<p>Am I absolutely crazy to want to double major in two of the above while pursuing pre-med? Neuroscience is a competitive honors degree, but it's my favorite of the three. Will med schools appreciate the extra work I did when evaluating my gpa for admittance?</p>
<p>They won’t appreciate it that much. You will appreciate it if that is what you want to do.</p>
<p>I would just stick to two of them. Neuro and econ sounds good.</p>
<p>I don’t want to be the one to say this, but you need to think realistically. Only a small percentage ever make it to Med school. And even if they do make it, a small fraction ever graduate. I’d say take Economics as a major. That way you have a back up career as a analyst. But take the med school pre-requisites on the side.</p>
<p>Astrophysics and Neuroscience are best pursued at graduate level. Just major in Econ and do pre-med.</p>
<p>@ Scienticmind</p>
<p>It is true that only a small fraction of the students who start out as pre-med majors ever get accepted to any U.S. medical schools. However, once you get accepted nearly everyone graduates. It is almost impossible to flunk out of medical school and they will go to great lengths to get students who want to drop out to stick it out and finish. If you fail a class they just have you repeat it. At the medical school I went to there was only one student who was in danger of actually being dismissed for academic reasons. We had to pass Step I of the USMLE before we could go on to our third year clinical rotations. He failed it twice and normally you are dismissed if you do not pass step I in two attempts. He filed a petition to be allowed one more chance and it was granted. I do not know whether he passed it on the third attemp or failed it and dismissed since I had lost touch with him at this point.</p>
<p>As for astrophysics, that was my undergraduate major and was accepted at a U.S. medical school so while it is an unusual major for a prospective medical student it will not keep you from getting accepted somewhere.</p>
<p>Aren’t you still in highschool? If so, why don’t you wait a few years until you have to declare your major? Once you have a year or two of experience with your college, what the workload is like, how you manage the workload, more exposure to these subjects at the college level, and talk to your advisor (as well as students at your school in each major), you’ll know the right answer.</p>
<p>@starbright the issue with waiting is that these majors are so intense (neuro and astrophysics) that I need to start early.</p>
<p>As for earlier comments about my ability to get into med school, at this point, that is irrelevant because I would like to study science either way. Plus, you do not know what type of student I am. Going economics would be the boring safe route that would deny my passion, and I simply cannot do that.</p>
<p>The point of the thread was to ask if it were possible to manage some of these combinations with maintaining a high enough gpa for premed. @lemaitre1 had an insightful post because he went through a similar situation.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is best pursued after med school as a specialty. Jobs in research especially med/pharma research are few and far between in this country and I don’t see that changing in the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Don’t double major. It’s going to take you longer, cost you more money (and it will make a difference sooner or later), and it’s unlikely it will help you obtain your goals. If you REALLY want to know about neuroscience or economics, then minor in one or the other or audit (sit-in) on the classes. Most people don’t realize this, but once your degree requirements are satisfied you are WAY WAY WAY WAY better off just sitting in on classes so that you don’t have to worry about the additional coursework if you don’t have time to do it.</p>
<p>Double major in Astro and Econ, and start looking for finance jobs ASAP.</p>
<p>Astro shows that you know math, know programming, and can handle extremely complex ideas and boil them down to math.</p>
<p>What do you mean you need to start early? Just doesn’t make sense to lock into a major before you have gone to college and actually taken courses in the subjects you think you are interested in.</p>