<p>Ok so I eventually hope to be in med school one day and a doctor down the line. What Ive read on here though is that, if i dont get into med school, a bachelors in biology will land me a pretty crappy job. So I want to know, what major and or minor will fulfill all med school prerequisites but will also allow me to have a good back up job if for some reason i dont get into med school. Im still a senior in high school, am i being to pessimistic?</p>
<p>You are not being pessimistic, you are being realistic. It is perfectly reasonable to think this. There is a reason a lot of people on this forum say Biology is bad:</p>
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<p>As you can see, even social sciences majors do better on the MCAT than bio majors. If you are majoring in the sciences, then Physics, Math, or Engineering is probably your best shot at doing well. These majors also allow for a lot of analytical thinking, so they are desirable in markets. Philosophy is also a good major because it’s a lot of logic and reasoning.</p>
<p>Basically, the MCAT is sectioned in such a way that biological sciences is only 1/4 (if you include the writing samples section) of the exam. Hence why bio majors do awfully, they take the pre-med courses, and then more biology… Doing any major that requires logic and reasoning helps a ton, as well as majors that help you better convey your messages and stuff, such as humanities majors and English. There is a Physical sciences section as well on the MCAT, so Physics is definitely a great option.</p>
<p>If you love Biology and are good at it, do it. But know this: it is ONLY a stepping stone into grad school, nothing more. If you do not get into med school or any grad school, you might have to go back to college… </p>
<p>Hope I helped!</p>
<p>Thank you, the info you provided was very helpful. I do like Biology a lot but would you recommend maybe also minoring in Physics or vice versa as Im also taking Physics right now and also like it very much.</p>
<p>Biology has poor job and career prospects at the bachelor’s level because so many pre-meds (mistakenly) think that they have to major in biology, so the many who do not get into medical school flood the job market for low paid lab tech jobs. Chemistry does not do so well either.</p>
<p>Physics, math, statistics, and computer science tend to have much better job and career prospects than biology and chemistry. Most engineering majors also, though pre-med course work may be harder to fit around most engineering majors other than chemical engineering (which does tend to do better than chemistry). Economics and business tend to do better than most social studies majors.</p>
<p>Career surveys that show by-major job and grad school outcomes can be found at several universities like:</p>
<p>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
UC Berkeley
CMU
Georgia Tech
MIT
Purdue</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering is good med school prep, although it is much more difficult than bio and you will most likely take a GPA hit. However, some med schools view engineering majors in a better light than others because of their difficulty.</p>
<p>Thank you guys, all your input is greatly appreciated. I think I want to take the Biomedical engineering route, it seem like good med school prep from what you told me but is also a good backup.</p>
<p>The thing is, BME is the Biology of engineering, literally and figuratively: low pay and no one actually hires at the BS level. I have BME friends that all wish they did Mechanical/Electrical because the device companies hire more MechE/EE than actual BMEs. Of course, for academic, theoretical research, BME is great, just as bio is also great for academic, theoretical research. But in terms of academic, theoretical research, neither are as good as ChemE anyways! </p>
<p>Schools however TRICK you into being stuck in Biology or BME by having ***** classes. For example, BME doesn’t take Statics/Dynamics, they take “Biomechanics” which uses the same book, Vector Mechanics for Engineers, and has nearly identical homeworks and exams, but doesn’t count for MechE/Civil prereqs, haha. Same for Biology, they make you take “Physics for Life Sciences” that uses the same book and does the same thing as “Physics for Scientists and Engineers” but doesn’t count for the prereqs, and you have to go around with a begging bowl to plead with counselors and teachers to accept it as a prereq.</p>
<p>They do this so they can ensure a continued supply of low cost slaves for biosciences. Why? Because the regime in Washington has decided that the wave of the future is biotechnology, the next industrial revolution in fact, and all industrial revolutions need low wage slaves on whose backs the revolution is built. It is a conscious effort to trap people in biology to force them to build the regime’s next industrialization, much like Stalin did in the Soviet Union.</p>