How will my major affect me?

[raych123]

I am a general science major and am projected to graduate on time this year. I wondering if becoming a biology major would help me a lot to get into medical school. That would require me to take an extra quarter or two... Is it worth it?

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[Conflagration]

Your major doesn't really matter. Hell, I'm a math major.

As long as you do your pre-requisites, and you have a solid GPA, it doesn't matter. There's people on here who were English majors and got in.

Just do your best!

 

[Goro]

We don't care about majors or minors, only that you do well.

I am a general science major and am projected to graduate on time this year. I wondering if becoming a biology major would help me a lot to get into medical school. That would require me to take an extra quarter or two... Is it worth it?

 

[gyngyn]

We really don't care.

 

[itsthat1guy]

What is a general science major

 

[Conflagration]

What is a general science major

I suppose it's sort of like a college thing; you know, how some have a college of arts and sciences, and a generalist degree is known as a "liberal arts major". Except, in their case, there's a separate college of science, and the general degree is a "general science major".

 

[raych123]

I suppose it's sort of like a college thing; you know, how some have a college of arts and sciences, and a generalist degree is known as a "liberal arts major". Except, in their case, there's a separate college of science, and the general degree is a "general science major".

Right
So I still take all the premed required classes as part of my major requirements and then some higher level bio classes - (cell and microbiology, anatomy of the vertebrates, genetics,..) computer science class, etc.

 

[Conflagration]

Changing the major isn't going to mean much; the only case I'd advocate that you should switch majors is if you were below a 3.4 and you had funding secured for however long you needed for a degree. Such a hypothetical is really unlikely, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Just do well on your pre-req's.

 

[raych123]

Changing the major isn't going to mean much; the only case I'd advocate that you should switch majors is if you were below a 3.4 and you had funding secured for however long you needed for a degree. Such a hypothetical is really unlikely, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Just do well on your pre-req's.

Thank you! I appreciate everyone's responses!

 

[deleted642188]

Your bachelors is negligible. my school's med school admission adviser told me the admission committees have turned Ivy-League-Biology/Chemistry/CompSci-major applicants who've interned at NASA or Google (PRE-INTERVIEW); however, they've accepted a violinist/music major. My advice is don't worry about your discipline; do the Prerequisites - try to fit Biochem because it's practically an unofficial prerequisite - and do a couple of recommended classes like genetics, statistics, microbiology, immunology, etc. Lastly, to reiterate everyone else, work on ECs, too.

Good Luck!

 

[zaben]

I used to say that your major does not matter at all....but I think it really depends on the school/interviewer. I know some of my interviewers seemed to want to talk about my major quite a bit and at other interviews it never came up. I really think that picking a more unique major is kind of an advantage. Assuming same GPA, the unique major gives the slight edge because uniqueness is all the rage these days.