Student Profile: Amanda Bishop
Amanda Bishop came to Alma College for the soccer program and discovered the exercise and health science major was a great way to prepare for medical school.
“The EHS major has helped me understand a lot of the physiological aspects of the human body,” she says, “and has given me a strong base for subjects I'll be learning as a medical student.”
The Goodrich senior has minors in Spanish and chemistry and traveled to Ecuador in the summer of 2008 for a spring term class.
“I have grown a lot at Alma, and it is due to the people I have met, the organizations I am a part of and the classes I have taken,” she says.
In addition to her studies, Bishop is involved in a number of campus organizations, including Phi Sigma Sigma, Alpha Phi Omega, honorary societies for chemistry and EHS and alternative spring breaks.
Off campus she is a hospice volunteer and is training to be a certified nursing assistant.
“There are other programs that also could have prepared me just as adequately for medical school, but I wouldn't trade my experience with EHS for the world!” she says.
