<p>So I am currently a senior in highschool
and I want to major in Biology, but i dont know which one to chose
there are many different kinds of bio major offered at UCSD
and I know ALL college classes are difficult, but i wanna try to chose the easiest one
any opinions on which bio to take? please no negative comments. thanks! :] </p>
<p>Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Biology, General
Biology, Human
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Physiology and Neuroscience</p>
<p>Um...... yeah sorry but I dunno if you've heard... If you want to go on the Medical Route... it won't ever be easy. Most Bio Majors are the same... Time consuming, and uh HARD. Plus the harder it is, the more it will pay off for getting INTO med school/ DOING well in Med school...</p>
<p>If you're just beginning college and are ALREADY looking for the easiest way out of everything, then I really fear for the next generation of doctors. If you really want to make things go as smoothly as possible, why not resort to cheating? To valuing your grades above everything else in college? To live in the library in lieu of face time with people who will be the greatest friends you'll have your whole life?</p>
<p>Seriously, college is so much more than grades. And life's so much more than med school.</p>
<p>I feel kinda sorry for you bio and chem ppl since you guys have to put up with all of these premeds all of the time. Especially the TA's, like astrina, who have to deal with the premeds in the 6 series before many of them decide its not for them. I'm glad i dont have to deal with that. Physics FTW. Of course now that i said that, when i become a physics TA i'll be assigned to a class in the 1 series (Damn you irony).</p>
<p>What I love are the wannabe doctors who don't have any chem sense and take chem6 series to lower the average. I swear Im gonna end up with 100+% in that class. Its the pre meds that actually know their chem/physics that you have to compete with.</p>
<p>And for Econ, it's the few people who want to pursue a graduate degree in Econ and NOT in business that do well (tooting my own horn). Econ is not a hard subject but the averages are always somehow dragged down to 50% being passing for a lot of the core upper divs--ridiculous!</p>
<p>give the guy a break, he did say "no negative comments please." People post on these forums looking for help and advice, not to be judged. </p>
<p>Edword, although I don't have the answer to which one would be the easiest (don't even think there is an objective answer to that), I do think that you should do some research and pick the Bio Major that interests you the most. The UCSD website has a list of all the lower div and upper div coursework for the different majors, and then there is the catalog for the course descriptions. I decided to choose Molecular Biology based on looking over the different majors and analyzing what set of classes I would like to take the most and what is most suited for what I want to do in the future (genetic engineering). Most of the bio majors (except EBE and Bioinformatics) ARE pretty much the same because they have many courses that overlap. </p>
<p>ps. the search function can come in handy, as there is the possibility that others have ask the same or similar questions before. </p>
<p>I don't know about you but as a pre-med, I strive to learn as much as I can because I want to be the best possible (cross my fingers) doctor that I can be, not a half-ass one. So if it means that in the future, I need to be able to rattle off the intermediates of TCA while examining a patient, then so be it.</p>
<p>I tried very hard in high school and it paid off in college because I have strong fundamentals. I imagine it will be the same when I (cross my fingers) attend medical school.</p>
<p>But that said, pick the bio major that you're most interested in because you will probably strive to learn the most (and get the best grades while you're at it). Are you interested in things at the molecular/biochemical level? Or are you interested in the "big picture" (like organ systems)? Are you interested in the micro-organismal level? Or do you like the big, big picture of life (ecology)?</p>
<p>Or hell, are you interested in epidemiology or public health? Might as well look into that as it is a viable post-bac option for a lot of "pre-meds"</p>
<p>Why doesn't anyone use the search function??</p>
<p>Well, Edword, you answered your own question in your post... They are equally hard. Well, I personally think EBE is the easiest major of the 8 and is the most different from the others (except for bioinformatics). However, I doubt that the EBE classes will look as good to a med school admissions committee as the classes most other applicants will have taken...</p>
<p>But, I always like to say that the easiest major is the one you enjoy the most. =)</p>
<p>And someone mentioned that is sucks TAing for premeds before they realize that they shouldn't be premeds... I beg to differ. The worst is TAing for 3rd and 4th students that are for sure premed. So hard to deal with...</p>
<p>I've done both -- from brand-spanking-new freshmen in chem 4 whining about how "much" work is required to graduating seniors trying to finish up biochem but whining about having to memorize amino acids (!!!) ... no use in arguing, both groups are equally annoying.</p>
<p>The best advice I recieved from a friend of mine that graduated from UCSD medical school with a M.D./PHD. was to major in something that I was interested in. If you like the classes you are taking you will probably do better, and that will help you get better grades. Which will help you get into graduate school. Besides there are no easy biology majors, they are all hard. I chose Human Biology because it gives me a lot of flexibility when selecting my classes. I have more control over which classes I take and I can take more that are interesting to me.</p>