Anyone w/o a B.S/B.A @S.M.U

[med etudiant]

As title says...

[senz_asian]

As title says...


Most of the students do have a BSc or a BA and sometimes a PhD and Masters ... but I got in with 90+ credits requirements .

cheers!

[azulpanther]

I know lots of students without a college degree and they are well into their rotations

[Future MD | DM erutuF]

I decided to come to SMU without a ** because I did not want to spend another year to get my ** and another year in a post-bac to boost up my CV. I did fine in basic sciences and passed without a problem, and there were people with ** degrees who had trouble even passing anatomy 3 times. The point I'm trying to make is that there are extremes at each end of the spectrum, and just because a few people did well in the first 5 semesters without a ** degree does not guarantee you will as well. You have to make sure that you're cut out for this profession and willing to let everything go to make medicine your #1 priority.

With that said, however, any advice people tell you to finish up and get your ** should be taken with a grain of salt. Only you know your situation and what you're capable of.

Best of luck!

[WSUCougar]

I decided to come to SMU without a ** because I did not want to spend another year to get my ** and another year in a post-bac to boost up my CV. I did fine in basic sciences and passed without a problem, and there were people with ** degrees who had trouble even passing anatomy 3 times. The point I'm trying to make is that there are extremes at each end of the spectrum, and just because a few people did well in the first 5 semesters without a ** degree does not guarantee you will as well. You have to make sure that you're cut out for this profession and willing to let everything go to make medicine your #1 priority.

With that said, however, any advice people tell you to finish up and get your ** should be taken with a grain of salt. Only you know your situation and what you're capable of.

Best of luck!

nice advice.

I came here with a B.S. in Biology, and the only thing that has helped me in Basic Sciences is that I took Biochemistry, Microbiology, Gross Anatomy, and hundreds of Cell Biology's in undergrad, which has helped me tremendously in Basic Sciences. Everything else I took, was nothing more than busy work classes that just wanted to waste my time, and reek havic on my GPA....

Thanks to that whole year of Physics, and Calculus.

Also.... you can come here and get you Bachelors through Davenport, if you just couldn't sleep at night due to not obtaining your Bachelors.

[med etudiant]

Thanks guys. I'm kind of at a "fork in the road" in my education. At this point I can finish my degree, without taking some nice science classes to build my fondation (biochem, cell bio, anatomy, etc) I would really rather to those classes and know in my heart I can tackle med school. The Davenport program sounds nice too! Hopefully I can be at SMU fall 09

[Future MD | DM erutuF]

Thanks guys. I'm kind of at a "fork in the road" in my education. At this point I can finish my degree, without taking some nice science classes to build my fondation (biochem, cell bio, anatomy, etc) I would really rather to those classes and know in my heart I can tackle med school. The Davenport program sounds nice too! Hopefully I can be at SMU fall 09

If anything I would try for a course in Physiology. I did a physio course at the local community college where they have a solid nursing pathway program and surprisingly, the course went into quite amount of detail. Genetics is a good course to have under your belt as well. I think that course will help you out in the long run as opposed to Biochem where, from the experience of many in my class, the focus in undergrad biochem is completely different from med school's focus. Just my 2 cents.

[gschneid]

I would say go ahead and finish your bachelor's degree before you get here. Not because it will help you any more in med school, but because it's a nice thing to have in case you change your mind about medicine or things don't work out here. Here's a hypothetical situation: Say you come here without your B.S. degree and spend a couple semesters only to find out that you don't like it or can't cut it. You will be saddled with about $40K of debt (not counting any from undergrad) and have to start paying on it immediately. Can you go out and get a decent job without a B.S. that pays enough to afford loan payments? Most likely not. That's why I think it's a good thing to have just in case. It can only help you.