Poll about Majors

[BiomajorPreDent]

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I have been reading around here and I am wondering, what is everyones major?

Because it seems that dental schools do not care what your major is?

Also, even though I am a bio major, I could have easily been a psychology or business major and had a 4.0 (as I have gotten in A in all of the psych classes ive taken)

Would having a "less challenging" major, something other than natural science, but having a stellar GPA make a big difference?

For example, given two students with the same DAT scores and EC's, but one is a biology major with a 3.2-3.3 and the other a business or psych major with a 3.7-4.0

Lets not turn this into major bashing, I am just curious to see what everyone is studying and what their opinion is on this subject.

What do you guys think? Who would be better off?

 

[sajjy]

Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering.

 

[12345a]

good thread

 

[ToldYouSo]

I was originally going to be a chemistry major but am doing biology since completing chem in 3 years + biology courses would be more work than I would want for the combined bs/dmd program I am in.


As long as your interested science, I personally think it's the best idea to major in them since it will help prepare for the DAT.

 

[xiphoidprocess]

Microbiology all the way

 

[lazybummy]

psych and bio.. but i've taken mostly psych classes so far (haha to boost my gpa as much as i can in time for applications).. pushing all my upper level bio til senior year. 😀

 

[Ballardista]

Even if you declared a so-called "easy" major, you'd still have to take all the required dental school classes, so you're not really saving yourself that much work except for having to take classes you aren't going to use (in the case of taking a business major with the intention of applying to dental school later on)

 

[JamesOSU]

Even if you declared a so-called "easy" major, you'd still have to take all the required dental school classes, so you're not really saving yourself that much work except for having to take classes you aren't going to use (in the case of taking a business major with the intention of applying to dental school later on)

You will most certainly use business classes in dentistry. Probably one of the most appropriate and helpful backgrounds to have in dentistry is business. As for preparing you for dental school, perhaps not, but dental school is only 4 years

 

[enfuego]

Major in what you want. It's good be well-rounded. It's nice just in general to know about a wide range of things, and business and psychology are useful in dentistry. But if you don't major in science, just make sure to take some upper-level bio classes (even if they're not required). It's good for you to get some exposure, and it's good way to show adcoms you can handle more advanced material.

Also, your science GPA is really important. You could major in something easy to get a high overall GPA, but it's not going to look good if your science GPA is low.

 

[polospy]

Integrative Physiology!

 

[sugarsting]

Bio

that is a good question. i think the bio major, because they took on the challege. it's a major more similar to dental school. taking an "easy" major may look like you don't want to study/work hard..unless it's a subject you really are passionate about and plan to incorporate into your dental career somehow.

 

[ChrisM07]

Geology.

 

[doc toothache]

A limited poll must have greater significance than what is available from the ADEA.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=640363

 

[bigstix808]

bs exercise science
ms animal physiology

 

[lovelyinpink11]

As long as you do well in your pre-reqs, it doesn't matter what you major in. I'm a Biochem major, but will end up with a biology minor do to taking the extra bio classes they recommend for dental school.

 

[Anesthetic]

Human Nutrition

 

[BiomajorPreDent]

A limited poll must have greater significance than what is available from the ADEA.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=640363

I was curious to find out percentages of SDN'ers who are biology majors, after reading this from the ADA's DAT website. Although this is only valid for those who took the DAT, I figured it was good to use roughly since everyone who wants to go to dental school takes it

Seems there is a significant amt of Bio majors just as with people here on SDN

 

[BShimel]

My "Other" was a specialized Lib Arts program centered around the Great Books.

 

[Theo]

Health Science