Please Chance Son for PSU UP

Applied Oct 13 to PSU UP
Biology
The application is “currently under review”
3.95 W
3.67 UW
1380 SAT - 1410 Super score
DR
15 Honors/IB
NHS, Academic letters, Presidential Academic Award
Volunteer community service, sports, work
PSU has been my son’s dream school

Good odds.
But why biology? It’s the major with the lowest ROI (lower than Psychology or English) because most pre-meds pick biology and fail to get into med school so there’s a big oversupply of them on the job market.
Better professional prospects with biostatistics or bioinformatics.

@MYOS1634 , random question about the premed track: do you have any thoughts on some of the other premed-type majors at UP: Immunology out of Ag, Psych-Neuro out of Liberal Arts, Biobehavioral Health our of HHD, Biotechnology or Biochem out of Eberly? Which majors might you encourage a student to investigate. Wish we had a pure bioinformatics major.

@MYOS1634, my son wanted Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences instead of Biology. Do you think this will be a better option?

Yes, it’s in the Ag college which is one of the easiest to get into and they have nice scholarships