DCUM response bashing kids’ academic achievements. BTW, I am the PP and my kid is 8! Anyway, no one ever said that it shouldn’t be difficult, but, as this crisis and the aging population shows, there needs to be more medical school and residency slots and thousands of them at that. [/quote]

exactly.  Bit of an imbalance in the post-graduate schooling-required professions.  i.e. we have too many lawyers.  Nobody ever died from having too few lawyers.  [/quote]

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