<p>I heard from somewhere that Pre-Med majors have just under a 50% chance of getting into medical school.
However, what I was wondering is, what would essentially happen if a Pre-Med major did not get into medical school at all, despite essentially studying for the MCATs and having a pretty solid GPA. Can a Pre-Med major who didn't get into medical school be able to branch out and do other things related to their field?</p>
<p>You don’t major in pre-med. You major in something else while taking the pre-med courses (chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, physics, English writing, sometimes calculus and/or statistics).</p>
<p>A large percentage of pre-meds major in biology, since biology major requirements include the pre-med courses anyway. However, biology majors have relatively poor job and career prospects at the bachelor’s degree level, possibly because of the large number of pre-meds who did not get into medical school competing for the low paid lab technician jobs.</p>
<p>But pre-med courses can be done alongside non-biology majors like math, statistics, economics, etc. (although it may be harder to do so if the major has a lot of non-overlapping requirements, like engineering (other than bioengineering or chemical engineering) or business). Some such majors can be useful supporting majors to a medical career (e.g. business can help a physician in private or small group practice) or offer backup job and career options if one does not get into medical school.</p>
<p>Make sure you have the prerequisites for Dental, Pharm, optometry, physical therapy as your plans b, c,d, e…, otherwise any science related major is useless.</p>
<p>Reviving old thread. I haven’t logged into CC in such a while…</p>
<p>@sschoe2: can you please elaborate on the “any science related major is useless” part? I don’t see how a science related major would be useless, especially if it’s a subject that the student is passionate about and enjoys very much.</p>
<p>Because science majors outside of physics are watered down. You learn less chemistry in a B.S. Chemistry program than you do in a B.S. Chemical Engineering program. Medicine is a cartel.</p>
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<p>In terms of job and career prospects at the bachelor’s level, chemistry and biology do poorly (note: chemical engineering does much better than chemistry). Physics, math, statistics, and computer science do pretty well. You can take a look at career surveys of graduates from schools like UC Berkeley, Cal Poly, CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, and Purdue to see this.</p>
Chemistry definitely has a far stronger chemistry basis than chemical engineering. Chemical engineering only differs in that they focus on fluids physics while chemists focus on quantum physics. Beside that, they are the same. Electives are what distinguish them. Many times people do electives in other engineering fields or science fields for the respective degrees.