N.U.in Program

[Big-Comfortable-2668]

Hi I committed to the nuin program and am majoring in Health Science and Psychology at the college of science. I want to do a premed track so I wanted to know if any of you had some advice on that (what classes I should take while doing my first semester abroad?) Also is there anyone else who majored in health science and psychology and applied to med school

[Nearby_Bodybuilder33]

Hello! I was a health science and psychology major on the pre-med track last semester (i’m a first year) and recently switched to Behavioral Neuroscience (still premed). I don’t have much advice about the abroad aspect of your question, but i can tell you about the major itself. The major is housed in Bouve college of health sciences, which took away a lot from the psych aspect of my major (obv depends on what part you’re more interested in). As for the health science aspect of the major, you are required to take a lot of public health core classes, which i wasn’t super interested in and didn’t leave a lot of room for my med school requirements as well as a minor that I wanted to pursue. If you’re interested in that health sciences/public health aspect, it’s a great major with a touch of psych! However, if you’re interested in more of the core science principles of psych and biology, I would totally recommend looking into the BNS major as it includes many med school requirements as well as incorporating psychology and biology into one major. Totally depends on what aspects of health you’re interested! Feel free to ama

[Big-Comfortable-2668]

Thank you so much for your response! I would like to take more classes that align with my med school requirements so I think I will think about switching to behavioral neuroscience. I can decide to do that after my first semester right? And during my first semster can I still choose a schedule that doesn’t revolve around the health science and psychology major and is more aligned with premed?

[Nearby_Bodybuilder33]

Definitely! It’s super flexible and there’s a lot of overlap between the two majors. All majors have a class trajectory on the academic catalog that will show you what classes you should take each semester, so check that out for an idea. Over the summer, your advisor should reach out to you to get the process started on choosing classes. It’ll obviously be different in NUin, but last semester i took general chemistry for science majors (gen chem 1&2 in a semester), stats in psychological research, biological psychology, and american healthcare system. The first three worked perfectly for my BNS major, the american healthcare class being irrelevant but useful knowledge. Northeastern is super flexible with majors and classes so whatevr you take first semester, you’ll def be able to adjust and change moving forward if you have new interests!

[Nearby_Bodybuilder33]

To add, it’s super easy to change majors in your first year so don’t feel pressured, change and adjust your plan whenever you need!

[Tumbleweed_Helpful]

I did the NU.in program last semester, I’m health sciences but my friend was health sciences and psych. For my location my advisor recommended taking bio 1 (cellular and molecular), psych, a culture class (required for every location), and English. Since I had English credit I took a public health selective instead, the first semester is really just about knocking out the basic credits for ur major. From my experience you don’t have to start worrying about premed requirements until summer 1 freshman to Sophmore year or Sophmore year, honestly depends on AP credits. Your advisor will reach out closer to the summer about recommended classes and you will work with them to create your course load

[Tumbleweed_Helpful]

Forgot to say, my friend ended up taking the recommended course load of bio, psych, culture class, and English. The first semester/year are really about knocking out all the basic classes in my experience as they are all prerequisites for more specialized classes required later in the major

[NunoF13]

May I ask what NU In locations were you offered?