<p>If I were planning on entering into the medical field, what Major would I choose at Yale. Some schools have the Pre-Professional Medicine/Law as their own majors, what would Yale's be. Biology?</p>
<p>usually molecular biology (mcdb) or molecular biophysics and biochemistry (mb&b). however, lots of pre-meds come out of non-science majors as well, so if there's something else you're really interested in, as long as you're willing to take the science classes on the side, go for it :)</p>
<p>Yep yep. I agree wholeheartedly with Athena. I'm currently taking an MCAT prep course with a couple of history majors and an English major. Just get a good science foundation, and you'll be set no matter what you major in during undergrad.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the help, do you think Chemistry would be adequate?</p>
<p>Chemistry - as a basic science - would definitely be a good major for a premed if that's what you're interested in.</p>
<p>As Athena mentioned, you just need to make sure to meet the premed requirements that are not also required for your major. As a chem major, you'll obviously meet the chemistry and organic chemistry requirements. In addition, the blue book mentions the following about the chemistry major:</p>
<p>[Prerequisites. Each core sequence contains a course in physical chemistry. MATH 112a or b, 115a or b (MATH 120a or b is recommended), and PHYS 180a, 181b (or 150a, 151b, or 200a, 201b) or their equivalents in advanced placement are prerequisites for the physical chemistry courses.]</p>
<p>Thus, you'll also meet your math and physics course requirements through the major itself. However, as a premed, you would have to take a year of physics labs (165/166 or 200/201) as well as two semesters of biology with labs. Also, you'll have to take a year of English.</p>
<p>So as you can see, the major advantage of majoring in a science is that your premed requirements and your major requirements often overlap, killing two birds with one stone. However, you don't have be <em>certain</em> about your major when you set foot onto campus. Since the basic science prerequisites for many majors overlap - and since you'd have to take those courses anyway for premed requirements - you have plenty of time to decide.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the input, I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think that almost any of the science majors would put you in pretty good shape as a pre-med... I'm a chemistry major (not pre-med, but I have a ton of friends who are), and it would be pretty easy for me to add on a few extra classes to my (proposed) course schedules to meet pre-med requirements. But yeah, as thesmartazz said, you really don't have to be certain about your major when you come to campus. Take some chem & some bio freshman year, or chem and physics, or whatever, and decide which courses you enjoy the most. Then you'll be in a better position to make an informed decision about your major. And almost anything you pick in the sciences will put you well on your way to satisfying pre-med requirements.</p>