<p>I am completed dedicated to a future in medicine, i want to be a surgeon. But i am completely undecided as to what specific major I want to study. When i pull down the dropbox for intended major and see 30 different science majors, it overwhelms me. My top three are centered around biology, neuroscience, but I also love calculus and want to maybe minor in mathematics?? I have no idea what to do, i've spent so much time worrying about getting into college I need to prepare what to do in college after I get in... any ideas??</p>
<p>Put undeclared/ undecided for your major. </p>
<p>@nehc97 have you looked at schools that have specialties or joint-degree programs that encompass a variety of your interests. That is what helped me decide where I wanted to go.</p>
<p>Work out the requirements for each of the possible majors, then see what overlaps there are. In your first year look at taking courses you’ll need to take for more than one possible route; that will keep your options open. Once you’ve taken intro college courses you may find your interests and aptitude lead you in one direction.</p>
<p>Depending on your school, being undeclared might be a bad decision. Transferring from undeclared to a major at some schools is a lot harder than others. For someone at my university that wants to transfer into biomedical engineering, for example, needs around a 3.7 gpa. Someone who wants to transfer into biology just needs a 2.5. It may help to be aware of this when applying. </p>
<p>I’m not entirely understanding the title of your topic “triply major” given that you suggested two different majors and a minor. I cannot speak specifically on Biology or Neuroscience since I’m a math major but I can suggest the following:</p>
<p>1) Take a look at the degree plans for both the Biology and Neuroscience programs at the school(s) you are applying to. You can find this information on the internet. </p>
<p>2) Make note of how much overlap there are of each degree plan and look at how much room there is on your degree plan for electives that you may want to take for math classes. Look up a policy on minors. My school’s College of Natural Sciences (includes biology) doesn’t allow minors.</p>
<p>3) See if you can find information on how hard it is for a student already at the university to transfer into either of those programs. For my school it is called an “internal transfer” but I don’t know what other schools call it. This will be harder to find so you may need to email an advisor. If it turns out that you can’t decide between biology and neuroscience, you may want to apply to the one that would be harder to transfer into. I’d really recommending doing the best research you can to figure out between the two which one would suit you better so that you don’t end up picking a major for that reason, though.</p>