<p>I want to major in Math and be pre-med as well. If though, my plans change and I no longer want to go into medicine I want to be in a position where my math degree will be helpful and I'll be able to get a job of my choice/ get into a good grad school. I like Emory but don't know if they have a good enough Math program and was wondering how much which school I go to will matter.</p>
<p>Math major requirements are usually not so heavy that it would be difficult to take the pre-med courses alongside.</p>
<p>Many state flagship universities are good for math; find out if this is true for the one in your state of residency.</p>
<p>Since a math degree needs a grad degree to do anything with, as long as you go to a decent school, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>My son was a math major and is now in a PhD program. His classmates went to schools ranging from Ivies, to Harvey Mudd, to Flagships and regional publics…and some little known privates.</p>
<p>Just like for med school, you need great grades, great scores (GREs in this case), and great LORs. </p>
<p>If you can, go to an undergrad that will let you get a masters or take grad school classes as an undergrad. That will also help for grad school…if you decide against medicine. </p>
<p>Are you interested in Pure Math or Applied Math?</p>
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Huh? We use math majors in all kinds of our work. No grad degree required in the world of work.</p>
<p>S is graduating with a math degree this spring and will be headed off to an outstanding programming gig before heading to grad school.</p>
<p>OP, if you are looking at med school, strongly consider a school where you can graduate without heavy debt. Med school loans are deadly enough. The biggest issue you may run into is if math and pre-med are in different schools within the university and therefore have different requirements. A friend of our was a cell physiology and genetics major and wanted to add astrophysics, but the core requirements for Life Sciences vs. Physical Sciences were just too disparate. OTOH, a math/CS double major at the same school was very easy to accomplish. </p>
<p>Are you thinking about bioinformatics? That may be one way to tie the two interests together. Also remember that “pre med” can major in almost anything as long as you hit the requirements that med schools want to see.</p>
<p>Look for schools you can double major. Perhaps you can double major in math and science, or do a major and a minor.</p>
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I’m not really sure which of these is true, so some clarification would be nice. I don’t want to go into teaching though, I saw on this website some cool things you can do with a math major that I might want to go into, and it looks like there are a variety of things you could do.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> Mathematics Department](<a href=“http://www.math.duke.edu/major/whyMajor.html]Duke”>http://www.math.duke.edu/major/whyMajor.html)</p>
<p>Also, I would consider combining it with a comp sci minor, or double major. I guess I’ll decide more on that once I’m in college and know more about whether or not I plan on going to med school.</p>
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<p>I think Emory has this, not sure about Cornell and Tufts which are my other 2 top choices.</p>
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<p>most if not all of the schools I’m looking at have a college or art and science which math and biology are both in.</p>
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Would Math/CS pre-med not work then? because everyone is telling me to major in WHATEVER I want for pre-med, and I don’t understand why they would say that if I couldn’t really do that.</p>
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Many of my top schools don’t offer that, and I don’t know if I like it or not. Cornell does offer Biometry, which I might do if I end up there. Does a bioinformatics major have many of the same job prospects as a math major?</p>
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<p>As long as the math major at the school you attend leaves you sufficient free elective space to take the pre-med courses, then it should not be an issue.</p>
<p>Would Math/CS pre-med not work then? because everyone is telling me to major in WHATEVER I want for pre-med, and I don’t understand why they would say that if I couldn’t really do that.</p>
<p>Sure…who is saying that you can’t do Math/CS pre-med? Unless the concern is that you can’t fit it all in. </p>
<p>My kids’ school has a CS pre-med and a CS pre-law track.
<a href=“http://coeweb.eng.ua.edu/fep/pdf/ComputerScience_PreMed_PreLaw.pdf[/url]”>http://coeweb.eng.ua.edu/fep/pdf/ComputerScience_PreMed_PreLaw.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you could fit it in, a math minor or double major is possible, but may be only at a school that allows a lot of AP credits for non-pre-med pre-reqs. One issue with a double major CS/Math is that those are often under two different colleges…CofE and A&S (or whatever the univ calls it), so you could end up with more Core Req’ts.</p>
<p>I would think a CS degree with pre-med pre-reqs…and maybe a Statistical Math minor might be good. </p>
<p>And, remember, you can’t use APs to replace science pre-med pre-reqs.</p>
<p>*The biggest issue you may run into is if math and pre-med are in different schools within the university and therefore have different requirements. *</p>
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<p>Pre-med isn’t a major so it’s not in a different “school.”</p>
<p>Actually, at all the schools I’ve looked at CS/Math have been in the same school, at Emory there is even a joint major of Math and CS, although, I’m not sure if that is as good or not. I actually don’t even know if I want CS or not yet, since I’ve never taken a course. It looks to me though like many Math jobs are heavy in CS so it seems like it would be very helpful.</p>
<p>Many math majors go into modeling and simulation which is used in many industries and for which CS is a good double major or major/minor option.</p>