Washington University encourages pre-medical students to choose any major. Pre-medical advising starts from the freshman year and continues through the student's academic career at the school. The university offers assistance such as full-semester Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) test preparation, research opportunities and study abroad. No matter what your major is, you will take general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, mathematics and English.
Washington University looks for a well-rounded individuals who have the following high school classes: biology; chemistry; four years of English; four years of mathematics, including calculus; physics; 3 to 4 years of history or social sciences and at least two years of a foreign language, If possible, you should take advanced high-school classes, including advanced placement, international baccalaureate or honors classes. Other important aspects of your application include your overall grades, class ranking, SAT scores, ACT scores, recommendations and extracurricular activities.
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Washington University
Campus Box 1089
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
1-800-638-0700
wustl.edu
Harvard College offers student the opportunity to get a true understanding for what its like to be a doctor and to work in a hospital and what paths they can follow, through a mentorship program. Harvard also offers a hospital volunteer program and a first-year peer-advisement program. To gain entry into Harvard, you must be in the top 10 to 15 percent of your class. You should take four years of English, four years of history and four years of science. Applicants should be conversant in a foreign language, as well.
Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Harvard College
86 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
1-617-495-1551
harvard.edu
The University of California at Los Angles (UCLA) PREP has a seven-week program to give pre-medical students from disadvantaged backgrounds a chance to be accepted into medical school. They offer intensive study for the MCAT. To qualify for UCLA PREP, students must be from an under-served medical community or from a disadvantaged family, be a United States resident and have one year of biology and chemistry completed when program begins.
UCLA also offers clinical preceptorships, in which students are assigned to observe doctors and medical researchers. This helps students decide whether they want to go into medicine.
The college also offers an 11-month program for students who have been unable to get accepted into a medical school. In order to qualify, you must be willing to work in California once you have a medical license, come from a disadvantaged background, have a minimum 2.7 GPA, be a California resident, have a MCAT minimum score of 20 and have a bachelors degree.
In order to be considered for acceptance to UCLA , students must have two years of history or social science, four years of English, three to four years of mathematics, two to three years of science with labs, two to three years of a language, one year of visual and performing arts and one year of college-preparatory electives. You must take the ACT assessment and writing test or the SAT reasoning test and two SAT subject tests.
UCLA Undergraduate Admissions
and Relations with Schools (UARS)
1147 Murphy Hall, Box 951436
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1436
1-310 825-3101
ucla.edu