What major should I take to prepare for the MCAT?

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I'm a high school senior and plan on taking Pre-Med in college. I know Pre-me is a set of classes, and I have to also choose a major.
Which major would prepare me for the toughest parts of the MCAT?
Also, what grade would be considered "average" on the MCAT, and what is the score out of? Thanks guys!
By the way, if anyone here is a doctor, let me know what it feels like!! I would love to become a Spine Surgeon in orthopedics 🙂🙂🙂

 

[TriagePreMed]

Whatever you want as long as you do your premed and include biochem, physiology and genetics.

 

[SN12357]

I'm a high school senior and plan on taking Pre-Med in college. I know Pre-me is a set of classes, and I have to also choose a major.
Which major would prepare me for the toughest parts of the MCAT?
Also, what grade would be considered "average" on the MCAT, and what is the score out of? Thanks guys!
By the way, if anyone here is a doctor, let me know what it feels like!! I would love to become a Spine Surgeon in orthopedics 🙂🙂🙂

Your major will have absolutely nothing to do with how you end up doing on the MCAT. Pick something you enjoy and make sure you do well in the premed sciences.

And for god's sake and your own sanity, stay off of sdn until you're close enough to the process to actually need procedural advice on applications and/or the MCAT, or you'll drive yourself insane.

 

[loveanswers]

Your major will have absolutely nothing to do with how you end up doing on the MCAT. Pick something you enjoy and make sure you do well in the premed sciences.

And for god's sake and your own sanity, stay off of sdn until you're close enough to the process to actually need procedural advice on applications and/or the MCAT, or you'll drive yourself insane.

Well said

 

[swim88]

spine surgeon in orthopedics

 

[Roxas]

Not to be a downer, but if I had a nickel for everyone I knew in high school that said they wanted to be a doctor and didn't last past freshmen year of college...

 

[Person0715]

Major doesn't matter. Just take the pre-reqs

 

[Nissan GTR]

aerospace engineering

 

[FeinMS]

Do what you like. College is to learn what you want to learn.

 

[onedirection]

Go Art History and Econ like me. I attempted physics a physics minor, dropped it rather quickly.

 

[snowflakes]

A major that emphasizes critical thinking and analyzing information. It's easy enough to learn the science you need to know from the pre-req classes or by reading a review book, but understanding how to reason and how to draw conclusions and inferences from information you're presented with is more difficult to pick up naturally without guidance from your classes/professors.

There's a lot of different subjects (both science-related and not) that fit this criteria. The style of thinking you'll learn is much more important than the information itself.