IK u can go overseas but other than that
what could U do with your premed,bio and chem backgound to get a decent amount of money ?
Probably go on to get a master’s or PhD if you want to use the major. There are a lot of underemployed bio majors out there, Chem as well.
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you can try again for a US med school after improving your CV for a year or two
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you can go to grad school in the same field as your major.
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you can pursue a grad degree in a related field (like biomedical engineering, neural engineering, biostatistics, public health, health policy administration, hospital administration, medical record management, medical/science librarian…)
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you can pursue some other health profession. Try looking through this site for ideas-- [Explore Healthcare Careers](https://explorehealthcareers.org)
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you can find a job in related field (Try reading this article to get some ideas of what kinds of jobs a bio major can pursue-- [10 Hot Jobs for Biology Majors](Jobs for Graduates With a Biology Degree) and [What Can You Do with a Biology Major?](Top Biology Degree Jobs)) Also state & federal governments hire plenty of bio majors to work in science (though not medical) fields. There are many laboratory or clinical research assistant jobs for bio & chem majors in academic centers, the NIH and other research institutions,
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you can teach high school science or, in some places, community college
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you can find a job in an un-related field such as finance, business, government, insurance.
Going abroad for med school is a very poor idea. US IMGs (international medical grads) currently only have a 40% chance of matching into a US medical residency–and the odds of an IMG matching are declining as the number of US medical grads rises. A US residency is required to practice medicine in the US.
Because so many med school applicants do not get accepted into medical school (currently about 60% of applicants don’t…), every pre med needs to have a Plan B.
Are you currently in college?
The OP is high school senior who will be attending college in the fall.
yes … im just wondering … @WayOutWestMom @MYOS1634
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well, about 75% high school seniors who think they’d like to be premed never make it to the application stage. Among those that DO make it, about half never make it into med school.
So… For 90% HS students who think they want to be doctors, it’s not happening.
Hopefully they didn’t major in biology, but in English or History or Economics or Bioinformatics or Data Science, they have internships on their resume as well as medical experience, they have both leadership roles and demonstrable impact through their on-campus involvement, helped RAM, perhaps they got involved in research and impressed their PI with their dedication and iniative so got a paper at a conference or even published. So, they find a job. Perhaps, after 2-3 years, they reapply. If they didn’t major in a science, they attend a special program where they study science intensively and then apply to med school. They include MD and DO schools since both are doctors in the end. Or perhaps they figure that graduating in 2 years with a PA degree that leads to a 90K salary is just as good as attending med school for five or six more years. Or they join an organization for community health or reproductive rights advocacy or join the Peace Corps or run for something to get elected and help the health situation. Or they totally switch tracks and do something else entirely.
I’ll add:
even if your college has a “premed major”, don’t major in that. Choose a subject-based major.
Due to the oversupply of jobless majors, avoid biology.
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, data science, biochemistry with applied statistics, biopsychology can keep you doing sciences yet have a job. Add a philosophy or bioethics or public health or women’s studies or african american studies minor if you can - you need to pass the first cut, which will be GPA, science GPA, and MCAT, but these minors are likely to help at the interview stage. They will not make up for poor grades in the major or premed prereqs though.
English, History, Foreign Languages, Philosophy, Music are all good majors for premeds (you have to be good at those AND the premed pre-reqs but med schools like it if you can hande the rigor in two different fields and be excellent at both).
You can add a statistics or CS/IST minor to these majors if you fear the job market. For these majors overall a top 100 university/LAC is preferable.
Economics, Analytics, CS, IST are “plan B” majors - they are ok for med school, and lead to good jobs if med school doesn’t pan out.
Roughly speaking, you must be able to handle the science AND the humanities, the workload AND the professional experiences. You become a pro at balancing your schedule. Your 4-year plan, based on university documents, is ready but you alter it often to make sure it matches your situation. You have to be super organized, efficient, manage your time well, know even as a second week freshman that of course you’re not going to party on week days even if no parent watches, you must get involved, stay in shape, stay healthy, stay on top of everything, stay in touch with your adviser, go to office hours, go to study review, form or join a study group, unwind in a productive way.
Now you know why most seniors in high school don’t make it.
Also: slow and steady wins the race.
First semester, take Bio OR Chem + calculus, then your gen eds. Second semester, have bio, chem, stats, psych, one more gen ed. Summer: either chem or bio.
Sophomore year, Organic chem means everything else is classes you know you’ll be okay in.
@MYOS1634 what would you recommend me for my major and minors if my plan B would be to be an economist?
thank you
If you want to be an economist (ie., a researcher in the field of economics), you should major in math and/or statistics and/or data science, with an economics minor.
For the record, I don’t think study groups are anywhere close to a necessity. I also don’t think all unwinding must be productive (although I might be taking this to mean something different than what you meant). For example, I definitely had friday or saturday nights where I wanted to not work and blow off steam but I had a lot of work to do that weekend and so instead of going out and getting drunk which would mean sleeping until the afternoon and then waking up hungover, I would do something sober (e.g. play video games, watch a movie, etc) and so even though I wasn’t doing anything productive, I was able to be much more productive the following day even though I spent the same number of hours not doing work that night.
Yes, I meant ‘finding ways to unwind they don’t result in incapacitating yourself’ 
Study groups are not mandatory but they’re another way to study and can be more fun than studying alone.