<p>Is Computer Science a good major to pair with pre-med? Or would it be too rigorous/unrelated?</p>
<p>I truly think it’s up to your interests. I’m assuming you’re in highschool and planning your undergraduate. If you’re used to a fairly rigorous schedule (a good amount of AP classes) and you believe you have the work ethic to accomplish it, then I’d say go for it. </p>
<p>From everything I’ve heard and read, if you know you want to go to medical school and are very confident that you can, then it easier to do Biology, Chemistry, or another major that is more related. If you do Comp Sci, you’ll have to plan well in order to fit all of the medical school prereqs, most of which you wouldn’t need to take if you weren’t going to medical school. For that reason, I would say it’s not the best major to pair with premed. </p>
<p>I can assure you it’s possible to do a major unrelated to premed while still taking the prereqs and having a good GPA. It’s really all about truly wanting it and being able to put in the time. Keep in mind that this is four years of your life during a time when you will be deciding who you are and what you want to be, and your degree/experiences will go much further than simply meeting the prereqs to get into medical school. </p>
<p>Summary: If you enjoy programming and computers, do computer science with premed. Work hard and you won’t regret it.</p>
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<p>In today’s world, is there anything “unrelated” to computer science?</p>
<p>Major in anything you want, It doesn’t really what you major in, as long as you get those prereq’s in college and get a good score on the MCAT, then you’re golden. Acurtiz has good advice.</p>
<p>Yes, it is very very unrelated. And CS is extremely time consuming - this is from IT proffessional who still remember sitting in Computer lab past midnight debugging my programs at CC. I imagine that most assignemnts could be done from home any more. Still will have to spend many hours every day debugging your very simple programs.
On the other side, D. is in Med. School, so I know the requirements. Pre-meds are pushed. They have to maintain very high GPA, they have to prep. for MCAT in junior year (spending up to 4 or so hours / day for several weeks or several months - depending on your personal schedule and ability to prepare for MCAT), they have to travel to Med. School interviews in senior year. All along concurrent with everything else, they have to be involved in medically related ECs (volunteering, shadowing, Med. Research internships) and preferrably have a job as most UGs do. Your college GPA better be 3.6+ and it will include your CS classes.<br>
Still 3rd point, my own D. graduated with minor - in Music Composition. It has helped her because it was very easy for her. But do not think that she did not spend time practicing her singing and some other skills as she knew that she will be in the same classes with Music Majors who have had more music training before college, including voice lessons. She knew that she could not afford many B’s, no matter what class she was taking.
Still, point 4, Med. Schools will care a bit about your majors/minors. They will care whole lot about your college GPA and MCAT score and your various medically related EC’s.
I am sure that you hear many other pros and cons. Put them all on one sheet of paper, sit down with cool head, study it and then decide.</p>