Double Major

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Does anyone know if a double major (genetics and environmental health) and a minor in spanish is more beneficial than say one major (genetics) and two minors (environmental health and spanish)?

 

[mr burrito]

i really doubt it makes any difference.

 

[CardiacIntensivist]

There was a thread about this last year I believe. If I remember correctly, if you are going to have two majors, do two very opposite majors.

 

[apnea]

...like ballet and microbiology?

 

[ryandote]

There was a thread about this last year I believe. If I remember correctly, if you are going to have two majors, do two very opposite majors.

Also, if one of those majors is biology or something very close to biology (I don't know what is required at your school for a degree in genetics) than it isn't too much better than just doing the pre-reqs.

 

[colbgw02]

They don't care of what your major is, so they also don't care what your double major is. The same goes for minors. If you're going to get an extra major/minor that will actually help you, then do it in something like business or Spanish.

 

[foreverLaur]

I'm doing a double major in microbiology and accounting. From what I hear, just have good reason for doing it. Microbiology will give me the strong science foundation and accounting will give me the business experience since private practice is running a business.

 

[apnea]

I'm doing a double major in microbiology and accounting. From what I hear, just have good reason for doing it. Microbiology will give me the strong science foundation and accounting will give me the business experience since private practice is running a business.

Have you thought about maybe going for a dual MD/MBA? my best friend's older brother just finished and he's sooo happy he did

 

[sle3pyguii]

I think as long as the second major doesn't affect your grades negatively, it's fine. I have Biochem as my second major on top of my Econ because the Biochem degree only requires 2 more courses along with the pre-req courses I need to do anyways.

 

[nyct]

I did Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. It murdered my grades without helping in any other way. Worse yet I took so many credits getting the degrees that now it's almost impossible to get my GPA up. With premed my opinion is that less is more.

I definitely agree with this statement. I had a similar situation: Biology and Neuroscience double major, and for some stupid reason I took all the harder upper level courses at the same time. Killed my grades...

Stick with one major.

 

[emaj1n]

Does anyone know if a double major (genetics and environmental health) and a minor in spanish is more beneficial than say one major (genetics) and two minors (environmental health and spanish)?

Minors are irrelevant, and majors are next to irrelevant. The only reason to major or minor in additional subjects is increase your own well-roundedness and knowledge. If you like environmental health enough to take 15 or so classes in it, then major in it. If not, minor in it. If you couldn't care less about environmental health, then forget it. Same with Spanish and genetics.

A career in medicine isn't a given for any pre-med. Choose courses that you like while you still can.