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Originally posted by LaNathan
We only have general advisors. There's events with like a psych mentor / advisor but I never got to make it to any and also there's none this month.
Would a B.S. be the best path then for both med or grad school?
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For med school, you only need to take certain required classes that generally all med schools look for. As far as my school goes, those classes include:
1 year of Intro Biology
1 year of Inorganic Chemistry (same as intro Chemistry)
Organic Chemistry 1 and 2, as well as the lab
Statistics (there's reg, Bio stats, and Psych stats that are offered at my school and they all count)
Calculus 1
Intro to Psychology
1 year of English (writing classes basically)
Biochemistry (some schools offer it as a two semester course, mine is 1 semester which is why I hate it
)
1 year of intro Physics
My school offers a medical Anthropology course that is recommended but not required. Your school should have those requirements listed somewhere on your school website.
As far as clinical psych goes, I think the best thing would be to look at the requirements of grad programs offering clinical psychology and asking what kind of coursework is needed. Asking different schools if they prefer a B.A or a B.S also helps.