<p>Yes, I know it's frowned upon to major in business, but there has to be one out there right?</p>
<p>I've been searching CC, SDN, google and asking friends, counselors, etc...</p>
<p>I need some verification.</p>
<p>My next door neighbor is a former economics major. There’s also a former oil speculator in our class.</p>
<p>Yep, I know at least 5.</p>
<p>No. If your a business major you won’t get into any medical school.</p>
<p>In defense of the question, I interviewed at about a dozen schools, went to college filled with premeds, and know all the med students from my own school within a couple of years of me. All told, I probably know about 1000 medical students. I’ve never met a single one with a solo major in business. Economics, yes – but not a “business” major.</p>
<p>BDM, that is very discouraging. When you meant “solo major in business” does that mean that the students you do know are double majors in business and some other field?</p>
<p>I usually don’t know which of my friends have double majors and which don’t; all that gets listed or talked about is the primary major. So it’s possible that some of them doubled in business. I don’t know anybody who definitely did, though.</p>
<p>I only know of one person in my class of 140 who was a business major. He majored in Finance. That being said, he was a “non-traditional” student. I think he worked for about 5 years before matriculating at our school.</p>
<p>I also have a classmate who worked for Goldman Sachs for about 10 years before starting medical school, but I just looked him up, and he majored in psychology.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that this is what the OP had in mind.</p>
<p>Yeah, all of the business oriented majors that I know are non-trads (however, some of them were only non-trad because they needed to do a post-bach)</p>
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<p>According to the Berkeley career survey website, one 2007 Haas BS graduate went to med school at Cornell.</p>
<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/BusAd.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/BusAd.stm</a></p>
<p>That’s weird, that they call it “Cornell University Medical College.” Probably just be a simple error (instead of “Weill Cornell Medical College”). I was thinking it might indicate somebody who matriculated a while ago, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.</p>
<p>I wonder if he/she was a double in something else, as well as Haas business? Is that possible?</p>
<p>I think a double with Haas is rather difficult to pull off. But I have no way of ruling it out.</p>
<p>Last year, one premed from Berkeley posted at SDN that he double-majored in both (molecular?) biology and Hass business. He applied with a 3.5 or 3.6 GPA (I can not remember it for sure) and about 35 MCAT.</p>
<p>I remember his case because he posted that another premed from Berkeley double-majored in biology and some other much easier major (ethnic studies or some major similar to that) and seemed to be just as competitive as him as far as the medical school admission is concerned.</p>
<p>He seems to have some troubles in getting any invite from California medical schools. He also posted that some medical schools (e.g., UofMichigan) may give out invites based on the stats only and these schools are good for him. (I do not know whether this is true though.)</p>
<p>I think he likely spent so much of his time to fulfill the graduation requirements that he barely had time to do “enough” ECs mandated by medical school admissions. He also posted that after he told adcoms that he quit his full-time job and joined a research group (he applied with a gap year), he started to get invites (from OOS medical schools.) I hope he got into at least one medical school in the end.</p>
<p>His weakness, if any, may be that he cares too much about a backup plan. Maybe he can not afford not to have a backup plan due to whatever reason it may be. In order to maintain his GPA while in two demanding majors, he is not capable of dedicating enough time to other activities which are also important for medical school admissions.</p>
<p>U of M definitely has an autoinvite system in place for applicants from certain schools with certain stats. I can only assume that many schools have such cut offs. Indiana University, I believe, interviews all in state applicants with a certain score/gpa.</p>
<p>I believe Michigan’s auto-invite stats do not include UC Berkeley (since they use school name) and do not stretch down to 3.5/3.6. I could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>PS: If he had no previous research experience, I can see that the addition of some research would help – but in almost every circumstance, I would think that quitting his full-time job would be a fairly severe negative.</p>
<p>Unless he was doing something terrible/illegal or something.</p>
<p>My roommate got an auto-invite from Michigan, and we go to South Carolina - surely Berkeley would be okay? But yeah, I think I read their cutoff is something like 3.8+ / 37+.</p>
<p>Are you sure it was an auto-invite? Could just be an invite of a strong candidate. My impression was that it was only about 10 schools or so.</p>
<p>Auto-invites definitely do not stretch to 3.5/3.6. It’s around 3.7-3.8/36 or so for out of state residents.</p>
<p>However, the list of schools on the auto-invite list is quite extensive (for example UC Davis is on it). Berkeley is definitely on it as I was an auto-invitee and interviewed at Michigan VERY early (either its first or second interview date) and there was a bunch of Berkeley applicants (6-7 out of 40 or so interviewees, most of whom were probably auto-invites). In fact, I saw more Berkeley applicants at that interview than the rest of my interviews combined.</p>
<p>Huh. Consider me corrected.</p>