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Hello,
In the fall I will be starting my college career at Harvard University and I was wondering what the easiest science majors are from your perception. I will be majoring in Chemical engineering, but I was questioning the difficulty of the sciences in general. Also, exactly how difficult is a major such as chemical engineering when compared to a biological science such as neuroscience? Obviously, I intend on attending medical school, but also possess a profound interest in pursuing a separate graduate degree. Also, what science could you potentially graduate the quickest in?

Thanks,

EDIT: I am questioning the difficulty of majors because I am curious. I am staying with chemical engineering. For a future doctor, what exactly would be the best major from your experience. I do not plan on changing, I am simply curious. So we are clear, Harvard does not offer a set degree in chemical engineering, but they allow you to pursue it, although you will obtain a degree in biomedical engineering.
 
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Haha, chemical engineering is way harder, but nonetheless a way better and more applicable major than than biology/neuroscience.
 
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I knew that any kind of engineering would be a challenge. I was just curious exactly how difficult it is compared to neuroscience. I have heard from others that neuroscience is rather challenging, but I did not know exactly how difficult.
 
First off it's not about graduating fast it's about the depth of the major you get your degree in. Neuroscience and chemical engineering are two very different types of majors. Depends what you are good in. Chemical engineering is a vast amount of math and obviously chemistry and neuroscience is well neuroscience ( a lot of memorization). What other kind of graduate degree are you looking to get?

Secondly, why the hell are you asking what's the easiest? Why would you want the easiest? a person like you who just wants to hurry up and finish college should go into sociology (it's pretty easy).

Best of luck buddy

P.S. goodluck trying to find an easy major at Harvard.
 
Environmental Science. My school has a very easy program--well--relatively easier than most science major.
 
Going about it all wrong from the beginning. Do what you love and are interested in. Difficulty is subjective and irrelevant in these matters.
 
I have no interest in pursuing an easy degree, I was just curious. To be completely honest, I have not yet decided, and I probably will not for sometime, if I will enter an MD or an MD / PHD program. If I do an MD / PHD program at Harvard, to my knowledge, it is not completely funded. Therefore, you will still graduate with $100,000 of debt.
 
macho07 said:
Going about it all wrong from the beginning. Do what you love and are interested in. Difficulty is subjective and irrelevant in these matters.
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Listen to your elders. Your looking at it wrong. Do what you want to do not what your parents say to do.

Environmental Science. My school has a very easy program--well--relatively easier than most science major.
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I don't know what school you go to. Environmental science isn't a piece of cake.
 
I do not expect anything to be a piece of cake regardless. I obviously cannot be certain now, and surely will not be until MS-3, but I have a definite interest in neurological surgery.
 
genius19971995 said:
I do not expect anything to be a piece of cake regardless. I obviously cannot be certain now, and surely will not be until MS-3, but I have a definite interest in neurological surgery.
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0/10, Mr. "I'm going to Harvard and I want to major in the easiest one that still looks good to adcoms so I can be a neurosurgeon"
 
You do not understand. I do NOT want to major in the easiest subject, I am simply wondering what it is. I am pursuing chemical engineering for a reason.
 
I tried to make that clear in my original post when I said I was pursuing chemical/ biomedical engineering regardless.
 
davidbm95 said:
Listen to your elders. Your looking at it wrong. Do what you want to do not what your parents say to do.



I don't know what school you go to. Environmental science isn't a piece of cake.
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I go to a state school. 😉
 
genius19971995 said:
You do not understand. I do NOT want to major in the easiest subject, I am simply wondering what it is. I am pursuing chemical engineering for a reason.
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Why are you asking what is the easiest and fastest major than? :spam:
 
Read my original post. I promise, that will tell you why!

I am questioning the difficulty of majors because I am curious. I am staying with chemical engineering. For a future doctor, what exactly would be the best major from your experience? I do not plan on changing, I am simply curious.
 
genius19971995 said:
Read my original post. I promise, that will tell you why!

