<p>Just wondering :)
Anyone wants to speak out of experience? Or experience heard from people they know?
Want to get myself hyped up for what's coming haha</p>
<p>all of the pre-med students I know who have GPA’s that high essentially do this:
- they pick an easy major, something with few requirements that comes easily to them
- they spread their med requirements over 4 years so they only take 1 difficult class at a time</p>
<p>For example, I know a student majoring in Spanish who has spoken Spanish fluently since childhood, and he’s pre-med. I don’t even think that should be allowed to be honest but the Spanish major is a lot more than just language, it’s also culture.</p>
<p>Hmmmm I wanted my major to be neural science but I guess I should rethink that since it is one of the hardest ones?</p>
<p>Also which majors are easy majors at NYU? Since everything various by schools</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, my one of my parents works with residents in a teaching hospital. He says that he has been getting many residents who did things like major in history, philosophy, political science, and then take all of their med school requirements as electives. I’m not saying they are “easy” majors, just a different skill set. His latest resident was a philosophy major in UG who went to Dartmouth Medical School. </p>
<p>You are better off picking something in CAS, because it will be easier for you to cross-register the CAS science classes if you are already a CAS student.</p>
<p>I am in CAS, would a sociology major be an easy alternative? Or is that still to science-based?</p>
<p>I feel like it’s not a great idea to pick your major based on supposed “easiness.” Pick a major that you are actually interested in; if you are passionate about it and willing to work for it, you should be able to, in theory, maintain a decent GPA.</p>
<p>^ I agree ,but the reality is many college students are here to have fun (especially in NYC) and not everyone wants to double major in Physics and Chinese Mandarin, you know? Especially if your goal is to get a high GPA. Also, it’s not hard to become interested in a number of subjects if you take the classes - I’m a science major but when I take History classes I become interested in History, so I could’ve potentially studied that instead, who knows.</p>
<p>To tack onto what MAP said, 50% of pre-health students don’t study science. Don’t feel pressured to pick any particular major. Do focus on grades and visit the pre-professional advising office freshmen year to talk to an advisor.</p>
<p>And keep in mind that a 3.8+ GPA is very high, it’s not like HS where A’s come easy (in any major). Just sayin’ :)</p>
<p>Would anyone say that Sociology is a relatively easy major? It is what I would major in if I didn’t want a career in medicine</p>
<p>^ Once again, your major is irrelevant if you’re planning to attend med school - currently half of med students have undergrad degrees in non-science majors. So if you want to major in Sociology, go ahead. Med schools want students from different backgrounds. I hear in med schools there are even classes where students study how ethnicity, gender and economic background of patients factor into health and medicine - a Sociology background could be helpful there, who knows. </p>
<p>Here at NYU, it seems a lot of premed students are Psychology majors. Or at least that’s what it felt like freshmen year when every other person in Gen Chem said they were premed/psych.</p>
<p>Is Psychology a difficult major at NYU?</p>
<p>All of these “is X major hard?” questions are impossible to answer. </p>
<p>We don’t know what comes easy to you, how hard you work, what your weakness and strengths are. We don’t know if you can write papers really well, or if you struggle with research, or if you can process lots of reading. </p>
<p>You want a real answer? Go on the major website and look at the major requirements and then think of what you excelled in, in high school. Then REALLY THINK about whether those things interest you. </p>
<p>Lots of majors have electives that can make a major “harder” or “easier”. As a media major, I could have taken all of my electives as marketing and public relations, which are ‘easy’. Instead, I took media research classes, cultural theory and critical theory. </p>
<p>You know yourself best. Look at the offered classes in the major and turn inward, not on some random college forum.</p>