Dental school with Nursing Degree?

Will I be able to go to Medical school with a bachelor's degree in Science in Nursing?

• Hey, I'm a junior in high school and I'm currently thinking about career options in the future. I really want to be a psychiatrist. And I am aware that you need to finish 4 years of college to get a bachelor's degree, then 4 years of medical school and then 4 years of residency. But if I do the usual pre-med with let's say, a psychology or any of the sciences major, and I DO NOT get into medical school. I don't think I can do much with a biology, chemistry, etc. bachelor's degree. My question is that if I don't take the pre-med route, and do a bachelor's degree in science in nursing, will I still be able to go to Medical school? Because if I don't get into medical school, I will still have my bachelor's degree in Nursing and I can be a nurse instead of taking a biology major and doing nothing with that.

• Answer:

  Hi Caleb, A degree in nursing as a pre-med major is a good choice as it will help with a job should you not gain admission to medical school and you will gain first-hand knowledge about the medical profession. The issue you may face, because a nursing degree is a technical and professional degree, is taking the prerequisite courses that are not a part of your nursing degree such as physics and additional chemistry courses. This may mean you spend another year in school to complete the required prerequisites for medical school. One way to help ease this demand on you will be taking biology, chemistry, physics, and calculus as AP course then hopefully scoring at least a 4 or better yet a 5 on the tests. Along with taking AP courses you should begin researching schools that have similar prerequisites to your nursing degree so that you are not taking many additional courses so that you can meet admission to medical school.