Pre-Health Recommended Course Sequence

Four-Year Sequence for Non-Science Majors 

Pre-Med, Pre-Dent, Pre-Vet

Overseas for One Semester

* Chem 121 is always taught in summer school at Pepperdine (first 2 blocks). Physics 203 is usually taught in summer school as well.

Medical schools love non-science majors. Pepperdine students have more frequently chosen economics, political science, music, liberal arts, Spanish, business, philosophy, and English as majors. But, it is very important for you to choose the one you like best. The only one that will not work is art (not art history) because of the times their classes are offered assuming that you want to take your science classes at Pepperdine. Also business has 60 units for its major. 

Courses in italics are offered every semester at Pepperdine. 

Overseas for Two Semesters

** These courses have to be taken at another university. Onestop has applications that you can submit to see if the course you want to take will count for our course here. Physics 203 is usually taught during summer school at Pepperdine but you have to have had taken Physics 202 first.

Overall goals here are the following:

1. Avoid taking three science classes with labs in one semester.
2. Arrange classes so that all of the needed ones for the MCAT are taken before taking the MCAT (normally taken in the spring of the junior year (May) but can be taken after senior year if the student takes a year off before matriculating.)
3. Arrange classes so that the best grades (highest overall and science GPA) can be achieved.
4. If you are going overseas, science classes must be taken in the summer (normally somewhere else) in order to keep on track. Take these classes at best the possible schools in order to learn the material at a high level and impress med schools with your good grades from UCLA, Stanford, etc.
5. Be well prepared for med school. The two hardest classes in med school are human anatomy and biochemistry.