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I volunteer at a research lab at my undergrad institution. It is a biochemistry based research lab in the chemistry department, and it does deal some with bacteria and gene transcription/translation. However, it is a biochemistry lab, and I am not interested in majoring in biochemistry. I want to major in biology.
Will medical school look down on it that I major in biology but do research in a biochemistry lab? Will it matter for top schools? I am also planning to do an honors thesis (I am in the honors college at my school) based on research in the biochem lab. But it won't be a "biology honors thesis", it will just be an "honors thesis" for undergrad.
Will med schools care that I do research in biochemistry while majoring in biology? It's just that, the biochemistry lab is interesting, but the major itself is just meh. I'd rather take virology/microbiology/cell biology classes during my senior year than be stuck writing lab writeups for physical chemistry.
Will medical school look down on it that I major in biology but do research in a biochemistry lab? Will it matter for top schools? I am also planning to do an honors thesis (I am in the honors college at my school) based on research in the biochem lab. But it won't be a "biology honors thesis", it will just be an "honors thesis" for undergrad.
Will med schools care that I do research in biochemistry while majoring in biology? It's just that, the biochemistry lab is interesting, but the major itself is just meh. I'd rather take virology/microbiology/cell biology classes during my senior year than be stuck writing lab writeups for physical chemistry.