<p>Hey guys, a friend of mine keeps telling me that instead of doing a pre med major at FSU/USF, I should instead major in chemistry with a minor in biology or vice versa. He says med schools would much rather see this. Does this make any sense to you?</p>
<p>Med schools don’t care what you really major in, as long you have a high GPA, and excellent MCAT scores. You should take pre-requisite courses though, and should avoid any major with a pre- in front of it. Med school is hard to get into and usually only a few chosen elite get in, so major in something that you can fall back on.</p>
<p>Any majors you would recommend for a fallback? and what is a good science major since you said anything with “pre” should be avoided? (sorry for all the questions, my school counselors dont really help and my parents dont understand all this college stuff, im 1st generation english speaking)</p>
<p>Anything that isn’t Biology or Chemistry to be honest. Chemistry I guess offers more option than Biology, but still not enough as a fallback with a simple Bachelors. Physics, Engineering, Math, anything that requires quantitative skills are most useful. This is because businesses require math, so even science majors can go into business as a last resort.</p>
<p>How would something such as biomedical engineering be? Do I even really need to be too worried about this now or once I get to my sophomore year in college?</p>
<p>Biomed is a great option! Going to engineering for some schools typically require you to go in sometime in the first year, or you fall behind. Prepare well, and do your research. Best of luck!</p>
<p>How much would biomedical engineering prepare me for the MCAT? thanks in advance</p>
<p>Pre-med is not a major!!!</p>
<p>Don’t listen to friends or anyone else. I was tricked by my parents who were obsessed with useless biomedical sciences since my mom’s a nurse and thinks doctors and pharmacists are gods or something, while my dad was a chemistry major that doesn’t know anything about bio so when he went to work at a pharmaceutical plant he looks up to people that know bio like gods. </p>
<p>Talk to professors, counselors and people online. We have no hidden motive to trick you, since its useless. You cannot trust anyone else. Not your friends, not your parents, no one. They will trap you into the cycle of poverty, biology, and starvation.</p>
<p>Bio sucks and if sitting in front of automated instruments all day and crunching numbers on Excel is what you LOVE to do, Chemistry is for you, but not otherwise. What, you thought Chemistry was actually about CHEMICALS and actually MAKING stuff? No way! That’s chemical engineering. Chemistry is about setting up instruments to analyze tiny samples and then crunching numbers on Excel. That’s what I did in my internship, put samples in the machine, crunch numbers that came out of the machine yesterday, and then next day, put more samples in and crunch the numbers from the day before…</p>
<p>Stay the hell away from BME. It’s the Bio of engineering: low wages and no one hires at the BS level. Every single one of my friends that did BME wanted to switch out year 3 but due to course structures, the school trapped them in BME.</p>
<p>So then what type of major would you recommend for a good MCAT/Med school prep if not Bio or BME? The whole medical field seems like it sucks from what I read on here.</p>
<p>Bio/premed sucks, chemistry sucks, liberal arts suck. Anything that uses a computer for things more than excel number crunching is good, except BME, because BME sucks too.</p>
<p>You see, medicine is a cartel and biology is a trick. The regime in Washington has decided that biotech is the next industrial revolution. As we all know, industrial revolutions are built on the backs of millions of slaves. It was like that in the first one and it’ll be like that now. But how do you get so many low wage slaves that also know bio? Simple. Dangle the prospect of this thing called “medical school” in front of them, along with prerequisite traps designed to keep people in, and the possibility to go into 200k debt to make some more money later along with propaganda about life saving and helping the environment <em>haha</em>.</p>
<p>As others have said there is no such thing as a premed major</p>
<p>Just for the sake of argument let’s say there was one, and someone made it their major and didn’t go to medical school, how hard and embarrassing would it be to explain in job interviews, and possible other programs why you picked such a worthless major that equipped you with no life skills other than matriculation in to med school, I say this because ive thought hard about this because of my current useless major…</p>
<p>With that being said I am a bio major because it’s something I find interesting and easily grasp, I plan to go to med school and will be useless in the job market if I don’t go, but I can always BS why I picked bio, no one could BS why they picked “pre med” which is why it doesn’t exist, although my school has a pre-health major program, it’s essentially just a choice between BIO or neuroscience as a major, adding all prereqs into your curriculum</p>
<p>I’d say Chemistry because it is also good for pharm school if you don’t get into med school. I think Chem comes with a year of physics so you are also covered for optometry school.</p>
<p>If you are doing anything science (by that I qualify as meaning chem or bio) related have a plan B, C, D, E, F… and don’t ever plan on settling for a simple science degree as that will not get you a good career.</p>
<p>@Amalgamate1 Makes perfect sense. I didnt really mean “Pre med” when I said pre med or chemistry. I actually meant Biology but your post makes it all clear. thanks. @sschoe2 are u by any chance a chem major</p>
<p>Unfortunately… MS Chemistry with specialization in Biological chem and Molecular Bio.</p>
<p>So you wouldnt recommend someone to do Biomedical Engineering as their major if they werent completely interested in it?</p>
<p>If you are concerned about job and career prospects of different majors, look here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a></p>
<p>Bioengineering, while better than biology in terms of job and career prospects, is not as good as some other types of engineering.</p>
<p>So your saying that you wouldnt recommend these majors?</p>
<p>Do not go into college thinking that its going to guarantee a job. You might as well go to a tech school if thats what you want, but even then its no guarantee. In fact, most employers laugh at graduates from tech school’s because you learn absolutely nothing. Trust me, been there, done that. Now, after having said that. Go to college if you wish to pursue a higher education. The rest will figure itself out. Pick a major you like, get good grades, get involved in school clubs and internships. That is the best advice I can give you. Even if you do pick something that will get you a good job, but second guess it because you didn’t do something you wanted to pursue, that feeling will start to eat away at you and you will live with regret for the rest of you life.</p>
<p>That is very idealistic advice that does not work in this increasingly nonideal world. I used to really like science until I had to make a decent living to pay bills. </p>
<p>You need to pick a major that teaches you a bonafide profession, accounting, finance, HR, pharmacy, engineering, medicine. Gone are the days where you could major in some interesting esoteric BA, get an entry level job, and be trained in the profession. A lot of BA grads are not stuck at Walmart and will never get anywhere.</p>