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Deciding between Med Rad Sci and Life Sci Options
aviaf
Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:04:25 PM
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hey, I've received acceptances into Life Sciences and Medical Radiation Sciences and I really need some help.

I'm divided over which to attend. I want to continue after my 4 years undergrad and go into medical school and after that specialize and become a radiologist.

I know that MRS has several courses missing that would stop me from being able to apply to all medical schools and limits me only to a couple (like Mac and such). Also, it is very oriented to a practical knowledge aspect rather than theoretical.

However, I don't wish to go into life sciences because of the competitiveness in the program, and the harder work I'll have to do to get a good GPA.

MRS already has a selected number of students from the beginning (acceptances), and I have heard (although you do have to work hard) that the marks are pretty good.

The one problem I have is if I would have time and if i could handle taking extra courses in the first year summer to catch up in missing courses so that i can apply to more med schools, because i dont want to have to stay an extra year to catch up.

thx a lot for any advice

p.s. I hoped to solve this by getting into health sci, but unfortunately I did not get in

p.p.s. Also, in life sci, don't they cut down the students each year? so won't i have a risk of being booted out as well?
mynameismattgotmlgo
Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:12:02 PM
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http://forums.studentawards.com/yaf_postst2351_Queens-Xray-and-Life-Sciences.aspx

Just because a program seems harder, doesn't mean you will have greater difficulty in it. I take courses in both science and social science (you would expect that I would do better in my social science courses because everyone knows science is harder than social science), but I do better in science because I am a real scientific thinker and I can't stand reading textbooks (reading textbooks is commonplace in social science, not so commonplace in science). I am not saying that you will have an easier time in science than MRS; I'm just saying that you can't really say which you will do better in simply on the basis of how difficult you think each program is. And just knowing that the marks are good won't tell you everything. My class average for a lab course was 79%. Oh well, it must be easy, right? Not really... the required first and second year course average to get into that course was 82%! The course wasn't easy... the people in the course were just good students. Not to mention that you have only "heard" that the class averages were high...

Plus science is not a lot of work to begin with, especially after first year.

Trust me, you'll be most satisfied if you choose the program on the basis of your interests, not which you think will be easy or even which you THINK will be best for getting into med school.

Honours BMSc Specialization in Medical Science UWO '09
Bachelor of Pharmacy Alberta '13 ???
malilini
Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:48:29 PM

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aviaf wrote:

I know that MRS has several courses missing that would stop me from being able to apply to all medical schools and limits me only to a couple (like Mac and such). Also, it is very oriented to a practical knowledge aspect rather than theoretical.


I think you've answered it for yourself here.

Where do you see yourself in the future? If you really want med-school, MRS is clearly not the choice.
If you want to work right after university, it just might be the right choice because of the emphasis on practical knowledge.

Also, look into the possible transfer from LifeSci to MRS. How many courses would you have to compensate for? Go with the "most common" option at first (the option that can lead you to the most paths you're considering, not the most common choice of students) and then narrow it down as you develop more solid preferences.


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