Most popular pre med major

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What you guys think most popular and common pre med major is? What major has highest acceptance rate if there is study on that!
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Biology is the most popular. I think I saw a report once that people in the humanities had the highest acceptance rate (don't quote me on that though) . There are very few people applying with those degrees though so you wouldn't be able to draw much from it.

The best thing you can do is study what interests you because adcoms really don't care as long as you have the needed classes.
 
Bio major here. Very happy I chose this. I paid attention and actually learned in class. Bio that is. It gave me a leg up for the mcat no joke. Domt do anything you don't like. Your life will suck worse.
 
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agreed. love bio, but my passion is in politics. Do what you want, no one cares anyways as long as you got the pre reqs
 
Most of the time, I'm seeing ... Biological Sciences/Zoology, followed by Biochemistry, Engineering, Psychology, Neuroscience.

I have also been seeing an uptick in liberal arts majors (e.g., English).

Hopefully, students are selecting majors that interest them (especially since they still have to complete pre-reqs along the way, no matter which major is listed on their undergraduate transcript).
 
While interviewing the vast majority of people I have met heave been biology majors, whether they say "biology major" or call it something fancier like "molecular biology major" or whatever. Also a decent number of neurobiology or behavioral neuroscience majors and surprising number of chemistry majors. The odd physics major always seems to impress people.


I've only met one person who major was like intpretive dance and music or something wild. TBH that person was probably doing it right.
 
Do they classify bioengineering under Biological Sciences? I've heard people say (online and in real life) that bioengineering is quickly becoming one of the most popular pre-med majors.
 
ChrisMack390 said:
While interviewing the vast majority of people I have met heave been biology majors, whether they say "biology major" or call it something fancier like "molecular biology major" or whatever. Also a decent number of neurobiology or behavioral neuroscience majors and surprising number of chemistry majors. The odd physics major always seems to impress people.


I've only met one person who major was like intpretive dance and music or something wild. TBH that person was probably doing it right.
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Get a lot of math majors? I used to think so, but none the people I went to school with were interested in medicine.
 
Psych! But actually not. If the humanities majors have the highest acceptance rates, yay. I'll let y'all know
 
ChrisMack390 said:
While interviewing the vast majority of people I have met heave been biology majors, whether they say "biology major" or call it something fancier like "molecular biology major" or whatever. Also a decent number of neurobiology or behavioral neuroscience majors and surprising number of chemistry majors. The odd physics major always seems to impress people.


I've only met one person who major was like intpretive dance and music or something wild. TBH that person was probably doing it right.
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What you mean by surprising number of chemistry majors?
 
Fuarky said:
What you guys think most popular and common pre med major is? What major has highest acceptance rate if there is study on that!
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https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstablea17.pdf

% of applicants / major / matriculation rate
(ordered by matriculation rate, which should be approximately equal to admissions rate)

4% humanities 49%
10% physical sci 45%
1% math 44%
11% social sci 40%
53% bio 39%
19% other 36%
3% health sci 31%

However, I'd bet this is in part because humanities majors tend to come from higher ranked universities, which emphasize the humanities and don't have majors like "health science."
 
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Chem or Biochem majors would probably have the largest advantage on the MCAT..
 
Fuarky said:
What you mean by surprising number of chemistry majors?
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I mean more than I personally would have expected. Not that I looked up the statistics or anything.


Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Get a lot of math majors? I used to think so, but none the people I went to school with were interested in medicine.
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I haven't met any, but obviously this is not a very good sample.
 
Nommonnom said:
https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstablea17.pdf

% of applicants / major / matriculation rate
(ordered by matriculation rate, which should be approximately equal to admissions rate)

4% humanities 49%
10% physical sci 45%
1% math 44%
11% social sci 40%
53% bio 39%
19% other 36%
3% health sci 31%

However, I'd bet this is in part because humanities majors tend to come from higher ranked universities, which emphasize the humanities and don't have majors like "health science."
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I wish we had the raw data so we could test that last claim cuz I actually don't think it's necessarily true for several reasons and it depends on what you mean by "ranked" and "highly".

But nah, AAMC still playin
 
Lucca said:
I wish we had the raw data so we could test that last claim cuz I actually don't think it's necessarily true for several reasons and it depends on what you mean by "ranked" and "highly".

But nah, AAMC still playin
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Maybe it's a selection bias of some sort? Or some confounding variable? Most of the humanities majors that I've met who are also pre-med are usually top dog in their major/department. I think by virtue of choosing that route they may have some other things going for them.

Also I second @MareNostrummm. I'm a biochem major and that really helped me on the new MCAT. As in many of the things I saw my other non-biochem pre-med friends studying and/or struggling with I already had down.
 
BunnyMan17 said:
Maybe it's a selection bias of some sort? Or some confounding variable? Most of the humanities majors that I've met who are also pre-med are usually top dog in their major/department. I think by virtue of choosing that route they may have some other things going for them.

Also I second @MareNostrummm. I'm a biochem major and that really helped me on the new MCAT. As in many of the things I saw my other non-biochem pre-med friends studying and/or struggling with I already had down.
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Also a lot of people are decent with bio but just can't handle chem/physics very well... as a biochem major you would probably have had more chem classes than the typical bio major and thus be able to handle all the orgo reactions on the MCAT.


That being said:

Best major: Biochem with a minor in social psychology lol
 
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