<p>I am trying to figure out which university to attend next year. I plan on double majoring in premed/business so either biology/management or bio/finance, because my ultimate goal is to be a hospital administrator and start a hospital. I can't decide which school to go to, i live in IL and want to decide between these schools: Loyola-Chicago, Uof I Urbana Champaign, UW Madison, and Northwestern. I appreciate any advice and want to know which school is probably the best to accomodate both majors i want to do and gives me the best chance to get accepted to med school, because all the different rankings give different data and provide no concrete evidence supporting going to one particular university.</p>
<p>there is no premed major. why are you majoring in bio?</p>
<p>i heard from a former harvard adcom (family friend) that adcoms in general frown on business majors (though this is not stated publically) because it makes it seem that you are going into the profession just for the money. but imo, there's a good justification for everything.</p>
<p>you should go to the university where youll be happiest. have you visited any of these place? which one provides the best environment. where you go for college matters very little for med school admissions.</p>
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<p>Well, they frown in general on vocational majors, which business is kind of on the border of.</p>
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where you go for college matters very little for med school admissions.
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Which is to say, excelling wherever you go is the solution to any problem.</p>
<p>NU doesnt offer business majors. Kellogg is going to start offering certificate programs, but it's not a business major. The best schools to do bio and business are probably MIT and Penn (LSM). </p>
<p>BDM, would doing Penn's LSM (Wharton + Bio) program put one at a disadvantage for med school? Would getting a degree from Wharton be seen as a bad decision for premeds? I'm basically undecided now on what to major in now and want to know what options are good.</p>
<p>For one thing, don't forget that Wharton actually gives out degrees in Economics, not Business. I can't imagine it would be a big deal.</p>
<p>Of course, other Penn kids will be scared of you...</p>
<p>Are med schools that stupid or that uncaring to not know that a BS in econ is a business degree? I mean, at Wharton you take 1 Econ class (which merges intro Micro and Macro) and the rest is accounting, finance, management, marketing, etc.</p>
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Are med schools that stupid or that uncaring
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<p>As a general rule, the answer is yes. :p</p>
<p>On a more serious note, the question is whether your particular degree is representative of a broad, well-rounded, liberal arts curriculum. With Wharton, I don't think that's a problem. Especially not if your degree was, so to speak, "half" from Wharton.</p>
<p>I understand that business is kind of a vocational study but that is why i want to double major. I want to be able to start my own hospital and be able to partake in both the business and medical aspect. So this is why i will major in both some type of business or economics, but as far as a science major i dont know exactly which one, i applied as a bio major. another question is what major wouldn't be looked down upon and what is a good science major considering i want to get into med school, and which of the schools i listed gives me the best chance of that.</p>
<p>Majors don't matter as long as they're not vocational. I don't know how a double would be perceived.</p>
<p>Only do a double if you're sure you can handle it. They're not terribly useful.</p>
<p>do the science major only if youre interested in it and think you can do well - it gives you no added advantage.</p>
<p>have you thought about MD-MBA programs? how about something less...like minoring in business or just taking a few classes in the subject. if you decide on econ, most of the stuff you learn will be above and beyond what you'll need to do hospital admin</p>
<p>well i really love business but i definitly know i want to go to med school because i want to be an administrator so its hard to tell especially with the course load so im not sure how exactly to go about getting all the requirements for what i wanna do</p>
<p>i like the md-mba program idea but med school on its own i figure will be tough enough so idk how long it would take and i figured i can get my MBA while working as a doctor</p>
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i definitly know i want to go to med school because i want to be an administrator
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... huh? I don't see the connection.</p>
<p>PS: Gator: While I agree that as a general rule a double isn't useful, it sounds to me like he wants the business because he actually wants to learn the stuff and the biology because business runs the risk of being seen as vocational. So this is one of the weird circumstances where the double might actually make sense.</p>
<p>the connection b/w med school and the administrator is that its easier to become a hospital administrator with a md because you are perceived as knowing more about both the medical as well as business aspects, i know this only because i have asked multiple administrators if its necessary to go to med school to do what they do and they told me its easier to reach that position with a MD.</p>
<p>Venkat, with the LSM program, you can choose either a BS in wharton or a BA in the college, so you have the option to do the latter if you're concerned, though I don't think you should be. Besides, your Wharton concentration would be HCMG, which clearly has a medical tie-in, and the program is designed knowing that many of the students enrolling in it will be premed.</p>
<p>I'm not in LSM. I'm just curious. I like asking hypothetical questions that have nothing to do about me. (please not ethis BMD, BRM, norcalguy, and phillySASer because a good percentage of what I ask really doesn't pertain to me, but is just my general curiosity).</p>
<p>sorry to hijack the thread but my question is related. im a freshman at georgetown university and i'm pre-med majoring in "healthcare management & policy." do you think medical schools will look down upon this major? </p>
<p>it's a pretty intense major with lots of classes. im taking high credit loads to finish all my general ed requirements, premed reqs, and major reqs, and tryin to squeeze in a minor in chemistry. in the major you basically take alot of hte business school core classes, and then upper level business classes related to health economcis and health systems and also do an internship senior year 2nd semester at the gu hospital.</p>
<p>I would think it could go either way. Check with your school's advising team (GU should have pretty good advising, no?) about past success rates.</p>
<p>When you say adcoms look down upon vocational majors how big of a problem do you think that could be.</p>
<p>For example I plan on majoring in finance at UTexas (McCombs) but doing premed reqs as well for several reasons, primarily the same as the OP. </p>
<p>How detrimental will that be assuming I have the high GPA and MCAT, I thought they didn't care what your major was.</p>