ANY Premed ADVICE for ME?!?

Question

I'm a sophomore with 3.566 GPA. Importantly, I'm interested in Premed and/or Pre-Optometry. None of my family (through generation) weren't in any medical field, mostly in art. So I don't have much of HELP/ADVICE in Premed, which I definitely need help on ASAP. I'm planing to take AP: Bio, Chem, Physic B, Eng Lit and Spanish Lit (or Lang) during my next two years in high school. And other classes I need to take to graduate from my high school. AP Calculus (which is very important to take), somewhere in community college as my Running Start as soon as I get to be qualify at a certain level. To be honest, I really need to talk to a Premed, Pre-Optometry and/or Medical student for ADVICE...S!!! T0T ...SO PLEASE HELP ME!!! I truly don't want to be in a wrong road to be what I passionately want to be in a future. Thank You for your time! If anyone would like to help, please E-MAIL ME: [e-mail]

Answer 1

First, you can do this.

Second, it doesn't matter what major you have in college, but it does matter that you do very, very well in your prerequisite courses that you take. In college you must take chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology and probably calculus, and you must do well in these tough courses. So, you must prepare well for them in high school. Take all the chemistry and math you can get at the toughest level. APs.

If you have to go to community college for financial reasons, then that is OK, but you must totally dedicate yourself to getting A's in these prereq courses. You must transfer to the state university as soon as you can and as soon as you get there, check in with the premed advisor.

Besides your coursework, you should be doing volunteer work at a hospital - try to get a volunteer job doing something involved with the kind of patients you hope to work with in the future. There is going to be a big need for geriatric care in the future, so maybe that would be a good direction to go in. Get to know the doctors and ask them for advice.

Check the website of the Association of American Medical Colleges AAMC - they have a book that is revised each year about how to get into med school. Probably the state college near you has a copy of this book in their library. Check it out.

Good luck. We need dedicated MDs!!!!

Answer 2

sorry, i don't know the answer
but I would really like to hear some responses because I am also a sophomore who'd like to be an optometrist or some type of doctor, like what would be some great med schools?