<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm soon to be a high school senior this year, and my plan is to go to a university here in Texas (maybe :/ )and follow the curriculum of pre-med. However, I must choose a major, and I've visited many websites and they always mention a "science one is the best choice" in order to advance easier into med school (though I've also read it depends on the individual ;)). Thus, I was thinking of biology major, but I'm not very fond of it, I will just choose it for it to facilitate my studies while doing my pre-med curriculum.
But I was thinking what happens if I doN'T get in medical school, since the percentage of it it's somewhat high, then I would have to work in something in the biology field, which I dislike. I'm confused, because I'm not talented for any arts or music major, or english major, maybe a math but it'll only make my four year in the college harder with the requisites of pre-med and then mathematics. I mean I really want to choose a good major, I can't just major in anything, mostly since I don't have that much money to spend on whatever is there. The point being I suppose is... does anybody know what is sort of a safe option to study while being in pre-med? Or what happens when you just fail to get into medical school?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance, look forward to a response :)</p>
<p>Well, if by safe option that you are looking for a major that has a lot of job possibilities, you’d be surprised how many research and non-research opportunities are available for bio majors. Biochem and bioengineering have very bright futures outside of medicine as well. Straight up engineering is the same way, but just realize that this is a pretty rough major.</p>
<p>You really should do what you like. Not only because of the possibility you won’t get into medschool but because its a b**** to take upperlevel courses in a area you don’t like. The possibility that you won’t do well and lower your GPA just because you don’t like bio much is quite high. Many med schools these days are actually pushing for humanities majors, if you’re interested in any. Also, premed requisites are not that bad to fufill with another major. Your schedule could look something like this if you like math:</p>
<p>freshman: math (3 credits) biology (3-4 credits) chemistry (3-5 credits) + one “fun” class
sophomore: organic chem (3-5 credits) + math classes for your major and w/e else you want, you could also take physics this year if you think you can handle it
junior: physics (4 credits) + math + w/e and MCAT</p>
<p>freshman year prob seems like the most diff but if you like/are good at math, chem should go well enough. It is doable however</p>
<p>while you’re doing your math major you would still have to do clinical stuff and hospital volunteering to show your interest</p>
<p>and you might one want to spend just a semester, a year, or more likely a summer in a lab to show that you can do research even though its not your passion</p>
<p>wait if you dont like biology then why go to medical school?</p>
<p>and if you fail to get into med school you do a post bcc program or take a year off and apply again, or you could always do your math career (go to grad school for math)</p>
<p>majoring in something you dislike does not sound fun :'(</p>
<p>lol you could call it pre-pre-med.</p>
<p>On a slightly related point (all of this pre- stuff is ridiculous), I don’t understand why more medical schools don’t just take students straight out of high school and teach them biology and chemistry as needed.</p>
<p>It isn’t like you need an entire undergraduate degree to prepare yourself for medical school.</p>
<p>^I suppose they expect some sort of well roundness but I certainly would prefer going straight into medicine, however it might be nice to explore a bit and experience undergrad. After all these could be the last 4 years to try something non-medical. </p>
<p>As for radioteque, in the college i’m going to attend this fall, most pre-meds have almost the same schedule no matter what their majors are. Basically the first year or two consists of general ed courses and the pre-med courses.
This way most students have till the end of their sophomore year to get a feel for what they like and then to declare a major. I’d look into what sort of schedule you will have and how your school assigns those courses by major. It’s very possible you could just do pre-med then find a major that you genuinely like and are good at after a year or two in the college.</p>
<p>Alot of people I have spoken with changed majors and their career goals (or they went in having no idea what they wanted to do), so if you’re unsure now, you might learn more about your interests with time at the college.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses ;). Sorry I wrote this thread so rapidly and I was in a very stressed situation with my parents 
But what I meant was not that I really “dislike” biology, I do like it, but I’m not strongly passionate to it… or not so much so I could work on it the rest of my life (in the case that I don’t get into med school). But I’ll consider the so many options that are there besides bio, or maybe I’ll just go into that 
Either way I’ll put all my effort in college for those four years, and I’m praying I’ll get into medical school :D. Thank you once again to you all.</p>
<p>People who are planning to go to Med. School have various majors with some of them completely unrelated to Med. School or they have related major and minor or couple of them. It really does not matter. You need to complete Med. School reguirements and get high GPA (3.6+ maybe) to get accepted, plus there are other things to make you competitive, like good mcat score, research, volunteering, shadowing doctors…</p>