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Originally posted by SoCalGirl:
Hi Carnation!
Thirteen Kids!!!  Bless you, Bless you, Bless you!!!
I can't help you on the whole greek life thing at those schools. But for the daughter who will be pre-med, I have some advice.
My school cranks out so many pre-med students it's insane! But what I've learned from our provosts and our med school admissions is that med schools would rather take a student with a 4.0 in history over a student w/ a 3.7 in biology. So just as long as the student still takes the required courses for admission is does not matter what the BA/BS is in!
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SoCal - you're right in one regard, as the major of choice for med schools is relatively unimportant (the #1 major catagory for incoming med students last year, according to US News: art/music) . . . however, don't discredit the usefulness of the math/science GPA - for med school you do submit a separate math/science/lab work gpa, and (according to the med schools and advisory staff i've talked to) this is weighed heavily for potential candidates. So don't worry about major per se, but also it's more than necessary to perform well in the requireed math and science courses for med school, from what i've been told. hope this helps!
Rob (yet another pre-med kid . . .)