Major: undecided or bio related?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I am an international student planning to study as a pre med in US.
Excluding the fact that I am not a green card holder, please advise me in my major.</p>

<p>My Profile:
2300 SAT
34 ACT
5 AP world history, economics(micro), Calculus BC, Psychology
4 AP economics(macro), biology, chemistry</p>

<p>My ECs are kind of weak, I have some school awards and joined the school's orchestra club and newspaper club. Overall, my ECs are weak, and my only biology related ECs are a contest participation, 2 research papers on insulin resistance (not extensive), and a summer vacation medical camp. However, even these are really weak and don't have much to talk about.</p>

<p>So, should I apply to university as undecided or should I choose from: biochemistry, biology, and etc? Does it apply for CAS as well?</p>

<p>Also, I am applying to Brown University's PLME program, but since that's a pre med specific program, am I required to apply as a biology related field? Is it favorable?</p>

<p>Again, please consider that my biology related ECs are really weak, meaning there's nothing in particular that stands out. I don't even have a lot of volunteer work done either, not at a hospital or anywhere else. I have bits of other ECs though. Not awesome, but okay.</p>

<p>I know PLME and med school as a whole is a long shot for me, especially with my international student status and weak science ECs, but I still wanted to ask.</p>

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<p>If you use the Search function on this forum for ‘major’, you will find many threads that ask about UG major as a premed. The resounding answer is to major in whatever you like and will do well in.</p>

<p>As far as applying to an UG college, they don’t care that you’re premed (many drop out of premed during UG), so apply in any major that you like.</p>

<p>Unless PLME stipulates that you must declare a science major, then they don’t care. But either way, you’re going to have to show you have a strong academic and medical background to be considered.</p>

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<p>I understand that even if I am premed, the colleges won’t care about what major I enter in as. So, even with my weaker ECs in biology, it won’t hurt my chances of getting into the undergrad college even if I apply as a biology major or an undecided major? that is, the major I decide won’t affect my undergrad admission chances?</p>

<p>By the way, I’m determined to do well in undergrad and might receive permanent residency before applying regular decision.</p>

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<p>Brown has no major requirement and it is one school where it won’t matter what you study, assuming you can get into something as prestigious as PLME.</p>

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<p>There are very few situations where the major you put on your application matters for acceptance because UGs change majors so often. </p>

<p>It could matter if you’re applying to a specific school within a college (eg. architecture at CMU), or if you’re a desired applicant for some reason (eg. URM female in engineering with demonstrated interest/achievement, Classics with demonstrated chops in the field).</p>

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<p>Thanks, I think nearly all of my application concerns have been answered. So, since I am interested in biochemistry and molecular engineering, I think I will submit my form as one of those. That will be easier for me to explain in my essays as well, I think.</p>