I have seriously been considering two different careers/college majors:medicine and business/fashion.Growing up I was not pressured to become a doctor but growing up I remember seeing almost every single family talk about their jobs.A career in medicine just seems natural to me.I love learning about anatomy,I am currently taking it in school but I don’t know if I would be able to handle the extreme studying of medical school.I know that it can’t be impossible because 10/11 people in my family are physicians but I still feel like I could not do it.Another passion of mine is fashion.I love fashion and clothes but I would never want to go to FIT or FIDM for it because I feel like it wouldn’t be enough of an education.I don’t really like designing,I prefer sewing and fashion merchandising doesn’t really seem like a stable career, I wouldn’t feel like I was applying myself enough.I think my parents would be supportive of a career in fashion if I double majored in business or something.The problem I am having is choosing colleges to tour.I am only a junior but am starting to research schools.If I was going to be pre-med I would want to go to a small liberal arts college but with business and fashion I would want to go to a big school in the city like BU or Northeastern.What are some schools that would suit my broad range of interests?Any opinions are welcome about my college majors!
What about colleges that have good science programs and premed support (basic premed core classes will be good at any college in the top 125) AND that has a club for sewing and fashion design?
Such a college I can think of is Marist.
Dickinson has a great management program that involves study abroad and abroad internship junior year and has great facilities/support for science students.
FIT is a serious school. See http://www.fitnyc.edu/
How are math and science classes?
@4kidsdad I know it is such an amazing school for fashion!But I feel like my parents want a traditional education for me.
I am really good at math and am good at science,I love chemistry but am not a fan of biology.
You need great grades in biology in order to be admitted into medical schools.
I didn’t enjoy biology but I did get an A in it.
I agree that Marist has an excellent combination of all of your interests, except that it isn’t located in a city.
Also there are also many excellent career options if you like the health field but don’t want the grind/time commitment of med school – such as PT, PA, OT etc.
Although Marist has the advantage of being about 1h30 to NYC by commuter train, so if someone wanted to spend the weekend in the city, it’d be perfect. As for day-to-day, the Marist campus is very nice, and if you need a bit of variety you can head to Vassar. 
http://www2.kent.edu/catalog/2015/CA/UG/FM
Fashion Merchandising
Marist is so awesome,thanks for the suggestion!I will hopefully get to tour it soon.I will have my car at college,if it is allowed so I don’t mind if it is that far away from the city as long as it is not in the middle of nowhere,like as long as it is within 5 minutes of a grocery store or CVS I would be fine.
A problem I have is I don’t know if I truly want to be a doctor or if psychologically something is going on where I convince myself I want to be one.That sounds so weird but I promise I am not crazy haha.I guess it has just been the only career in my family and was just the thing to do.So I have no idea if I truly like it or am forcing myself to.Let me know if you have ever experienced this please!:)Doing research has been making me think a lot more deeply about what I want to do in the future and I am so lost.
University of Minnesota has strong science and business majors as well as fashion design, with options to double major or have minors. It is also located in Twin Cities, a major metro area of around three million people, but on a large traditional campus with lots of green space. Here is a link to their College of Design and a link to all of their majors and minors:
http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/programs.html
When you apply there, you apply to a specific college for admission, so you would want to choose which one to focus on initially. It can affect scholarships as well, as there are general scholarships and college-specific scholarships (they stack scholarships). You can tell how in demand you will be (and therefore likely to get the scholarships you need) by comparing your stats with those of admitted freshmen for each college:
I don’t think majoring in fashion merchandising would be realistic for me but I could not be a business major.I am taking economics currently and am really starting to hate it.It is really stressfull and I barely understand it even though I have been staying after with my teacher.I still think about being a doctor at times but then feel discouraged when I compare myself to other people who want to be doctors.There are some people who got 100s on the AP Bio final last year while I can barely handle physics.So know I guess I am thinking about colleges that have a lot of majors to choose from but are not that big probably like 10,000 people maximum.Any suggestions?
What state do you live in? What’s your parents’ budget?
Other possibilities beside Marist would include SUNY Geneseo, College of Charleston, UDayton, UScranton, Fordham, Dickinson, Muhlenberg, Chapman, Elon, American, TCNJ, UTampa.
