Required and Recommended Courses
Although you’re not required to earn a bachelor’s degree in one of the sciences for admission to our school, you must complete at least half of the prerequisite courses before applying—and, if accepted, complete the balance before you matriculate.
Required Courses
You must take the following undergraduate courses:
- Biology with a lab (with not more than one semester of botany): 2 semesters
- Chemistry with a lab: 2 semesters
- Organic chemistry with a lab: 2 semesters
- General physics (lab optional): 2 semesters
- English: 2 semesters
Recommended Courses
We encourage you to augment your prerequisite courses with instruction in the following:
Social Sciences
We recommend that you take four courses in this discipline, considered as important for prospective medical students as those in the physical and biological sciences.
Humanities
In addition to the prerequisite English courses, we recommend that you take two humanities courses.
Additional Courses
Based on our curriculum, we strongly encourage you to take a statistics course as well as courses in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.
