The subjects in which many premedical students obtain advanced placement are English, history, mathematics and chemistry. The student with a good high school background and high aptitude in chemistry is encouraged to elect this more rigorous sequence if scores on the placement test are sufficiently high to qualify for advanced general chemistry. Alpha Epsilon Delta Alpha Epsilon Delta, the premedical honor society, has a large and active chapter at the University of Georgia. Membership in AED is extended to those students who maintain a strong academic record in a premedical or predental program, hence it is meant to recognize superior scholarship. However, AED also provides a number of informative programs and services to students in the prehealth sciences.
Meetings are open to all students, including freshmen.
Bids are mailed to those students with the required academic credentials who can be identified as premedical or predental students in the spring semester. If you have the necessary credentials and do not receive a bid, contact the Premedical Studies Office. AED provides a number of services to students in the prehealth sciences, such as sponsoring guest speakers including physicians, medical educators, medical students, etc., who present informative programs on their particular medical specialty, medical school, medical research or other topics of interest. In program planning particular emphasis is placed on admissions. AED also plans and underwrites the cost of field trips to the instate medical schools.