Pre-Professional Education

In order to achieve a minimum level of understanding, medical schools require one year of biology, two years of chemistry (through organic chemistry) and one year of physics. These courses should be rigorous and acceptable for the students who major in this discipline. All courses should include laboratory experience. Additional science courses are not required, although upper level courses may be taken to fulfill major requirements or out of educational interest.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We believe that the best preparation for our students regardless of their academic goals is to provide a solid core of courses that serves as a foundation for all future course work they may encounter, whether in graduate school, medical school or dental school. Thus, courses in Introductory Biology (BIOL 001, 002, and 090), Molecular Biology (BIOL 100), Cell Biology (BIOL 135) and Genetics (BIOL 125) provide basic information and insights that carry through studies in biological, medical, and dental sciences and indeed are the foundation upon which human-oriented and clinical studies rest.

*Medical School Admissions Requirements, US and CANADA 2001/2002

Web Sites for Pre-professional Students

Pre-professional Advising

Your first choice for seeking advice and guidance should be to meet with your pre-professional adviser in the College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette Hall. Nothing can replace the personal interaction and knowledgeable insights this person can provide.

Secondary to this is the wealth of information on the internet dealing with everything from specific information provided by professional schools to personal experiences of students who are applying to or have been accepted to the "school of their dreams."

Enjoy, but discuss with your adviser any questions that may arise through your search of these web sites. Please read the Caution below.

General Web Sites

On the search line of your internet browser type in "pre-medical advising" or "premedical advising." (They will return different sets of results. Remember, on the web spelling does count.) Several hundred web sites and pages should become available for you to access. Click on any that seem of interest to you. Most are for pre-meds, but a number are directed to pre-dents, pre-vets or other health professionals. You may wish to try more than one search engine.

Pre-medical Sites

In addition to those found above, check the site of the Association of American Medical Colleges at http://www.aamc.org for information on specific medical school requirements, the MCAT, application procedures and so forth. Alternately, on the search line type in Association of American Medical Colleges. Click on AAMC Home Page.

Pre-dental Studies

An informative site put up by the American Dental Education Association (formerly the American Association of Dental Schools) is http://www.adea.org/.

This site also provides information on the DAT, the AADSAS application procedures and specific requirements of the various dental schools.

You might also want to look at the web site for Marquette's School of Dentistry at http://www.dental.mu.edu/. Click on "Links" for a listing of U.S. dental schools.

A Word of Caution

Except for those sites established by the Association of American Colleges, the American Dental Education Association and those by the various professional schools, all other sites essentially represent information garnered by people using these sources or the subjective thoughts and observations of persons involved in the advising process. No web site guarantees that following their advice will assure you of successful admission to the professional school or program in which you are interested.