So I’m a Statistics major at Virginia Tech. I’m a sophomore in terms of credits, but I still consider myself a freshman. But anyways, I’m interested in going into the Biostatistics field. I’m taking my first biology classes next semester and usually you add the lab along with it. However, stats majors here are not required to take the lab for their degree, so should I bother taking the lab along with the class or not? Just wondering how beneficial you guys think it would be, and if not taking it would hurt my chances of getting into one of my top Grad programs (University of Washington, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, VCU).
Thanks!
I would highly recommend taking biology lab if you are interested in biostatistics. It’s great to know the processes that went into generating the data that you will be analyzing. Sign up for it, try it, and if you don’t like it drop it before the drop deadline. (Typically the first week or two of the semester.)