<p>should i major in neuro science or psychology, for i am a pre-med. Furthermore, do med schools weigh psych majors less because it is an "easy major."</p>
<p>They dont care what you major in. You just need to fulfill the pre-med requirements. Neroscience would make it easier to get your reqs., but you can certainly do so majoring in psych. I major in biochem and psych and I am doing pretty well with the reqs for both majors and premed. It isnt to difficult neither, as you must take courses outside of your main major anyway. Say neuroscience is your main major, taking a psych major as well could fulfill much of the other req. needed to graduate. You can major in whatever you want (e.g. english) and still do well. Just follow your interested and fulfill the premed reqs. and you’ll be find.</p>
<p>Which major would be harder of the two? Do medical schools only care about premed gpa or also overall?</p>
<p>Neuroscience would be harder. Relative to difficulty science majors are the hardest right behind engineering. Psych is pretty easy to me while science classes require much more involvement. Organic chem this fall should be fun (harder than any psych class offered at my institution). Premed in general is challenging however. Most schools premed courses go deep enough into science as med school needs. Taking a neuroscience major probably will take you deeper into science than psych and premed alone. Your BCPM GPA (science gpa) is most important. However, your overall and non-science gpa is important too and should by nature be close to your science gpa. MCAT score and ECs are a big part of the application as well. I had a table of stats showing the % of applicants that got accepted into med school sorted by GPA and MCAT but it won’t load anymore. I will try to find it for you.</p>
<p>How is psychobiology? difficulty,coursework.</p>
<p>It all depends on the school. </p>
<p>D2 is neuroscience major–which is part of the biology dept of her school. She has to fulfill all bio dept requirements plus at least 5 additional courses like neuropsych, neurochem etc. She will take zero psych courses. None require. At her school it’s consider one of the more difficult majors because the sheer number of courses required. More than any other BS except engineering.</p>
<p>There is also a program at her school in cognitive studies–which is different still than neuroscience. (bio, psych, computer science and philosophy) </p>
<p>There’s also a psych dept at her school. And you can get a degree in neuropsychology.</p>
<p>Don’t get hung up on the name of the major. Look at the course of studies required for the degree. Neuroscience is a relative new field and there is no national consensus yet on what courses constitute a major—unlike physics which has a standard national curriculum, or English literature which needs to cover specific movements in literary development and time periods.</p>