<p>If you don't get into med school? What can you really do with your pre-med major in (ex. biology,chem, health sci, life sci, etc)</p>
<p>I am currently a math/comp sci major, with some intentions of med school. Is this a better path in the sense of risk?</p>
<p>Most schools don’t even offer pre-med as a major. What most people do is just get the prerequisites out of the way and major in something they really enjoy studying or something that leads to a fallback career. If you’re absolutely sure you want to go to med school, if your school offers pre-med as a major I’d take it-- however judging by your “some intentions of med school” you should probably just fulfill the pre-reqs and major in something else you enjoy</p>
<p>Let me say from the start, both my kiddos were math majors. Both also had a second major [physics, neoroscience]. Both had alternative career paths mapped should they not be accepted into med school. (PhD in health physics or MS/PhD in biostatistics/epidemiology) Fortunately neither one needed their alternative.</p>
<p>The son of poster here is earning a CS degree and applying to med school this cycle.</p>
<p>Jeeeed is correct, you don’t need to be a bio, biochem or chem major to go med school. You just need to fulfill the required pre-reqs and score well on the MCAT.</p>
<p>The risk all lays how well you do in your CS/math classes. If you are a strong math student with good time management skills and earn all or mostly As, then it’s fine. If you’re not–then it can tank your chances. GPA is extremely important for med school applicants. You will be taking multiple science and math classes at the same time—labs and programming classes take huge chunks of time. You will still need to find time to be ‘well rounded’ and engage in medical and non-medical community service, research, and other expected pre med activities.</p>
<p>The other issue is fitting all the med school pre-reqs into your schedule. You’ll need 5 semesters of chem, plus 2 semesters each of bio, physics and English; and 1 semester each of sociology and psychology. You will need to plan your coursework carefully from freshman year onwards to make sure you have all these completed by the end of junior year if you plan to enter med school directly after graduation.</p>
<p>If you can handle the load, why not? CS is very time consuming, you will be debugging your programs forever and ever, you mind will constantly think about them. Can you multitask and go over Orgo material before the test? You will have to. Ask yourself, everybody is very different…Pre-med is not a major, I believe that that you are thinking about CS while taking Med. School pre-reqs. Also, most pre-meds are taking higher level Bio classes (helpful for the MCAT). They are as challenging (if not more) as Orgo. However, there are people out there who do even more challenging majors like engineering for pre-med. It all depends on your time management ability and how hard you are ready to work.</p>