docgoals90
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Whats your nontraditional major and why did you choose it? Did you find it benefitted you in anyway?
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My first degree is political science. I learned a lot and that education has helped me in my career and life in general, but I also had poor work ethic, so Im committed to a second bachelors to improve GPA and demonstrate growth in that area.
Just enrolled in community college to start my second bachelors journey (will transfer to bachelors program after 2 years). I went into this thinking I absolutely needed to major in something sciencey to improve my chances of admission. Then I came across that bit of research that Im sure you've all seen, that shows bio majors have a lower likelihood of acceptance, when controlled by percentage within their major category, and have lower MCAT scores than humanities majors. This makes sense, given that there's a heavy saturation of bio majors, so choosing that or any science at all seems like it would actually not be a benefit to my admissions in some ways. The one of many vs one of few effect of being a nontraditional major. Doing well in my science courses and getting a lot of clinical volunteer experience seem more important than majoring in science, it turns out. I was surprised by the MCAT scores, until I found out about the CARS section. Still, I would have assumed the science majors would pull significantly higher scores elsewhere to offset that advantage, but I guess not. I think math majors ended up with the highest MCAT scores.
Im strongly leaning towards Communications now, as advertising/marketing is appealing as a backup career and builds on my experience in nonprofit work. Either that or psychology, but more leaning toward Comm. I also read that law schools like this major specifically. Obviously, this is not a humanities major, but theres still a similar advantage.
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My first degree is political science. I learned a lot and that education has helped me in my career and life in general, but I also had poor work ethic, so Im committed to a second bachelors to improve GPA and demonstrate growth in that area.
Just enrolled in community college to start my second bachelors journey (will transfer to bachelors program after 2 years). I went into this thinking I absolutely needed to major in something sciencey to improve my chances of admission. Then I came across that bit of research that Im sure you've all seen, that shows bio majors have a lower likelihood of acceptance, when controlled by percentage within their major category, and have lower MCAT scores than humanities majors. This makes sense, given that there's a heavy saturation of bio majors, so choosing that or any science at all seems like it would actually not be a benefit to my admissions in some ways. The one of many vs one of few effect of being a nontraditional major. Doing well in my science courses and getting a lot of clinical volunteer experience seem more important than majoring in science, it turns out. I was surprised by the MCAT scores, until I found out about the CARS section. Still, I would have assumed the science majors would pull significantly higher scores elsewhere to offset that advantage, but I guess not. I think math majors ended up with the highest MCAT scores.
Im strongly leaning towards Communications now, as advertising/marketing is appealing as a backup career and builds on my experience in nonprofit work. Either that or psychology, but more leaning toward Comm. I also read that law schools like this major specifically. Obviously, this is not a humanities major, but theres still a similar advantage.