<p>For what it is worth, my father was a successful surgeon and my brother and I were successful artists; both winning scholarships to well respected art schools. Unfortunately, dad wouldn't allow us to take them because he felt that "art was only a good hobby". Well, to make a long story short, brother and I went off to liberal arts colleges, became art majors, and are now very succesful physicians in the same town as dad. The only difference is that the years spent around other "non-science" majors allowed us to develop social skills, and a heart, that many of our science oriented classmates never figured out. Your son will be better off studying a passion and becoming a well rounded individual. Make sure he takes a few core "pre-med"courses for the heck of it. Who knows, he may find medicine the round-about way like many people do. My roommate was a math and economics major. Now he is an extremely well respected sports medicine surgeon in NYC. Bottom line is, if you do not enjoy doing what you do, what is the point of doing it?</p>