Question by : How am I going to get into med school?
So basically, I go to a school where we take all AP classes by default and we actually finish all our high school requirements in 2 years. It’s a really unusual scenario, and it’s extremely selective but I was lucky enough to get in 3 years ago: I’m a junior now. It’s about that time of relaxation on spring break, so I’ve been looking more and more into choosing colleges. Now, naturally, the first half of the year I’d paid no attention to them for fear of deterring my focus from my SAT’s (which I did decently on), as well as my coursework. Now that the heavy searching is underway, a lot of questions rise from this…
We do all our high school requirements in 2 years, and for the next 2 years, we do all college courses and get an entirely separate GPA. I’m in the midst of that right now. Therefore, I actually graduate my 4 years of high school with an Associate’s. I live in New York, so I have to transfer to either a SUNY or CUNY school for my credits to be accepted and I can transfer as a junior to my undergraduate college, which is incredible. Now, I know the questions I’m about to ask might be better suited towards my school’s guidance program, but I’m on spring break and will be for another week… Therefore, I just wanna hear what you guys think of it first.
So, my question is: I may want to major in psychology for undergrad and move onto psychiatry for grad school. Obviously, for psychiatry, I need to do premed requirements, and I’m not sure how that’ll work considering I only have 2 years to fill out those requirements. So, any idea how this would work, if any of you have been in a similar situation?
Second question is: I may be looking too far ahead, but to apply for grad school, isn’t the bulk of the searching done parallel to the high school process? In other words, look at colleges in mainly your junior year and summer and apply in the senior year? So, if that were to be the case, would I just submit a year’s worth of grades…? I doubt they’d wanna see my high school (well, “college” grades)… I just don’t know if they’d accept that, which relates back to only having a year before I apply to get all my premed requirements done.. Makes me kinda nervous and I think you can see why.
So if any of you have any thoughts or insights onto this or have been in similar situations yourselves and can answer this, please do, it’ll be much appreciated. 
EDIT:
DaniBaje: Thank you, that really helps a lot. I’ve already done biology, English, and Calculus with my coursework, leaving organic chem, chem with lab, and physics with lab. So I guess I’m on pace considering this would be my “Freshman” year in college.
Kyle Busch: While I don’t expect any sympathy or “sugar coated” answers, I don’t appreciate your sarcasm/arrogance towards my situation. I would tell you the name of my school, but for fear of my privacy and safety and some people on this site, I’ll refrain from doing so. But I can assure you that if I gave you the name of my school, you’ll find that what I’m saying is true – we *do* in fact graduate in 2 years and finish with an associates. I know it’s out of place and extremely unusual and perhaps hard to believe, but it’s completely true and I’m 100% certain of it. Therefore, now that that’s out of the way, I would Google this answer but unfortunately, 99.9% of
People don’t have this problem.
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Answer by DaniBaje
You don’t move onto psychiatry for grad school. You would attend medical school with hopes of doing a psychiatry residency afterwards. There is no guarantee of doing a psychiatry residency even if you do make it into medical school.
The commonly accepted coursework requirements for medical school include a minimum of 1 year of:
General biology
Physics with lab
General chemistry (inorganic chemistry) with lab
Organic chemistry with lab
Calculus
English
You can complete these requirements in 2 years, however along with your psychology requirements it would most likely take 3 years.
Kyle Busch is incorrect. Psychiatrists are medical doctors and have MD/DO degrees. Psychologists have PhD/PsyD degrees
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