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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your pre-nursing classes will not be the same as the those that you need for medical school and you can't take the MCAT before taking the pre-med reqs.
You'll need:
a year of college biology
a year of college chemistry
a year of organic chem
a year of physics
and generally 
a year of calculus and at least a class in biochemistry.

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The pre-reqs are very similar - the first year of med school is very similar to the first year of nursing as it is pretty much all sciences then it splits off. The only pre-req on your list that I didn't need for nursing was organic chem. For nursing we also needed anatomy and physiology and microbiology.[/quote]

You don't need calculus for nursing school. It is really competitive to get into med school. Did you graduate from a top university? What was your undergrad GPA? Where are you taking your pre nursing classes? If it a community college and you got a B in a core class, it doesn't look good. I don't want to sound harsh but for the 2012 school year 45,000 people applied to med school and only 19,000 matriculated. It isn't like law school where you can go yo a third tier school if you are wiling to pay. There are NO lower tier med schools in the US. That is why some have to study in the Carribean or Mexico.[/quote]

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