BA or BS for graduate school in the sciences?

<p>I'm transferring to Miami University this fall as a Microbiology major. Even though I'm transferring in as a sophomore, I've only taken two science courses because I've been wanting to hold off on the higher level classes until I transfer and because of interest in other subjects while at the same time getting questionable (at best) advice from counselors at my school.</p>

<p>Anyway, I want to minor in either neuroscience or molecular biology and after looking at the course catalogs and weighing a few other options (time and $$$ being big ones), it would be "easier" to minor in one of those subjects with a BA rather than a BS. </p>

<p>I'd like to go to graduate school for immunology or something related to that and drug therapy/design (pharmacology?? I'm not totally familiar with how the graduate process works, but when I attend orientation, I have a whole host of questions to ask counselors regarding grad school). Will having a BA (or AB as it's called at Miami) hurt my chances of getting into graduate school? I already have a year of research experience and I'll continue that project in the summers and hope to get on in a lab at MU sometime in the spring. From what I've read/heard, some schools weigh that and LORs higher than GPA. Is that true?</p>

<p>I don’t think a BA vs a BS will make any difference. I have a BA in physics and I think I did fine in getting interviews and acceptances at the programs I applied to (I’m now in computational biology). </p>

<p>In my opinion, research experience and LOR are without a doubt more important than GRE scores or GPA, but being too low in either GPA or GRE scores could keep you out of many good programs.</p>

<p>As long as you complete the requisite courses, the kind of degree won’t matter. My daughter majored in neuroscience at an LAC and so received a B.A. She is currently in a PhD program in neuroscience.</p>

<p>I don’t think it matters at all. I got a BA in Biology and see no advantage/disadvantage if I were to go for the BS.</p>