<p>Thank you for all your replies! Wow, you all have very interesting cases!</p>
<p>So, in theory it IS possible - in the U.S. at least - to major in a humanistic/social science subject and then proceed towards a natural science related career.</p>
<p>sybbie, did you have to do any test to be admitted to the Master in Educational Psychology course? What other Masters could you have chosen?</p>
<p>I didn't even know that premed courses existed...</p>
<p>jbusc, obviously, he's also an interesting case... but not all are geniuses unluckily. What I fear in doing the "great change" is actually whether I will be able to adapt to totally new basics. It is a quite common notion that scientific laws take longer time to be "automatized" in our memory than... "market laws". Maybe that's also why many [natural] scientists are more flexible in working in finance, banking, politics and such stuff, than business people manage to become high researchers or rocket scientists (apart from the founder of M-theory, obviously).
Or maybe we're just too influenced by these stereotypes that nobody dares such a change?</p>
<p>Bigredmed, did you consider medical school before or after deciding to major in Sociology?
Your post obviously surprises me; do you know - more or less - what kind of motivations and musings your med school friends followed before deciding to become doctors?
Maybe there's a similarity between my and their thought processes, and I'm curious about them. :)</p>
<p>One thing my conscience speaks against doing this kind of switch is the job/career market. It may be realistic for an undergraduate in Geology (natural science) with a Master in International Affairs or Business Administration (social science) to get a good placement in business/international industry; since he has a good scientific background, and more applied mathematical and reasoning skills.
But will the same apply the other way round?
Will hospitals care about how specialized a doctor is in politics and economics? Will the NASA enroll an engineer with good business and diplomacy skills to become an astronaut?</p>
<p>Thanks again :)</p>