I had a question about Psychology. If I choose it as my major for undergrad is it considered a Pre-Med major? And if so does that make it harder to get in with (since I know there are usually a limited number of spots for majors in the medical field)?
Also would that be a BA or BS
There is no such thing as a pre-med major. Pre-medicine is simply a sequence of courses that are prerequisites for most medical schools and help you prepare for the MCAT. You can be pre-med with any major, from biology to psychology to physics to art history to philosophy.
Psychology is typically not an impacted major at colleges that admit by major (which most colleges don’t do). But you’d have to look at each individual university to which you’re applying to see if psychology is impacted and thus if you’d be competing to get into the major and not just the university.
A psychology degree can be either a BA or a BS. Across schools, it makes no real difference - some colleges grant a BA and others grant a BS for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with the classes. Some universities offer both a BA and a BS in psychology. In those cases, typically the BS will require more science classes (i.e. biology, chemistry, math, maybe physics), whereas the BA typically has fewer requirements and more flexibility for double majoring or minoring. You’d have to compare the programs at each school, though, and generally schools that have both will explain the difference on the psych department website.
Wow. Thank you so much! That was very informational.