Does this work well? What would the work load be like? Do med-schools care about a non-science major? Thanks!
Any thoughts on pre-med with political science major?
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Schools love "diversity." It doesn't matter what your major is as long as you take the pre-med courses and do well in them. You should also do well in your major. How much of a workload it is depends on the courses you take. You could have weeks where you have hundreds of pages of readings on top of problem sets for your pre-med science courses. You just have to find the right balance. When you study for the MCAT, you might have to put some extra time in since you don't spend the majority of your day thinking about science or reading science journal articles so you'll have to get used to interpreting scientific data.
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The major reasons most pre-meds do a science major is...
1) Doing a traditional science major helps knock out a lot of pre-reqs.
2) Doing a traditional science major provides a buffer for your science GPA - I.E. Bio/chem/math majors take so many classes that are incorporated into their science GPA, ergo if you mess up a class or two it may not impact your sGPA as much.
However, being a doc is about more than knowing your biology.
That being said I think it is advantageous to pursue a non-science degree to make yourself a more worldly person.
The hospital environment is shrouded with politics. Pursuing a degree in political science will most certainly improve your ability to navigate said environment.
In terms of workload- If you plan on taking this route, you should definitely complete some upper level bio classes in addition to the already established pre-reqs.
Also, make sure you rock the science classes you take, because you don't have that same buffer that traditional students have.
So you will really have to juggle three sets of classes - General Education Requirements, Pre-Med Requirements + Upper Level Bios, Political Science Major Requirements.
I don't believe that a medical school will frown on you having pursued a non-science major, as long as you keep your GPAs (Science and Cumulative) on fleek.
I have friends who have done philosophy, anthropology, english/journalism, psychology/neuroscience, economics, foreign language degrees and gotten into great schools around the country.
Hope this was helpful, goodluck 👍.
1) Doing a traditional science major helps knock out a lot of pre-reqs.
2) Doing a traditional science major provides a buffer for your science GPA - I.E. Bio/chem/math majors take so many classes that are incorporated into their science GPA, ergo if you mess up a class or two it may not impact your sGPA as much.
However, being a doc is about more than knowing your biology.
That being said I think it is advantageous to pursue a non-science degree to make yourself a more worldly person.
The hospital environment is shrouded with politics. Pursuing a degree in political science will most certainly improve your ability to navigate said environment.
In terms of workload- If you plan on taking this route, you should definitely complete some upper level bio classes in addition to the already established pre-reqs.
Also, make sure you rock the science classes you take, because you don't have that same buffer that traditional students have.
So you will really have to juggle three sets of classes - General Education Requirements, Pre-Med Requirements + Upper Level Bios, Political Science Major Requirements.
I don't believe that a medical school will frown on you having pursued a non-science major, as long as you keep your GPAs (Science and Cumulative) on fleek.
I have friends who have done philosophy, anthropology, english/journalism, psychology/neuroscience, economics, foreign language degrees and gotten into great schools around the country.
Hope this was helpful, goodluck 👍.
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Just do well in your classes and it won't matter.
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Major into what-eva. I'm majoring in Geography/Earth Science.
One thing to keep in mind is that you won't have much upper division science courses to improve your sGPA.
So you have to go out of your major upper-div requirement to take science courses!!
One thing to keep in mind is that you won't have much upper division science courses to improve your sGPA.
So you have to go out of your major upper-div requirement to take science courses!!
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Major in what ever you want.
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I was thinking about doing the same exact thing! Do you have any updates on how it has been for you?
