<p>I know you can't fully generalize, but what characteristics/interests do you think a person must have to pursue medicine, law, and business?</p>
<p>I am interested in all three and really want to figure out what I want to do.
I am a freshman at Northwestern and am currently taking General Chemistry as a premed.
However, I am really interested in business and law and although there are only a few courses required for premeds, I really do not want to take them unless I am sure I want to pursue medicine and not law or business.
I know orgo, bio, and physics would only bring my GPA down and severely hurt my chances of getting into a top law or business school.</p>
<p>If I am premed, I would just want to get into a medical school in the U.S.
If I am prelaw or prebusiness, I would definitely want to get into a TOP law or business school because this is where the graduate school makes a big difference in career/salary later.</p>
<p>I really am not sure which one to pursue wholeheartedly and am trying to figure out which one would make me most happy and which one I would be best at.
What qualities do you think someone has that makes them right for medicine, law, or business?</p>
<p>Pre-med: you can do any major, but you need to take the pre-med course work, get a very high GPA, do pre-med extracurriculars, take the MCAT, and apply to medical school.</p>
<p>Pre-law: you can do any major with any course work, but you need to get a very high GPA, take the LSAT, and apply to law schools.</p>
<p>Pre-business: you can do any major with any course work which ideally helps you get a good job which will give you good work experience which MBA programs prefer to see from applicants. If you are looking at MFE programs instead of MBA programs, choose plenty of math, statistics, economics/finance, and computer science course work.</p>
<p>If you are not able to get a 3.6+ GPA in chemistry, biology, physics, and math, and overall, you may want to shelve the pre-med idea, as admission to medical school is extremely unlikely with lower GPAs. Note that lawyer job and career prospects tend to be very dependent on the prestige of the law school, so if your GPA is not high enough to get into a top 14 law school, consider very carefully whether it makes sense to go to law school.</p>
<p>Even if you are able to get a 3.7 gpa, you still need a back up plan if you decide on pre-med. EVERYONE is now applying to med school since physicians are pretty much the only jobs left that are somewhat recession and offshore resistant and that offer a high salary. A 30 or 32 MCAT is just average these days. Make sure you beef up your computer, math, and business/economics skills while in school just in case you need to fall back onto something if you don’t get into med school or decide not to go.</p>