Can you get accepted into medical school with an online bachelor degree?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at
7:51 am
I haven’t been an online student forever, but just recently transferred. I am getting my degree in health sciences…well, right now it is psychology, but I’m switching. Anyway, with a good GPA and a health sciences(premed) degree will that get me into med school?
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No. Med schools still look down on online degrees.
In addition, all your med school pre-req classes should be done in person. This is absolutely vital for your science classes.
Med school pre reqs include:
- 1 year bio with lab
- 1 year gen chem w lab
- 1 year organic chem w lab
- 1 year physics w lab
- 1 year college English
- 1 year college math, at least through stats, and for some med schools, through calc
- Other science classes, as designated by the med school. Tends to include things like biochem, anatomy and physiology, etc.
The science classes I listed must be those for science majors.
You also need to do health-related volunteer work and physician shadowing.
No, you will need to have practical lab experience in biology and chemistry, otherwise you would get into med school and not know how to do any of that.