I am questioning the difficulty of majors because I am curious. I am staying with chemical engineering. For a future doctor, what exactly would be the best major from your experience? I do not plan on changing, I am simply curious.
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a major that sets you apart from everyone else (hint hint: not science), something you're good at & enjoy and more importantly a major that has enough flexibility to provide you the opportunity to take all your pre-reqs.
 
nicolemsm said:
a major that sets you apart from everyone else (hint hint: not science), something you're good at & enjoy and more importantly a major that has enough flexibility to provide you the opportunity to take all your pre-reqs.
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Well put. 😎
 
genius19971995 said:
I have no interest in pursuing an easy degree, I was just curious. To be completely honest, I have not yet decided, and I probably will not for sometime, if I will enter an MD or an MD / PHD program. If I do an MD / PHD program at Harvard, to my knowledge, it is not completely funded. Therefore, you will still graduate with $100,000 of debt.
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😆
 
I do not see the hilarity behind that. One of my cousins is currently doing a surgical residency with an MD PHD from harvard.
 
genius19971995 said:
Read my original post. I promise, that will tell you why!

For a future doctor, what exactly would be the best major from your experience? I do not plan on changing, I am simply curious.
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Well, if it helps I was a neuroscience major in college. I don't necessarily believe that it was the best major for a future doctor - in fact, I don't think that exists. Any doctor could have a bachelor's degree in any field of his or her choosing and it would be fine. I chose neuroscience because it was a field of science I found to be interesting since my junior high days.
 
I'm curious as to how many more times you're going to use the word curious in this thread. I feel like I'm reading the transcript of a Tim Tebow press conference.

Ugh...fresh out of high school and planning to train as a neurosurgeon after graduating with an MD/PhD from HMS. And a username of Genius to boot.
 
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At my school, Neuroscience was probably the easiest, only requiring 5 bio courses and 5 psychology courses. It was much easier than the Bio major, which required more upper level bio courses, gen chem, physics, math, and organic chemistry. That being said, no science major is "easy".
 
This thread is cute!

But seriously, I would say that generally anything life science based (Bio, Neuro, etc...) will be easier than a physical science program (chem, physics, etc...). But it probably varies between schools.

That is just my opinion as a lowly state school graduate, I can't even begin to comprehend your intellect as a future HMS MD/PhD neurosurgeon. 😛
 
Bloated ex-premed liberal arts major by spring semester.
 
This guy is what I came across in my school, just a pre-med, that thanks he's above everyone one else. I often heard people like him talk on the elevator 'ROFLCOPTER I'm so smart my major is so hard, and xxxxx, major is so easy'.

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Harvard has mass amounts of grade inflation...regardless of what you do, you'll end up with a high GPA.
 
it should be said that it depends on what you want to do. If you want to do Chem-E and have the GPA for med school you are in for a rough ride. There is quite the discrepancy between what it takes to pass and get a job after UG and what it takes to get the GPA for med school.
 
One would think that you would be intelligent enough to figure this out for yourself. Clearly, it all depends on the program you are entering, the professors you take, and how good you are/how interested you are in that subject matter.
 
I was an engineer, and found that required basic engineering sciences wouldn't cover all of my prereqs because they were condensed classes covering two semesters into one, so I changed to a science major. Just food for thought
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The difficulty of your major largely depends on your own strengths and weaknesses. Also, it varies school by school, so asking a bunch of people who aren't affiliated with Harvard which one is hardest is probably pointless.

One of my majors was Spanish, which was pretty easy for me because it went along with a lot of my strengths, but I once had a biomedical engineer tell me it sounded like a really hard major and that he wouldn't be able to do well at it. (At the same time, I probably wouldn't do so hot in engineering because I'm not interested in it.)

