Do different degrees make a difference?

[slick90210]

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Hey guys!

So intent to register is around the corner for me and i'm stuck...again. To help explain, my options are Microbiology & Immunology, Pharmacology & Toxicology or Biology.

I cannot decide between a Medical Science degree or Biology degree. The medical science degrees have more work -lower marks- while the biology degree is just... biology -higher marks-.

Do the adcoms take into account the different science degrees? Would they look highly upon me if I had a Microbio degree?

The second part of my questions is regarding Specialization vs Honors Specialization. I am not 100% if this is relevant to degrees in the states but in Canada an honors specialization degree would include a 1.5 credit research thesis project in 4th year while specialization would normally exclude it. I WOULD do the honors if it gave me any leverage but if it were my choice i'd run as far as I can from it.

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[scottyhoop]

as far as I know, all degrees are looked at equally. Just do all the prereqs and get good grades. I have a music degree and if you look around lots of others here have non-science degrees as well. Best of luck!
Scott

 

[DailyDrivenTJ]

I have engineering degree and work experience. My interviewer at UPenn told me that there are two majors that are easier to teach hands on skills, art majors and engineers.

 

[sajjy]

I have engineering degree and work experience. My interviewer at UPenn told me that there are two majors that are easier to teach hands on skills, art majors and engineers.

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wherever you are...do anything in which you will excel

 

[jjash]

I am a microbiology major and I love it. It covers all the pre-reqs accept Anatomy and psychology. I have been tested on the same thing over and over in all of my classes. I often laugh at how similar everything is and also now that I'm in my senior year I can just sit back and relax. Some cool classes too like parasitology, pathology and viralogy. Biology is kind of ok i guess accept I don't enjoy learning about any other animals accept humans. Why would I want to know the anatomy of a frog?

 

[doc toothache]

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