- Apr 25, 2019
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I wanted to start a separate thread from the engineering and nursing threads in order to specifically highlight a pre-med track.
Just some background, my 2025 DD wants to go to go pre-med. She also plays on a national level team that plays a pretty loaded schedule. When talking about majors, she would love to go pre-med but we have heard time and time again that most D1's will tell you that it's not possible with the workload involved with athletes. So, if given the opportunity to play with a P5 school, she was planning on majoring in something like Biology and just trying to take the MCAT afterwards. Well, this weekend, my DD attended a camp she was invited to at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA (pronounced nack-uh-dish). The coaches loved her and wanted all of her contact information, schedule, etc. The camp had some drills, scrimmages, and a campus tour. During the campus/facilities tour, one of the current players mentioned that she was on a pre-med track. Well this instantly caught my DD's attention and she talked with her for 15 solid minutes about various things with the major. The current player, a senior, said that she was a TA for 2 different chem courses in addition to being pre-med and playing softball. So it sounds like it could be possible. Maybe just not in P5 schools.
Anyways, I wanted to start a thread about it because it's not possible to Google "D1 schools with softball that allow pre-med students"....lol. So I'll start the list....
Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, LA) D1 Southland Conference
Just some background, my 2025 DD wants to go to go pre-med. She also plays on a national level team that plays a pretty loaded schedule. When talking about majors, she would love to go pre-med but we have heard time and time again that most D1's will tell you that it's not possible with the workload involved with athletes. So, if given the opportunity to play with a P5 school, she was planning on majoring in something like Biology and just trying to take the MCAT afterwards. Well, this weekend, my DD attended a camp she was invited to at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA (pronounced nack-uh-dish). The coaches loved her and wanted all of her contact information, schedule, etc. The camp had some drills, scrimmages, and a campus tour. During the campus/facilities tour, one of the current players mentioned that she was on a pre-med track. Well this instantly caught my DD's attention and she talked with her for 15 solid minutes about various things with the major. The current player, a senior, said that she was a TA for 2 different chem courses in addition to being pre-med and playing softball. So it sounds like it could be possible. Maybe just not in P5 schools.
Anyways, I wanted to start a thread about it because it's not possible to Google "D1 schools with softball that allow pre-med students"....lol. So I'll start the list....
Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, LA) D1 Southland Conference
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