How to pass the MCAT with a humanities degree?

Mitchell Pickens: If you haven't taken the pre-med required courses in college, most medical schools won't even look at your application. They generally require 1 year each of biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and English, and some also require biochem or psychology. If you didn't take all of those courses in college, you should look into a post-bacc program where you spend one year taking all of them in preparation for medical school. That kind of program would prepare you for the MCAT as well....Show more

Ardath Templer: It would be difficult, but not impossible, for you to do medical school.Check the various universities' requirements- although most in the US want courses including biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry and physics, many medical schools in Canada have no premed course requirements. As such, I would highly recommend taking a look into Canadian med schools. You will, however, need to write the MCAT. The MCAT is deeply b! ased in the sciences. You can take prep courses for the test, which are very helpful. Organizations like Prep101 and Princeton Review offer them in different cities. Also, as a clarification for someone else who answered this question saying that McMaster does not require the MCAT, that is not true. McMaster requires the MCAT, but they only look at the verbal reasoning score and do not take into consideration the other three sections of the rest. However, McMaster has their own admissions test type thing called Casper, and you would have to do that online if you are looking to apply there.It will definitely be a lot of work but so what? Anything worth doing requires hard work and dedication....Show more

Sammy Hatzenbihler: Very difficult. Some schools won't even look at you without a related life sciences degree. And the MCAT really does require a whole lot of deep understanding of biology, chemistry, math, etc. High school doesn't cut it.One option would be McMas! ter University in Hamilton, Canada. They're very unique in no! t even requiring the MCAT, and do problem-based learning in medicine, so as long as you're self-motivated to learn and solve medical problems you can actually go through alright.But if you're just thinking about this and not willing to put in the huge amount of work required to catch up, stop thinking about this, or start back at square one....Show more

Bryant Pillitteri: That's difficult but not impossible. You just take a good prep course for the MCAT and try your best to ace it really, but most medical schools dont require you to have a BSc, because really the MCAT just is truly testing you on how good of a problem solver you are, or so my profs have told me. And just do really well during your interviews and really show your interest in medical.