<p>Does admission to a graduate school depends lot on the undergraduate major?</p>
<p>So let's say I major in... let's say Biology. But for graduate school, let's say I decide to apply for a totally different school... say a Business School for whatever reason.</p>
<p>Does someone who majored in Business as undergrad. have certain advantage in being admitted to the business school over someone who majored in totally different major such as biology?</p>
<p>so for UC Berkeley, it's known for an excellent undergraduate business program. For biology... it's ok, but not as famous.
If a business major student and biology major student, both from UCB, apply to Wharton School of Business of UPenn, will both students be given equal chance of admission (let's disregard experience, activities, GPA and all those other factors)?</p>
<p>In another word, does major have any impact on admission to a graduate school?</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry, couldn't decide which forum to post this thread under. :(</p>
<p>Experience is what matters most at the MBA and JD-giving schools; choice of major is less important than how well you did in it and what you did with it outside. In particular the business schools want people who have had work experience to supplement the college major, because an MBA makes little sense unless one has had to be an underling in the first place. Medical schools don't care as long as you have taken the basic requirements and the MCAT.</p>
<p>This holds true for professional schools. But for the typical graduate programs in the arts and sciences and engineering, your major matters a lot more. It would be very hard to get into engineering grad school with a undergraduate major in political science.</p>
<p>Law schools search for quantitative, reasoning and writing skills which are typically demonstrated by strong undergraduate grades. And I believe that the majority of One L students still come straight from college with no break in between.</p>
<p>For professional schools (law, business, medicine, etc.), your major does not matter much. Sometimes this is true for grad schools as well. For example, a graduate program in archaeology is likely to admit students from a wide variety of backgrounds because it is not a subject offered to many undergrads. Science grad programs can be quite particular, however, and they often have specific course recommendations/requirements.</p>