Getting a MPP or PhD with a BS/MS in Biology

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<p>I've just graduated from UCSD with a BS in Biology, and am currently pursuing a MS in Biology as a part of a BS/MS program.</p>

<p>This was all supposed to prepare me to go to med school, but I've recently decided I don't really want to go. Question is: how do I do something I am interested in, e.g. politics or sociology? I graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.8, magna cum laude, and am in Phi Beta Kappa. However, I have no background in the social sciences at all.</p>

<p>I was thinking of applying for an MPP and trying to parlay that into a PhD in Econ, Poli Sci or Soc -- is any of this feasible?</p>

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<p>Law.</p>

<p>Sorry, knee-jerk response. Runs in the blood (grandfather was a judge, father and uncle are lawyers, cousin’s studying law at USC now…). But it would get you into politics.</p>