<p>Right now i would like to do spanish and take the prerequisites. Does anyone who has gone to med school or have family/ friends who went and what they majored in? Also, would it be a good idea to double major/minor etc..?</p>
<p>The answer is med school is major independent. You can choose any major and as long as you completed your prerequisites you can apply to med school.</p>
<p>Being a Spanish major has its advantages: you may qualify for the Porto Rico 4.</p>
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Does anyone who has gone to med school or have family/ friends who went and what they majored in? </p>
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<p>You should major in something that you LIKE and will do well in. If that’s Spanish, then that is fine. My son was a chemical engineering major.</p>
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<p>Also, would it be a good idea to double major/minor etc…?</p>
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<p>No, it’s not a good idea to double major as a premed. Your grades will likely suffer and med schools will NOT give you brownie points for double majoring.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends who are either in med school or have finished med school. One of my closest friends majored in anthropology in undergrad and is a current med student at a DO school. Another friend from grad school just finished her DO last year, I think, and majored in history in undergrad. Three of my high school friends are current residents and went to excellent med schools (Penn, Wash U, UNC) and they all majored in biology. The one who went to Wash either double majored or minored in philosophy, I can’t remember. Another friend of mine was psychology pre-med in undergrad. I have a couple of other friends who have recently finished med school and I don’t know what some of them majored in undergrad. Ew, why do I know so many doctors? :lol:</p>
<p>Anyway, the point is that you can major in really anything and go to medical school. The best major is a major that lets you keep your grades as high as possible, and that is personally interesting to you.</p>
<p>SUNY-Oswego [presents[/url</a>] an interesting analysis of medical school admissions by major. Interestingly, biological sciences majors have one of the lowest overall acceptance rates of all major groups (although that could be because of the sheer numbers of them). Math and statistics and humanities majors have nearly identical acceptance rates; physical sciences is a little lower, and the social sciences a bit lower still. Math and statistics majors seem to do better overall on the MCAT (especially the physical science section not surprisingly); humanities majors also do very well (they ace the verbal section and do well on the other two as well).</p>
<p>The AAMCS also has some semi-useful data on matriculants and applicants to med school [url=<a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstable18.pdf]by”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstable18.pdf]by</a> primary undergraduate major](<a href=“http://www.oswego.edu/academics/colleges_and_departments/departments/biology/faculty/mackenzie/homepage/advising/Pre-health_Careers/major_admission_data.html]presents[/url”>http://www.oswego.edu/academics/colleges_and_departments/departments/biology/faculty/mackenzie/homepage/advising/Pre-health_Careers/major_admission_data.html). Math and statistics majors had the highest overall GPA of admitted matriculants (tied with bio) and the highest mean MCAT scores. The social sciences had the lowest. But look at the numbers - there were only 187 admitted math and statistics admitted matriculants, compared to over 10,000 biological sciences admitted students. The smaller numbers may have made for overall higher averages; weaker math/stats students also have pretty good prospects on the open job market and might not waste their time (whereas weaker biological science students may still apply to med school because their prospects are not as good). The comparatively smaller number of humanities majors (907) may also explain the positive outcomes in that field.</p>
<p>I don’t think that means that math and statistics are necessarily the best majors for med school, though. Rather, I think that the type of student who gravitates towards math or statistics, but is also still interested in med school, is a special/certain type of student. These fields require fluency in logical and mathematical thinking but also verbal facility (they spend a lot of time translating their analyses to other people). So math/stats majors, IMO, tend to be the kind of well-rounded student that does well on the MCAT and also in med school interviews. Humanities majors, of course, have the verbal skills on lock but also probably perceive a strong need to strengthen their biological and physical sciences areas, so they probably spend time focusing on that. I will also assume that humanities majors who completed the requirements for med school knew from jump that they wanted to be pre-med, and so prepared accordingly. Conversely, the large number of biological science majors may drag down the average simply because of numbers.</p>