<p>Hi, I'm a senior in highschool attending an undergraduate college this August. I have always excelled in math and physics courses and am looking in majoring in one or the other. My question is: what major will have me equally prepared for either career? My career choice will largely be on how i perform on the LSAT or the MCAT (I plan on taking both). Would a Physics/Chemistry major prepare me equally or Math/Chemistry (either with a possible philosophy minor). Any advice would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Note: My brother did the same thing he double majored in Math/Physics and then when to med school and is now on his way to becoming an anesthesiologist, so does major even matter?</p>
<p>Your major doesn’t actually matter as long as you get all the prerequisite classes done.</p>
<p>I know that, but is there a specific major that is better than the next at preparing you for both as so that when the time comes to choose later in my collegiate career I can easily switch from going the med route vs the law route?</p>
<p>Well, to continue SingDanceRunLife’s point, at the majority of schools you take “pre-law” or “pre-med” classes. These courses add up to somewhere between a minor and major. I was neither, but it is my understanding that there are more pre-med courses than pre-law (but not 100%). You will need to take pre-med classes to go to med school, I think law school is more flexable (noteably, my bf going to law school next year was not a true pre-law and only took some of the classes). Therefore, if you are leaving both pre-med and pre-law as options, you will have to take a bunch of science and philosophy classes. This will basically prevent you from double majoring unless you take a lot of classes each semester and over the summer.
My question is why are you freting about planning when you clearly do not have a real plan? Leaving both med school and law school as options is not really a “plan”. It sounds to me that you think lawyers and doctors “make bank” (which is far from true in this economy). My advice is major in what you like. Today, thousands upon thousands of students apply to med and law school. As long as you meet the requirements (which are the purpose of pre-law and pre-med programs) it really does not matter what your major is. In fact, unique majors often provoke sparks in admissions agents because you add academic diversity to their school. I know many pre-med from college and the one who got into med school were not the biology majors, but the girl who majored in cultural anthropology! So major in what you enjoy.<br>
And might I recommend choosing either law or med as a future, because schools want students who are heading in a path and don’t just choose a path because they do better on said test.</p>