Pre-Medical Major

Pre-Med & Medical School
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Hi! I was wondering if Child/Adolescent Development would be an okay major for pre-med? I for sure want to go into peds but I’m hesitant to major in a non-science.

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You can literally major in anything you want. Maintain a good GPA and score well on MCAT.

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You can major in anything you want to major in for undergrad school….as long as you take the courses required for medical school applicants.

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Medical school accepts students with all kinds of majors–from engineering, math and computer science to music, theology and foreign languages and everything imaginable in between.

In the 2021-22 application cycle, ~5600 social science majors applied to med ical school and ~2000 of them were accepted. At 35%, their rate of acceptance is about the same as bio and chem majors.

Table A-17: MCAT and GPAs for Applicants and Matriculants to U.S. MD-Granting Medical Schools by Primary Undergraduate Major, 2021-2022

Just be sure to fulfill your core admission coursework requirements in biology, chemistry, math, physics and writing.

The only downside to majoring in a non-science is that you will have fewer science credit to dilute any non-A grades earned in science classes in your sGPA.

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