<p>I'm currently a freshman deciding to choose between Neuroscience, Bioinformatics, and Public Health minors. Which ones are the best based on the difficulty of the content and how interesting the content is? Is it even worth taking any minor?</p>
<p>I read that neuroscience is the most interesting while public health can raise your GPA. Is it fine to go into bioinformatics without any computer science background whatsoever? I'm also considering going into medical school.</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>What’s your major? </p>
<p>For neuroscience at least, you need life science, chem, and physics (which also means you need to finish math first) just to be able to take the m101 series. If you’re looking at premed that’ll take a lot of your requirements out of the way. That’s a lot of work for a minor though, and it’d be easier if your major had some lower division overlap (MIMG, MCDB, biology, biochem, etc). I do know premed English majors and IDS majors though, so it isn’t impossible. I’m currently a second year neuroscience major. </p>
<p>Neuroscience overlaps with psychology and physiology so it has a good mix of a lot of subjects, though I’ve heard that it’s one of the hardest biological sciences offered so probably not the best GPA wise (the lower division classes themselves are considered weeder classes since all premed/bio majors have to take them). Public Health is all upper division classes and competitive to get into, and seems like it would look good for someone applying to med school. I don’t know anything about bioinformatics, sorry!</p>
<p>I’m majoring in MCDB and I don’t think I’ll change my major drastically in the future, as in change to a humanities major. So yeah, I think some pre reqs are taken care of if I decide to minor in those mentioned in the first post.</p>
<p>I’m most interested in neuroscience but then again bioinformatics and public health seem the most helpful for me if I don’t get into medical school. Any other thoughts? Thanks picklesandtwigs.</p>