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Hi, SDN --
Long story short, I used to be only a philosophy major, and am now staring down a fork in the road between an added General Science BA or Chemistry BA. I wouldn't mind having a lengthy BS in, say, Computer Science. But I've tried a lot of career paths in my undergraduate career, and it'll require six years in undergrad for these degrees alone. Those two degrees are the fastest I can scrap together.
I much prefer General Science because the requirements are so diverse. I get to take things I like and I believe to be useful, rather than take chemistry courses for which I have little interest (I.e. Neuroscience, programming, etc).
But my advisor has said twice now, "The caveat of a General Science degree is that you are not fit for graduate school -- only medical school."
This makes little sense to me. As long as I fill my degree with "legitimate courses" -- like opting for Calculus I and II instead of an easy math sequence, for example -- and take courses that are useful for my graduate school interests -- taking programming for future work in a neuroscience lab, for example -- what does it matter?
Opinions?
Long story short, I used to be only a philosophy major, and am now staring down a fork in the road between an added General Science BA or Chemistry BA. I wouldn't mind having a lengthy BS in, say, Computer Science. But I've tried a lot of career paths in my undergraduate career, and it'll require six years in undergrad for these degrees alone. Those two degrees are the fastest I can scrap together.
I much prefer General Science because the requirements are so diverse. I get to take things I like and I believe to be useful, rather than take chemistry courses for which I have little interest (I.e. Neuroscience, programming, etc).
But my advisor has said twice now, "The caveat of a General Science degree is that you are not fit for graduate school -- only medical school."
This makes little sense to me. As long as I fill my degree with "legitimate courses" -- like opting for Calculus I and II instead of an easy math sequence, for example -- and take courses that are useful for my graduate school interests -- taking programming for future work in a neuroscience lab, for example -- what does it matter?
Opinions?