2nd year student @ hampshire college looking for premed academic advice.

[gunit00]

Hey,

I'm coming at you guys from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I am in dire need for academic advice. I would like to become a premed student, but I don't know where to start. I have the opportunity to take classes at Amherst College, Umass Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith College. I would like to take advantage of this once in a life time opportunity.

In my first year at hampshire I completed all of the curriculum "requirements".
This is what my first academic year was comprised of:
1. NS-0121 1 Human Biology
2. NS-0153 1 Nat. Hist. of Infect. Disease
3. NS-0233 1 Nutritional Anthropology
4. NS-0101 1 Gene Cloning
5. NS-0101 1 How Things Work
6. CS-117T 1 Philosophy of Education
7. IA-0101 2 Spanish
8. SS-0210 1 Intro Economics
9. HACU-0108 1 Intro to Media Production

I have yet to get academic advice on my premed aspirations, I figured I could get some advice from those you have been through premed or are currently in premed. I just don't know where to start planning out my next three years at Hampshire.
I would appreciate any help I could get.

P.S.I am taking EMT classes @ B.U. and I should be certified by October.
Thanks

[jameslynton]

Hey,

I'm coming at you guys from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I am in dire need for academic advice. I would like to become a premed student, but I don't know where to start. ....I have yet to get academic advice on my premed aspirations, I figured I could get some advice from those you have been through premed or are currently in premed. I just don't know where to start planning out my next three years at Hampshire.
I would appreciate any help I could get.

ThanksYou only need intro chemistry with labs 3 quarters or two semesters and same with intro physics with lab. How many of your biology courses had labs? You need two semesters of organic chem and labs.

Major in something fun you can get easy A's in. Don't major in science. The profs often dislike "pre-meds", "cause you are not serious about science". Take plenty of English as that helps with the USMLE and MCAT exam. Do a quality MCAT prep course and use Examcrakers for the verbal as it is better than what Kaplan or Princeton review teach for verbal reasoning. Don't expect quality pre-med advice from most schools.

[ericismyname]

Some schools have classes below the "general" level called Intro in which they are not accepted as the premed requirements. I just wanted to clarify for him so he didn't take Intro to Biology as opposed to General Biology 1, or any of the other sciences for that matter.

[gunit00]

thanks guys