Monday, April 12, 2010

College!!!!!?

HEY I WANNA GO TO DUKE,YALE,OR HAVARD TO BECOME A ORTHEPTETIC SUREGEN.....I AM 13 YEARS OLD WHAT 1 SOULD I GO 2????

College!!!!!?
First, quit thinking about Duke, Yale or Harvard for now. Those are 10 years in the future.





Right now, take a solid college-prep curriculum: four years math, four English, bio-chem-physics, history, foreign language, psychology, and a good range of arts. Earn a solid GPA.





It's a good idea to volunteer in a medical setting if you can.





You want to earn a bachelor's degree as cheaply as possible--recently the dean of a local medical school came out publicly with his concerns that too many med. school graduates are too far in debt from student loans. So, unless mom 'n dad are rich and ready to pay for college, start at a community college and transfer to a state university to complete the BS degree.





The usual major is pre-med, but medical colleges say they want well-rounded scholars--so use your electives to take a wide range of arts, humanities, social sciences, and culture courses. Or, major in anything and use your electives to cover all the math and science classes that a pre-med major would take.





While in college, work (pay or volunteer) in a medical setting where you can meet doctors. Tell them that you're working to become an orthopedic surgeon (BTW that's how it's spelled). Some of them will admire you and will offer to help. Remember them!





Late in your junior year, take the MCAT test. ACE the thing! Prepare for it in as many ways as you can.





In your senior year, you'll apply to medical colleges. Ask your helpful doctors which ones to consider (in addition to Yale and Harvard and Duke). Ask them to look at your application essay for you. Ask them what to expect in the interviews. Ask them if they'll write letters of recommendation for you (their recommendations will carry WEIGHT!).





Then you'll be off to medical school--and if it isn't Yale or them, it's still good--and you'll do 3 years of coursework and a couple more of internships and residencies and state board exams to earn your general practitioner's license; then more course work and internships and residencies and national boards to certify you as an orthopod.





Discipline yourself to work hard at every step, and remember that the years in med school and residencies will be exhausting--keep yourself in top physical condition and eat a healthy diet, for your own sake.
Reply:Calm down. Medical schools are only interested in your 4-year college transcripts, so nothing you do in the next 5 years is going to matter to medical schools. Concentrate on doing well in school and getting into a good college for pre-med.

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