<p>I am currently a high-school senior thinking about what I want to do in the future. I am interested in the medical field to a certain extent. Im also interested in business and economics.</p>
<p>Is doing a business major on the premed track a good idea? I am interested in both but many people tell me that a technical major is needed for medical school.</p>
<p>I want to pick a major that isnt too hard as I would have to concentrate on the premed requirements.</p>
<p>Premed and business students both require a lot of classes to fulfill their requirements. The MCAT alone requires about 40 credits of study in calc, inorganic chem, bio, orgo, physics, and biochem. ~10 of those credits go to labs (which are hell if you’re like 95% of premed students). </p>
<p>This isn’t ordinarily a problem because most premed students major in programs like Nutritional Sciences or Human Biology that are closely tied to the MCAT courses, but business has nothing to do with these. Most business programs require an obscene amount of diverse credits which WILL take your focus off the premed coursework. </p>
<p>My advice would be to go with a major that supports the premed requirements and minor in something else that interests you. I’m not sure how good this would look if you weren’t going to med school, but you can’t really have your cake and eat it too with these two fields of study.</p>
<p>Source: Girlfriend’s a premed major, I’m an economics major.</p>
<p>Business classes, by and large, are not very difficult. But what happens is you first have the college’s gen ed core, then you have a business core on top of that. Some gen ed classes will be germane to medical admissions (e.g. biology or chemistry to cover the science requirement) and some to a business major (e.g. microeconomics for a social studies). However, my experience as an accounting student (in the dark ages) was that there was never enough time to explores areas of interest outside of business. </p>
<p>One could probably do an economics major and still get enough time to cover the premed classes. However, my knowledge of MCAT is virtually nonexistent. If you want to go to med school, do everything in your power to get there.</p>
<p>I’ve always heard Economics is superior to Business when it comes to pre-med. Medical schools question the academic rigor of Business courses. However, dental schools like Business majors if you change your mind.</p>