Is a minor of any importance?

[hon abe lin]

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I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in Environmental Science with a chemistry concentration and I am therefore not required to complete a minor. I have taken a bunch of nutrition courses and was planning on attaining a nutrition minor. However, the required courses left to fulfill the minor are of very little interest to me.

Would completing a minor provide me any benefit when applying to medical schools?

 

[Mateodaspy]

I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in Environmental Science with a chemistry concentration and I am therefore not required to complete a minor. I have taken a bunch of nutrition courses and was planning on attaining a nutrition minor. However, the required courses left to fulfill the minor are of very little interest to me.

Would completing a minor provide me any benefit when applying to medical schools?

just take the classes to complete your minor if it will significantly raise your gpa. otherwise. don't bother.

 

[bbaek]

minors are a waste of time if you want to boost gpa. and they won't count either, adcoms don't even bother unless it's another major. and even that might not always be true.

take a minor if it interests you. sometimes learning at a great time like this never comes again.

 

[dr.z]

I don't think it will hurt to have one, but it really won't be much help either.

 

[hon abe lin]

I'm just interested...

Would pursuing a double major or advanced research be more advantageous in the medical school application process?

 

[patzan]

A minor would be a minor benefit.
A double major would be a major benefit, but not that major.

 

[fun8stuff]

I'm currently pursuing a B.S. in Environmental Science with a chemistry concentration and I am therefore not required to complete a minor. I have taken a bunch of nutrition courses and was planning on attaining a nutrition minor. However, the required courses left to fulfill the minor are of very little interest to me.

Would completing a minor provide me any benefit when applying to medical schools?

I feel that my minor diversified me, in that it made me take some non-bio, non-chem classes. I am glad I did it because it broadened my perspective... but I don't think it was beneficial to the medical school applications process. I wasn't ever really asked about it, however, adcoms did take interest in certain classes I took because of it... i.e. healthcare ethics, medical anthropology, medical geography, etc