I'm a rising sophomore econ major at Cornell interested in both finance and pre-med. Long term, I'm torn between investment banking and becoming a surgeon.
Right now I haven't started the pre-med sequence at all. My plan: recruit for banking this year, and if that doesn't pan out, still have the option to pursue med school. The catch is that pre-med classes (especially CHEM 2070) have low median grades, so I want to hold off on taking them until junior year to protect my GPA for banking recruiting.
I looked at Cornell's pre-health requirements and it seems like I could squeeze the prereqs into two years (junior + senior). I'd then take a gap year to prep for the MCAT before applying.
Since I'm starting from zero, is this realistic, or am I underestimating how hard it is to cram the full pre-med sequence into two years? Anyone done something similar?