Stick with my Biochem major?

[Sam Fisher]

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I am currently doing my biochem major, but i'm not getting the grades I want to get. If I did something else like bio or some other easy major, I know I would get all A's. Would it be better for me to stick with my major and get B/B+'s or switch to an easier major and get A's. Or would med schools me more impressed with the advanced classes I would have to take as a biochem major.

 

[Medikit]

I am currently doing my biochem major, but i'm not getting the grades I want to get. If I did something else like bio or some other easy major, I know I would get all A's. Would it be better for me to stick with my major and get B/B+'s or switch to an easier major and get A's. Or would med schools me more impressed with the advanced classes I would have to take as a biochem major.

Med schools would be more impressed with high grades than advanced classes... sadly 🙁. I'm doing both Bio and Chemistry interestingly enough and I agree that you will probably get higher grades in Bio than in Chemistry.

 

[sty]

Agreed...Grades are more important than anything else. I sacrificed my GPA for a degree in bioinformatics. Not only did my GPA suffer, I've met few people who even know what that means. In one of my interviews I was actually asked what it was by the interviewer, he had never heard of it. However he was quick to ask me about deficiencies in my GPA.

 

[shahalam]

Most schools I have talked to seem to prefer the harder classes actually. I don't think this is an official thing but more med school opinion based.

 

[dayz]

Best advice I’d gotten is major in something that you are interested in - seriously cause you're never going to have that freedom in undergrad ever ever again. GPA is important - some schools use that to narrow their pool right? BUT also take higher level sciences, do research, volunteer, etc the usual.

I think they would like well-rounded, passionate people as oppose to someone who is miserable or border line suicidal cause they picked a hard major just to impress a school while their GPA and prob sanity suffered. Trust me – my friend picked a hard major and got a horrible GPA (didn’t even break a 3.0) and went to an Ivy to get her MPH and then applied to 50 med schools and didn’t get in 🙁 … most importantly (as a senior looking back) have FUN 😀 and learn lots of non-science things (wish I minored in French)… cause you will be doing that for the rest of your life or for the next several years.