Biology major?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I was looking through the possible majors in a Berkeley brochure, and didn't see a Bio major. I'm not particularly interested in majoring in "molecular biology" or "environmental biology", but a biology major that is geared more towards a profession in the medical field (for example, a pediatrician). Yes, there are 'types' of biology majors, but they're more towards research aren't they?</p>

<p>My question is, do you know anyone who is majoring in Biology and who wants to have a profession in the medical field?? How strong is their Life & Sciences department? Is Berekely more focused on engineering?</p>

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<p>Can someone please help me with this? I've tried to contact the undergrad admission's office, but they haven't e-mailed me yet. If they don't have a good biology department then I don't think I'm going to apply.</p>

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<p>Most people who plan on entering Med School are MCB majors.</p>

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<p>Well I'm not planning to enter Med School just yet. I'm going to apply as an undergrad freshman for the Fall of 2007.</p>

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<p>Most of the people I've met here so far that are looking to join the medical field are prospective Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) majors, and a few Integrative Biology (IB) majors.</p>

<p>My older brother, who is now a doctor, was an MCB and Anthropology major.</p>

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Yes, there are 'types' of biology majors, but they're more towards research aren't they?

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<p>Eh, some are geared towards specific types of lab research, some aren't geared towards lab research, I think.</p>

<p>There are 19 or so different possible "biology" majors at Berkeley. Go to berkeley.edu and poke around the websites, such as <a href="http://biology.berkeley.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://biology.berkeley.edu/&lt;/a> . Note that not all the bio majors are in the college of letters and sciences.</p>

<p><a href="http://sph.berkeley.edu/degrees/undergrad.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://sph.berkeley.edu/degrees/undergrad.htm&lt;/a> and <a href="http://ib.berkeley.edu/student/undergrad/major/index.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ib.berkeley.edu/student/undergrad/major/index.php&lt;/a> will be of particular interest, I imagine.</p>

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I was looking through the possible majors in a Berkeley brochure, and didn't see a Bio major.

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<p>We don't have a "Biology" major per se; the closest general biology major available would be an integrative biology major.</p>

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<p>Wow! Thanks so much! I'm so glad I found this forum. =)</p>

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<p>If you want to be a pediatrician, you should consider a major in psychology. Berkeley's developmental psych faculty is extremely strong in all aspects...hint hint</p>

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<p>Even undergraduate teaching and psych major satisfaction?</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>You have numbers?</p>

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<p>You've seen the history website summary about student satisfaction in the social sciences.</p>

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<p>Undergraduate teaching is just fine at 72% satisfaction. Personal attention is bad at 38% but...has anybody ever actually seen long lines of students waiting to talk to psych profs? The answer is probably "no," so it's safe to say that most unsatisfied students don't care enough to take the initiave. That's their fault.</p>

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If you want to be a pediatrician, you should consider a major in psychology. Berkeley's developmental psych faculty is extremely strong in all aspects...hint hint

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<p>I'm confused lol. :/ Would I be better off doing that?</p>

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You've seen the history website summary about student satisfaction in the social sciences.

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<p>Good or bad thing?</p>

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Undergraduate teaching is just fine at 72% satisfaction. Personal attention is bad at 38% but...has anybody ever actually seen long lines of students waiting to talk to psych profs? The answer is probably "no," so it's safe to say that most unsatisfied students don't care enough to take the initiave. That's their fault.

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<p>While I partially agree, this deserves the following:</p>

<p>:rolleyes:.</p>