<p>in there pre-med advising / programs / related things, as I've heard their students have around 90-95% med school acceptance rate, (well i'm not sure about superior, just wanted to catch your attention ;) although i'm sure they're top of the nation anyway)</p>
<p>I am wondering if they allow pre-meds to major in something other than biology / biochemistry / molecular biology?</p>
<p>I sort of want to major in international relations / a political science type branch. Is there a disadvantage to not majoring in a natural / engineering science? Do we really need material outside of pre-med track to do well on MCATs?</p>
<p>I don’t have an official answer, but I do not understand why you just don’t double major in one of the science and one of the other majors you want to do.</p>
<p>You can major in whatever you want and still go to medical school as long as you take (and do reasonably well in) the prerequisite courses for medical school. A classmate of mine was an international studies major and went to Hopkins Med. In fact, since there are a lot more biology majors than international studies majors applying to medical school, you can make the argument that it might even be an advantage.</p>
<p>@zombie double majoring doesn’t seem productive in my case. i feel it would be better to take a decent - not too easy not too hard major so that i have time for research / networking, etc. i do realize, though, that med schools find harder majors like biochemistry more impressive, so that is why i’m concerned. </p>
<p>@bonanza thanks! i did hear somewhere that apparently non-bio majors do better on mcats, though is still very counterintuitive for me. i think i’d find studying for mcats / premed courses easier if i’m majoring in something i like. </p>
<p>@floridadad55, i do realize that hopkins is a goddess in terms of international relations. i just meant to ask whether the premed kids do that, too, because i am looking into med school despite wanting to major in international relations. everyone i know that does premed there is doing molecular bio / bio chem o.o</p>
<p>Definitely go for the major you like and enjoy your time at Hopkins. My only advice would be to stay involved in some sort of medical-type things (whether shadowing, working as an EMT on campus, doing medical research etc) to show med schools that you really understand why you want to take care of patients. Of course, if you’re truly interested in both fields, you won’t have a problem finding activities in both areas that you love! I’m in med school at a top-10 school and while the majority of my classmates were science majors, there are a decent number of humanities/social science majors as well, and once you get to med school, it won’t make a difference what your undergrad major was.</p>
<p>Oh I really should have searched that up. That was really helpful. I think with those conditions - reasonable ones I did not particularly pay attention to before - I’ll be better to seek out a degree in chemistry instead, still a favorite subject.
Thanks @AdmissionsDaniels!</p>
<p>Even if you do decide to pursue a degree in chemistry, keep in mind that you’re going to have to take a bunch of humanties/social science classes anyway as part of your distribution requirements, and you can use those credits to take PoliSci/International Studies/anything you want classes. I was an engineering major and used my distribution requirements for mostly econ and a handful of International Studies classes. The humanties faculty were very accommodating and understanding of the fact that a) I had never really written a college research paper and b) I had things like med school interviews that I had to suddenly disappear for</p>