I am in a really tough situation, I don’t know whether to persue a major relating to Finance, Medicine, or Engineering. I seriously can’t make up my mind. There are good sides to all of them. The schools I am looking into mainly are:
University of Michigan
New York University
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Also, some combined degree programs affiliated with UMDNJ.
I want to be either an Investment Banker, Doctor, or Engineer.
I really am just looking for opinions I want to make a pretty good living, but also doing something that I love.
Can people please give me information on which of these career’s YOU think are best?
<p>No one can tell you who you should be, you should go into college and "taste test" classes.</p>
<p>Pick a big school (as you already have) because that way, you will know that they will have all of your interests. Im sure you've heard the "60% of students enter as undecided" lecture so I wont bother, but enter the college of your choice knowing that anything can grab you, have an open mind without bias.</p>
<p>I know that this was not the information that you desired, and you flat out wanted a stranger to tell you what profession is best, but seriously there isnt one (<em>COUGH</em> BUSINESS). :D</p>
<p>I agree it depends on what is right for you. And who says you ahve to do just one If you get a double major you could have more options when you graduate.</p>
<p>yeah...well the screenname was created before my mind aborsed any other possibilities. Also, that I don't want to be a doctor for the respect of it. I wanna be rich, I wanna be powerful, I wanna be me. I just don't know. Also, the Stern school of business seems so great, but I am really split, if I had to say I would narrow it down to Business vs. Medicine.... Engineering really doesn't seem as great for me... But both Bsuiness and Medicine are just so gooood. I really need some serious opinions guys come on. Just personal opinions on which you personally think would be a better career?</p>
<p>" Also, the Stern school of business seems so great, but I am really split"</p>
<p>At Stern you can do both, actually, so long as you are willing to use up your electives on the pre-med requirements, which is simply 8 total classes.</p>
<p>If you're looking to medicine as a way to "get rich", you're probably not a) Going to get into med school or b) Struggle through (because you don't really love it). I'm not saying that everyone going into med school should be completely unconcerned about the money (after all you are spending a total of 8 years in school and then an additional 3-8 years for training), but if that's your only goal, then business would be a better option for you. Also, lately doctors have been making less money than they have in the past, and malpractice insurance rates have been going up. Doctors will make a comfortable living, but they will never be as rich as some business owners/CEOs.</p>
<p>Don't go into medicine for the reasons you stated. It wouldn't be good for you or your patients.</p>
<p>OTOH, it's very possible to do the prereqs for medicine while majoring in something else. In fact, it's not a major in most schools. So your choice is between engineering and business. It sounds like you want to do Business--that's my suggestion.</p>
<p>I'm sure this is going to ruffle some feathers but here goes....</p>
<p>I personally think business majors are jokes. The courses they take are jokes and usually easy (and in my opinion very boring, I don't know why anyone would want to study accounting and analyze all sorts of pointless data), the make up of the students tend to be less intelligent than med/eng, but the major can pay well in the end (but so can med/eng).</p>
<p>You asked for opinions so I gave mine. All three of these subjects are quite different, so like others said i think you need to do some "soul" searching to figure out what you want to do because these majors are very different</p>
<p>" personally think business majors are jokes. The courses they take are jokes and usually easy (and in my opinion very boring, I don't know why anyone would want to study accounting and analyze all sorts of pointless data), the make up of the students tend to be less intelligent than med/eng, but the major can pay well in the end (but so can med/eng)."
The only pre-med class harder than finance/accounting is o-chem.</p>
<p>The pre-med curriculum consists of like 8 introductory courses so I would certainly hope some business course is as difficult as them. Regardless, pre med students tend to major in something like bio/chem or other majors that have much more difficult courses than those presented in the pre-med curriculum</p>
<p>How can you call business a joke when business schools are probably the most cuthroat competitive out of any major. Its not just looking at charts, thats barely anything. You have no idea what your talking about.</p>
<p>"Cross medicine off your list then. There are careers in which you can make far more money and also have power while being yourself.</p>
<p>Doctors main job is helping others, not ruling others, not being themselves. People who are into me, me, me need to consider other fields."</p>
<p>100% correct. There's a lot more ways to earn $$$ than going into a field that demands an extra 6-10 years of schooling and cutting up dead bodies. Just be some mortgage banking goon or investing banking monkey if you want $$$ and to feel like a big boy.</p>
<p>I am not looking at any charts, I am stating my opinion based off personal experience. At many schools prominent in engineering, business is the major people switch to when they fail out of engineering. I don't doubt that business schools are cut-throat but can assure you that med school is worse. Just imagine how much worse it would be if there there were only 130 or so business schools in the US, that is what pre-med majors have to face. My simple premise is that business, as a major, is much easier than med/eng</p>
<p>I have a cousin at Harvard's bus school. Quoting him, "Nearly impossible to get into, harder to fail out of,"</p>
<p>Well I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree here because I too think you are dead wrong. In my opinion there are very few abstract ideas in business that rival those of the pure sciences, making the business world all about common sense and number crunching</p>
<p>I'll let some numbers speak for themselves. The average GPA to get into bus. school is about .2-.4 lower than for med school, and the acceptance rate is to get into business school is much higher (10-40%) than that of med school</p>