Do you have to take pre med to become a doctor?

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a pre-med major to get into medical school. As long as you complete the requirements for medical school, which typically include chemistry—including inorganic, organic and biochemistry—biology, physics, English, calculus and/or statistics, you’ll generally be set.

What should I major in if I want to do pre med?

Most pre-med students choose a major in the hard sciences like Biology, Chemistry, or Physics such that their pre-med courses also fulfill the course requirements for their major.

How long is college and med school?

Medical school takes 4 years to complete, but to become a doctor you’ll also spend 3–7 years in residency.

Should I go to MIT for premed?

As I pointed out in my opinion piece, we have to study so much at MIT just to get a B in our premed classes that we are forced to sacrifice time that could easily be spent in pursuing extracurricular and research activities. This is fine if you are really smart and can get A’s at MIT without too much work, but for the rest of us]

How hard is it to get into MIT for MD programs?

Extensive connections with MGH (Mass General Hospital) and the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST, or one of the best MD-PhD programs around) are available to undergrads conveniently. MIT applicants not applying as “research” MD candidates, however, have a more difficult time in the application process due to both stereotyping…

What is mitmit’s Pre-Health Office?

MIT has a pre-health office that has streamlined the medical school process and made everything easy to follow and understand. Last semester, all the students planning on entering medical school in Fall ’12 were asked to answer a series of questions to allow them to be matched to a pre-med advisor.

Should I apply to MIT If I don’t do any research?

If you are applying from MIT and is not extensively involved in research, you better have something else that is strong to back up your application, because the logical question to ask is “why no research from MIT?”