Rutgers Undergrad / MD 7 Year Degree Information Sessions
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There is also a six-year program for law. No student should do this. First, the extra year to mature is very helpful. Second, the student is gambling that what he or she is interested in as a freshman will also interest him or her six or seven years later. Third, the student will be taking fewer undergraduate courses, and so will be less prepared for the professional school. Fourth, the student is giving up the opportunity to go to a better school (this is particularly true in law, unfortunately) if the student does well as an undergrad.
Can't like this enough. I'd say this holds for business school too, but there it's more to get working experience first, not just finish undergrad and get started with the advanced degree. Of course, with higher ed costs skyrocketing, accelerated programs do have a certain allure of getting to the ultimate finish line with overall less $ spent on tuition.
To each his own. Every student has their own timetable for what they want to do and every family has a different economic situation. Nothing says a kid could not take a path for a few years , pre med students taking science classes or pre law students maybe taking lots of history and political science classes, and then maybe deciding they want to do something else like teach. Remember, Rutgers Education degree is a five year program anyway with students majoring in a certain area, say History or Biology, and then starting the Education aspect of the degree.CamdenLaw you would know what options are out there for pre law kids who change their minds a lot more than I . As for pre Med kids who decide not to become Doctors, lots of other health areas they could go into with all their science courses—Nursing, Dentistry,Pharmacy, Physician Assistant,etc. Now if a Pre Med kid or Pre Law kid decides after a few years, they want to go into Art History or Italian, then I can’t help you. lol
