Premed vs. Prelaw vs. Prebusiness

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<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>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I think you should try mapping out what position you would pursue.</p>

<p>For example, if you were to go into the medical field, would you like to be a surgeon or pediatrician etc…</p>

<p>If you were involved in law, would you work at a small claims office or for the government etc…</p>

<p>If you pursue bussiness, would you like to work at a giant corporation or own your own bussiness?</p>

<p>I think by figuring out what interests you most in each career, you may realize which area you sway towards. I really hope this helps you!</p>

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<p>Even if you are into medicine, I wouldn’t do chemistry unless you REALLY love chemistry. Grad schools want to see well-roundedness. An English major with all the premed requirements… A music major who is also a math whiz. You want to engage both sides of your brain.</p>

<p>In business, quant skills are essential. But so are communication skills. You can’t overly neglect either. I can only imagine the same is true for medicine. Schools could fill up entire rosters of math/science geniuses, but they won’t have a lick of bedside manner. </p>

<p>Law, you don’t need quant so that’s different, but that’s also a terrible hiring market. You have to love law a lot and have no questions about being a lawyer. I was planning on going to law school just because I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Glad I took the time off to figure life out.</p>

<p>So essentially, if I could start over as a freshman, I’d find out a social sicence major that I loved and then couple it with a Math or comp-sci major. If you’re interested in medicine, find out something else that really interests you and make sure you fulfill all the premed requirements. Colleges have been pumping out number crunchers who can’t talk about literature, politics, art or anything else to save their lives. The market is changing to hire people who can do both.</p>