Changing majors during junior year

[nali1]

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I'm currently a Junior with a focus in bio/pre-health. Back as a freshman I thought I HAD to a biology major to get into a grad school. But now, two years and 5 semesters later I still want to do pre-health( keeping my options open), but I feel like I could be enjoying a different major much more then biology (3.0 gpa).
So my question is: how would it look to adcoms if I change my major to execise phys this late into my college career (a lot of the classes are overlapping so I already have small chunk of the classes knocked out). Don't get me wrong, I like biology, but I'm sure I will enjoy exercise phys much more.



If I get the GPA up to 3.3-3.4 and a competitive MCAT score..what are my chances at getting into a top program...what ARE some top programs?

 

[that1guyfromFL]

It won't matter.

Do well in whatever coursework you take and score well on the MCAT.


"Top" school designations are debated here often enough, you shouldn't have a problem finding all the information you could want if you run a quick search.

 

[dtrack22]

Not an issue IMO. Schools will have no idea that you switched majors, and many programs (in any medical field) tend to look highly upon non-science majors who do well on the MCATS and apply...they believe these students are more "well rounded" (at least thats what you always seem to hear). Wether or not they think that about your app doesn't really matter. Focus on getting good grades (especially in any pre-req classes for pod school) and do well on the MCAT. Worrying about switching majors would be like worrying about H1N1 when you already have some sort of terminal cancer

 

[Sig Savant]

I agree ^. I changed my major junior year, no one ever knew. Adcoms wondered why I had some off the wall classes, but thats easily explainable. And to fix dtrack's statement, Worrying about switching majors would be like worrying about H1N1 at all.

 

[dtrack22]

And to fix dtrack's statement, Worrying about switching majors would be like worrying about H1N1 at all

Good call Sig