On the reachy side: Vanderbilt, Brandeis, Brown, Emory, Tufts, Case Western.
I don’t think this is a decision you have to make right now. There are lots of schools with good business programs where you can also take the pre-reqs for medical school. As you probably know, pre-med isn’t a major: It’s just a series of classes you need to take to be eligible for admission to med school and to prep (partially) for the MCAT. So go ahead and take classes business or fashion merchandizing or whatever appeals to you. Take the pre-med pre-req classes too. You don’t have to declare a major for two years and a lot can change between now and then. You may discover that you love business and don’t want to give it up. Or that a career in medicine is what you want, but from the business or policy side rather than the care delivery side. In other words, give yourself the gift of being uncertain and taking the time to figure stuff out. That’s what college is for.
I live in Rhode Island.I haven’t really considered the University of Rhode Island because it is extremely non selective and every single person from my school gets in.Plus Rhode Island is really small so even though it is only 53% in state that is still a huge amount of people just from RI.But one advantage would be I could get a ton of great shadowing opportunities if I was pre-med but the campus is way out in the boonies.Living in Rhode Island driving more than 15 minutes to get somewhere seems long and I don’t think I would like being there and plus the parking situation is really horrible.
My parents don’t have a budget for me.I understand that if I plan on going to go graduate school than the undergrad school should be as inexpensive as possible but it is important to me to go to a school that will make me happy.It would be awesome if I loved a school where I get a scholarship but it isn’t my main priority.My parents are fully able to pay for any college that I get into.
I honestly wish I had a passion.I do not have any hobbies or talents but I seriously wish I did.If i loved baking I would totally go to the CIA or RISD if i I loved art.Ugh it is so frustrating because I feel like I am so indecisive.
Any suggestions for how to find colleges if I am undecided on my major?Should I stay away from small liberal arts colleges?
You’ll have to get used to the idea that a 1H30 drive is “short” and “normal” for most people in the US.
URI/Honors is one of your safeties. You apply because it’s your state’s flagship and you need a university in case everything goes wrong. Then you need to find better safeties.
What do you mean “my parents don’t have a budget for me”? There’s ALWAYS a budget. Even if parents have money, they may not be able or willing to invest into your education as much as you think they can. Ask them for a number based on your college fund + what they can pay “out of pocket” (from their income). Better yet: run the Net Price Calculator on your 3 top schools and show them the results; they may well fall off their chairs. When they were going to college, crazy-high private universities (we’re talking Harvard) had a cost of attendance around 15K. They may have NO IDEA that colleges don’t cost, say, 20-25K.
Graduate school: if you go for a PHD, you’ll be funded (meaning, no tuition + you get a stipend). If you mean Med School, then yes it’ll cost a lot. Law School isn’t worth it if you can’t get into a top 14/top20.
What are your stats - GPA, test scores? What’s the highest level of math and foreign language you’ll have achieved when you graduate?
Have you visited some colleges nearby?
Try to visit Marist, of course, and while there add Vassar, then visit URI, Brown, Wellesley, Babson, Wheaton, Clark, Boston College, then UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Amherst, and Hampshire. As a junior, you should be able to plan this fairly easily throughout the year. That should give you a pretty good idea of the type of “vibe” you’re looking for.
My parents are well aware of the cost of college and are totally able to pay for it fully without having to take out loans.
I have not taken the SAT yet because I am a only a junior but last year on the PSAT I got a 1780 but I think I did better on the PSAT this year.I definitely plan on taking SAT classes so my score should hopefully improve.My GPA is currently a 3.84 and I do think it will increase this year.By the time I graduate next year I will have taken up to Calculus and maybe Statistics.I will have finished Spanish 4 by the time I graduate.I haven’t toured any colleges except for a large state school in the western part of the country(I don’t want to say specifically for privacy reasons because my older brother goes there).I didn’t really mind the big campus but I don’t know if that is just because I haven’t toured smaller colleges.I actually really liked that college and it was nice how it was in the city,liking a big college was a pleasant surprise.
being a doctor is a noble position in life . being able to go to and graduate medical school can be done. (but it is not an easy or short task as you know)