{"id":812,"date":"2008-07-30T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=812"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:42:29","slug":"when-i-grow-up-i-wanna-be-a-doctor-and-a-businessman-and-a-physiotherapist-and-a-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"When I grow up I wanna be a doctor and a businessman and a physiotherapist and a princess!"},"content":{"rendered":"

hey aska. is it possible to take classes and\/or dual major across faculties? So can a life science student dual major or take classes with kinisieology or commerce? oh and have you heard any good things about the physical education and health program? I was planning on maybe doing that instead of the traditional life science premed route. Do people get into med school from that program and is it hard to keep up a high gpa?? thanks <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hmmm? So it goes like this:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For the Kinesiology undergrad degree (that?s not exactly how it?s called, but still) you?ll have to apply to the <\/span>Faculty of Phys Ed and Health<\/span><\/a>. If you want to combine courses from Arts & Science, and eventually add a minor in Life Science, you can (you can also add a major, but most people don?t go that far). If you want to get more info about that faculty?s programs contact <\/span>this guy<\/span><\/a>. Just note that for the undergraduate degree you will be registered in a single faculty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What is specifically important for med-school is achieving a high mark on your <\/span>MCAT<\/span>. I have no idea if going for the Phys Ed+Life Science major path will increase your chances of achieving that mark. But what I do know is that you don?t need an MD to be a kinesiologist. In general, the Phys-Ed program is more career-oriented than the A&S Life-Sci degree. You need to look into what the MCAT consists of, and browse med school program sites to see what the requirements are. Different institutions may have different demands. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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As for the <\/span>Commerce program<\/span><\/a>, it?s part of A&S, but has specific requirements, and costs more. It may be possible to combine it with a life science program (as a double major), however:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. You wouldn?t be graduating with a B.Com degree, which requires you to be enrolled in a Commerce Specialist program.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Commerce program costs more than a regular A&S program, and most students prefer to take a specialist and complete a B.Com degree if they?re already paying that much for tuition.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Even if you?re able to pull off taking all the required courses for both programs within 4 years (which is somewhat unlikely), your schedule will be hell on earth, and at some point you?ll <\/span>internally combust<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    So it all comes down to this: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Do you want to mix these programs in order to achieve a higher GPA? Take less Life Science courses? Or is it to keep your career options open in case you don?t qualify for med-school? If you?re really serious about med-school, you should dig into the subject and do some serious research about qualifications and stuff. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Maybe this can help: Since med schools don?t necessarily require a life-sci undergrad degree, you should ask yourself- Even if I don?t get into med-school, what would I have chosen to study anyway (I didn?t make that one up)? ?Just remember <\/span>the bird in the hand<\/span><\/a>? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    hey aska. is it possible to take classes and\/or dual major across faculties? So can a life science student dual major or take classes with kinisieology or commerce? oh and have you heard any good things about the physical education and health program? I was planning on maybe doing that instead of the traditional life science premed route. Do people get into med school from that program and is it hard to keep up a high gpa?? thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,110,112,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-life-science","category-med-school","category-phys-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}