<p>My dream is to get into Cornell as a Biometry and statistics majors and then eventually get into med school. If I don't get into med school how lucrative would the major be? and if you don't know what it is then...
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Biometry and Statistics majors learn to use quantitative methods to solve problems in the biological, physical, and social sciences. Biometry is the application of statistics, mathematics, computing, and other quantitative methods to phenomena and problems in the life sciences. Statistics is concerned with many aspects of scientific investigations: developing and studying the design and measurement aspects of investigations, executing investigations and collecting numerical information, summarizing the data obtained, and making inferences from the data.
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That's from the Cornell website.</p>
<p>I would do Biometry as my first major, and I'm unsure of whether or not I'm going to major in Math as well, input from you guys could help me decide, thanks.</p>
<p>Biometry is just a fancy name, it’s really a Statistics major. Sounds like a good preparation for becoming a Biostatistician. You’ll be fine. It wouldn’t hurt to double major in Math, if the workload is manageable.</p>
<p>Do it only if you are really interested in bio statistics. Honestly I don’t get why people always have to choose something bio-related as their major. </p>
<p>The only benefit is usually that pre-med pre-reqs and major requirements overlap but in your cases they don’t besides the math classes. But regular stats gives ya the same.</p>
<p>Well, I’m choosing it because it actually interests me haha. Whenever I post something about bio on this forum people always try to tell me not just to take it because I want to be premed, but I actually have a strong interest in BOTH Biology and Math, and since Biometry is basically a combination of the two it makes sense to me that I should ideally enjoy them, thus helping me to get a high GPA. My only worry about this is that it would seem too similar to biology and thus land me in the same place as all the biology majors for possible employment.</p>