starrynight Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 hi guys! Okay so I am going to start the IB Diploma soon and need to chose my subjects...I want to go into the medicine field and i am planning on going to University in the US. Here is what I am planning:Group 1: English A slGroup 2: French B slGroup 3: History hlGroup 4: Biology hl and chemistry hlGroup 5: Mathematics slAny information on these courses would be amazing. Will these subjects be good for going to medicine? Please and Thank you!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliahernandezg Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hello..your choice is perfect, I also want to go into medicine and I recommend you to choose Psychology instead of history (although is up to you) Im not really an expert in the IB diploma cause I started only 6 months ago, but psychology really turns out to show topics related to medicine career. Hope this is useful (remember its really your own choose, do what you think its best for you) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib1123 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 hi guys! Okay so I am going to start the IB Diploma soon and need to chose my subjects...I want to go into the medicine field and i am planning on going to University in the US. Here is what I am planning:Group 1: English A slGroup 2: French B slGroup 3: History hlGroup 4: Biology hl and chemistry hlGroup 5: Mathematics slAny information on these courses would be amazing. Will these subjects be good for going to medicine? Please and Thank you!!As juliahernandezg said, these subjects will be fine for applying for medicine.I recommend you to choose Psychology instead of history (although is up to you) Im not really an expert in the IB diploma cause I started only 6 months ago, but psychology really turns out to show topics related to medicine career. Regarding doing psychology instead of history, however, I would not advise this decision purely based on the fact that psychology incorporates more medical aspects. If you feel you can do just as well in both psychology and history, then perhaps psychology is the way to go. However, if you enjoy history more, or if you think you can perform better in history, I would opt for that. The reason for this is that, at the end of the day, it's your marks which will decide whether or not you're admitted into medicine moreso than your subject selection. If you're more likely to get the pre-requisite marks doing history, then this is what I would decide on. In fact, this goes for your entire subject selection. Decide where you want to study medicine, then find out what their prerequisite subjects are - most tertiary institutions actually no longer have prerequisites, and if they do, it's often Chemistry alone, without even Biology. You need to check this though.Once you have established what the prerequisites are, decide the rest of your subjects based on what will facilitate your best performance - this is most often derived from what you enjoy the most. It's all well and good to do 'sciency' subjects or subjects which have medical content in them, but if you can't perform well in those subjects, then the universities don't care - they want to see good marks, largely regardless of subject. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 Yeah, i am pretty sure that these subjects are fine for medicine. I would also suggest taking Psychology as it is sort of related to medicine (at least more than history)... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjy Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 History HL is fine for Medicine. A girl in my school did those EXACT subjects and got into some top UK universities for med. Go for history, it's brilliant. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sameera95 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 I know a girl applying to Cambridge for medicine and she's taking HL bio chem and history so it doesn't matter really if you do history or psychology, but it's up to you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ryuk1 Posted January 13, 2014 Report Share Posted January 13, 2014 They don't care about which group 3 you take so take one that you're interested in and believe that you can score a 7 . You're lucky to have history and psychology offered Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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