My advice to you is to resist what many incoming freshman do and try not to pigeonhole yourself into one major just because it sounds cool. Take a few classes in random subjects your first year and see how you like it. If you learn that you really love engineering, then go for it. It will be much easier to not only complete the degree but to also discuss it at an interview if it is truly what you love.
 
out of all the "natural" sciences I would say most people would agree that life sciences tend to be much easier than formal and physical sciences.
 
BeHappy2013 said:
The difficulty of your major largely depends on your own strengths and weaknesses. Also, it varies school by school, so asking a bunch of people who aren't affiliated with Harvard which one is hardest is probably pointless.

One of my majors was Spanish, which was pretty easy for me because it went along with a lot of my strengths, but I once had a biomedical engineer tell me it sounded like a really hard major and that he wouldn't be able to do well at it. (At the same time, I probably wouldn't do so hot in engineering because I'm not interested in it.)

My advice to you is to resist what many incoming freshman do and try not to pigeonhole yourself into one major just because it sounds cool. Take a few classes in random subjects your first year and see how you like it. If you learn that you really love engineering, then go for it. It will be much easier to not only complete the degree but to also discuss it at an interview if it is truly what you love.
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Yeah this is good advice. One of the main things that I would recommend, in hindsight, is to take calculus based physics if you are contemplating a physical science/engineering major. I took the standard life science physics course (which still had some calculus, albeit less of it), mainly because that was what my premed advisor told me to do. When it came time to declare a major after my sophomore year, I was kind of locked out of a chemistry or physics major because I would have had to take the intro physics sequence all over again. So yeah, make sure you pick your classes wisely your first two years, in order to give yourself more options when it comes time to declare your major.
 
dmf2682 said:
On an undergraduate level, anyway.
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SpecterGT260 said:
grad vs grad I would also say
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Meh, it's all about math. Math appears to have a deterring effect on people, especially people who just like memorizing facts.

The more math a subject has the "harder" it is.
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Neurosis said:
Meh, it's all about math. Math appears to have a deterring effect on people, especially people who just like memorizing facts.

The more math a subject has the "harder" it is.
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mmmmmm........ I agree to an extent.

The less subjective a subject is, the harder it is. This is almost always directly correlated with the amount of math. Life sciences lack a number of proper controls so their associations often have a ton of personal interpretation. I don't necessarily find a subject to be all that deep if conclusions are simply drawn based on "how the man with the biggest mustache said it".
 
SpecterGT260 said:
mmmmmm........ I agree to an extent.

The less subjective a subject is, the harder it is. This is almost always directly correlated with the amount of math. Life sciences lack a number of proper controls so their associations often have a ton of personal interpretation. I don't necessarily find a subject to be all that deep if conclusions are simply drawn based on "how the man with the biggest mustache said it".
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genius19971995 said:
If you took the time to read this and stopped jumping to conclusions you would know.
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Asking a provocative question that in no way offers advise or real information aside from peoples opinions is trolling...I didn't jump to any conclusions.

You said you want to know what the easiest is but then aren't going to change...so my statement stands...why are you asking? Oh, you're looking to spark a flame war...

:troll:
 
genius19971995 said:
Hello,
In the fall I will be starting my college career at Harvard University and I was wondering what the easiest science majors are from your perception. I will be majoring in Chemical engineering, but I was questioning the difficulty of the sciences in general. Also, exactly how difficult is a major such as chemical engineering when compared to a biological science such as neuroscience? Obviously, I intend on attending medical school, but also possess a profound interest in pursuing a separate graduate degree. Also, what science could you potentially graduate the quickest in?

Thanks,

EDIT: I am questioning the difficulty of majors because I am curious. I am staying with chemical engineering. For a future doctor, what exactly would be the best major from your experience. I do not plan on changing, I am simply curious. So we are clear, Harvard does not offer a set degree in chemical engineering, but they allow you to pursue it, although you will obtain a degree in biomedical engineering.
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8/10 troll
 
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