<p>does anyone know which college offer the best neuroscience and behavior undergraduate major programs?</p>
<p>im looking to major in this and become a pschyciatrist </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>also, is it easier to gain entrance into med school if you are becoming a pschyiatrist?</p>
<p>and are there other majors i should look into for my possible career?</p>
<p>2.) Nope. Specialty choices are so notoriously fickle that medical schools won't place a lot of credence into them. Most don't even ask anymore.
3.) Undergrad major has very little to do with your eventual specialty. You could major in economics or physics and it wouldn't matter.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt has a very strong Neuroscience major that med schools give credit for when calculating GPA. Since I'm not a Neuroscience major I can't really help you any farther than that but you should check it out.</p>
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<p>... is this special?</p>
<p>thanks ill definitley look into vanderbilt!</p>
<p>does anyone else know of any schools that med schools give credit for when calculating GPA?</p>
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<p>Yes. All of them. Every single last one of them. What is departed talking about?</p>
<p>so does majoring in nueroscience and behavior look better on the application?</p>
<p>No. Declared major doesn't matter so long as it's something academic. Again, I have no idea what departed was trying to say.</p>
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Well, obviously. The courses factor in when they're calculating your GPA. Why he considers this special is beyond me.</p>
<p>I think he meant that med schools will add 0.2 to your GPA if you major in neuroscience at Vandy.</p>
<p>What the...</p>
<p>Maybe it's just Vandy's Med School?</p>
<p>Seems kinda wrong to me..no offense..</p>
<p>What..? Is that really true, even if only in regards to Vandy med school?</p>
<p>I was just being hypothetical...</p>
<p>I think the take-home lesson is:</p>
<p>your major does not matter enough for it to impact anything you might choose regarding med school admission, so long as it is academic and not vocational. </p>
<p>Nor does any notion of your intended specialty make a difference for medical school admission, which I think is totally irrelevant for someone who is applying to medical school straight out of college. Now the following statements are purely my thoughts and I make no claim as to their veracity, but I assume that in some cases, such as someone who is a paramedic for several years before deciding to apply to medical school, or someone who is a psychologist by training (ie, MS or PhD in psychology and several years of working in psych), would be given more credence with statements like "I want to go into emergency medicine" or "I want to be a psychiatrist", and their intended specialty might actually factor into their admittance.</p>
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<p>Actually, I've been asked about prospective specialties at just about every interview. Obviously, med schools don't care what the answer is or even if you say that you don't know. But, if you choose to answer, I think they use it as just another gauge of your personality. "I'm thinking about becoming a surgeon because I like being on my feet." "I want to become a psychiatrist because I'm a good listener." "I'm interested in radiology because I like solving problems." "I've wanted to be a neurosurgeon from Johns Hopkins since I was eight." Okay, maybe there are bad answers to this question.</p>
<p>I want to go to Johns Hopkins medical school so that I can be expelled for cheating, then continue on my life's journey to University of Michigan medical school and become a diagnostician in a New Jersey hospital.</p>
<p>No joke.</p>
<p>I meant that initially the neuroscience major here was under the psychology department. Those classes were not factored into the "BCPM (?)" GPA but when neuroscience became its own major those grades soon were accounted for in that GPA.</p>
<p>No, that's incorrect.
Only a couple of classes are now factored in. The majority still fall under the psychology dept. Neuroscience still is considered an interdisciplinary major. </p>
<p>OP: That may be worth keeping in mind when considering an undergrad school, if you are certain you want to do this major.</p>
<p>??Neuroscience is its own major at Vanderbilt...</p>
<p>Don't worry about what goes into BCPM. Unless you do poorly in the "core" premed classes and the major is considered very easy, it won't matter. Plus, this is hardly unique to Vanderbilt. Any school with a neuroscience department will have some or most of its classes fall under BCPM.</p>
<p>In other words: it's not unique and wouldn't matter even if it were.</p>