Undergrad major

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Hi,

My son is a current junior who is interested in doing a undergrad major that would cover most of the pre med requirements. We are in Texas and looking for instate Public colleges. As of now, we are debating between 3 options:

  1. Biology / Chem major at UT Austin
  2. Biomedical science at Texas A&M
  3. Honors Biomed program at UofH

I prefer the first one since it is UT! My son prefers the second one since he feels Biomedical science would be geared more towards med field (as far as we researched UT Austin doesn’t have this in undergrad). We both like the third option, but have heard that it is very hard to get admitted into, and also even more harder to maintain a good gpa since it is Honors (looks like there is no regular one here). Any suggestions please? Also any better options? TIA

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You should look at Texas Tech too; there’s a med school there. I don’t know about UofH but UT is extremely difficult to get into, unless you are top 7% of your class.