<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>If you have seen my previous posts, you would probably know by now that I am 100% sure I want to attend medical school after I graduate. That said, I would be an upcoming freshman this fall of 2010, and I am having a hard time choosing a major. I looked at a sample of the MCAT test, including physical sciences, biological sciences, and the verbal reasoning, and thought the verbal reasoning was nothing out of this world, however the biological sciences, especially the physical sciences scared the "expletive" out of me. I want to know which science major would prepare me the best for this two parts of the test(biological, physical sciences), but without hurting my GPA. I heard majors like biomedical enginneering, and in physical sciences are really tough, and might end up lowering your GPA. </p>
<p>What I had in mind was to major in Biomedical Sciences, and do a minor in physcology to improve my writing, commmunication, and critical thinking skills.</p>
<p>Suggestions on any majors???....minors???</p>
<p>Any suggestions about how to prepare, or what path to take to achieve my goal???</p>
<p>Thank you so much in advance for all your responses.</p>
<p>BTW: If I do make it yo med-school, I want to become a Pediatrician:)</p>
<p>Believe it or not, the average non-science major scored better than the average science major on the MCAT (although the physical sciences fared quite well). Looking at the sample questions as a senior in high school probably isn’t the best indicator of how well you’ll do on it. You have about three years of learning to do before you take the MCAT, so of course you’ll (hopefully) learn a lot by then. Your plan sounds fine if it is what will make you happy.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table18-facts09mcatgpabymaj1-web.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table18-facts09mcatgpabymaj1-web.pdf</a></p>
<p>be a lib. arts major. you’ll have all of the time in the world to practice for the MCAT and do the extracurricular stuff required for getting into med. school.</p>
<p>I already answered your thread in a different subforum, but I think a little background might be helpful.</p>
<p>Many CCers are used to seeing people who don’t really like science but want to be doctors asking about majors. They are used to saying that you can major in anything and there is no need to do science. This is perfectly true, but based on your other thread I get the feeling that you would actually like to be a science major. There is nothing wrong with that more obvious choice either.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, non science majors do best in the MCAT’s. This is usually because they’ve learned just enough for the MCAT’s and aren’t rusty with basics since they’ve done mostly the basics. That being said, do what you like.</p>
<p>^ This is certainly not so. The statistics measuring for this do not account for all variables. Keep in mind that most pre med students will, without reason, choose biology majors. Most of these students who enter don’t truly know what they’re getting into, and most of these students are a part of the group of students that get weeded out. Typically, the students that go into a non-science major knows more so about what they’re getting themselves into. This in turn affects why the average acceptance rate for Biology majors are so low. It’s not because Biology major is the worst to go for, it’s because the Biology major is overwhelmingly concentrated with students who aren’t serious or know what being a pre med is really like. It’s because of these students that averages for science majors are so low, and therefore ruin the realistic statistics.</p>