Homemade Pre-Med program

[cookderosa]

Yup. Don't even think about some wonky non-accredited place. It's easy enough to find the classes at a community college for cheap and knock it all out in a year.

I think even a year is pushing it. It's 8 classes, 4 are sequential. Traditional schools only offer 3 terms per year, so you're looking at accelerated terms AND double labs to finish in a year. The thing about going FAST, is that it's not as important as earning and learning. First, you need all A's. (earning A's isn't all that hard for everyone, but the MCAT is the great leveler....) Next, you'll need to <cough> LEARN this stuff. It's going to be on the MCAT. In fact, it IS the MCAT. Gaps in your learning and retention will be blasted into front and center. If you spend any amount of time on the premed forums (not suggested...but anyway....) you'll find TONS of people who "should" be scoring highly. High school AP biology teachers, master's degrees in biochem, PhDs in physiology, engineers. The list goes on. The test eats science people and spits them out.

I say this respectfully, but "everyone" has the same goal - to score highly. Most people also share the same second goal- to score higher on their second attempt.

It is FASTER to take the classes SLOWER because time to learn on the front end means your "study for the MCAT" is only study/review/refresh. An accelerated school schedule means potential for gaps, which WILL require learning and filling later. Also, if you have to wait until next cycle, what was gained? There is a saying that I think of for pre-health sciences: No time to do it right but plenty of time to do it twice.