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<p>Well, if your two pathways are either entering a top-MBA program or becoming a patent lawyer, then I would think seriously about majoring in engineering. Granted, such a switch is far from guaranteed, but if you can make it, then you will both obtain the technical background that the USPTO requires for applicants to the patent bar, and with a Berkeley engineering degree, then, at the very worst, you will surely be able to obtain some sort of engineering job upon graduation (in case you can’t garner an offer from one of the ‘MBA gateway’ tracks of consulting or finance). An engineering position can serve as a respectable foundation for a future MBA candidacy, certainly more so than a basic lab-assistant position one might obtain with a pure science undergrad degree. {For those who might object, let’s be perfectly frank: you can’t really do that much with just a bio/chem/physics undergrad degree.}</p>