<p>I am considering all of these as a major and I was wondering if anyone knew the differences between them, what classes you would take for each of them and which is the hardest to get good grades in.</p>
<p>Biology - easiest to switch to Chemistry/Chemical Engineering which are real careers
Evolutionary Anthropology - fast track to McDonalds
Neuroscience - see above.</p>
<p>well i’m hoping to get into med school so which would help me get the highest gpa</p>
<p>None, go with marketing or communications.</p>
<p>honestly though, I’m not going to be a sell out and do something I hate or that sounds stupid and ridiculous for 4 years of my life and pay tons of money to do it. I have already made up my mind that I would like to do one of those but I just want advice on which I should do and why?</p>
<p>was serious: if you want to go to medical school, nothing matters except MCAT, GPA, and extracurriculars.</p>
<p>marketing/communications have the lowest credit requirements to graduate.</p>
<p>you can take premed classes, then use the rest of your classes to boost your GPA, spend the extra time reviewing for MCAT, and then going to hospitals to take up sp- volunteer.</p>
<p>Biology and neuroscience usually would require the typical premed requirements (i.e., gen & org chem, calc, gen physics, gen bio); evolutionary anthropology would not necessarily require these courses, though you’d obviously complete them anyway if you have your sights set on med school.</p>
<p>All of these majors could be appropriate as preparation for med school, depending on your interests. </p>
<p>As long as you have the usual premed requirements, you can probably enter any number of related fields for graduate study should you change your mind about med school or not get admitted to med school. All of these majors are liberal arts majors so if you don’t go to med school or grad school, you’ll generally have the typical job options available to liberal arts majors. Biology might be the most versatile in regard to grad school options.</p>
<p>The general impression is that neuroscience is harder than biology which is harder than evolutionary anthropology, but it all depends on what courses you take. </p>
<p>If, as you say, you’ve made up your mind to major in one of these fields, then I would assume that you know the differences between them and what courses you would take for each of them. Otherwise, how can you possibly say that you’ve made up your mind about them if you haven’t already checked into those things? I suggest you look at the course requirements for these fields at the schools that interest you so you learn what are the differences and what courses are required.</p>
<p>well, I have looked into them a lot lately, mostly because we have been on break from school for a few days and I have nothing else to do and it’s not that I have my mind set but I would much rather do something related to those just because they sound more interesting to me. I think out of all of them neuroscience sounded the most interesting to me but if it is harder than biology maybe I will just choose biology. Also I thought Neuroscience was just like a mix of Biology and Psychology, so wouldn’t that make it easier than just regular biology.</p>
<p>Neuroscience is good if you eventually want to go into a related area of medicine, e.g., neurology, psychiatry, possibly rehab medicine. However, I think it’s far too early to settle on a possible specialty until you’ve been exposed to them in medical school. Neuroscience is a hot major right now and some premeds choose it because they erroneously think it will set them apart from other med school applicants. If you major in biology, you can still do coursework in neurobiology. While neuroscience does combine aspects of biology and psychology, the fact that it includes a psychology component doesn’t necessarily make it easier. Depending on the subfield, psychology is very much a rigorous experimental science.
Also, neuroscience majors are structured differently depending on the particular school: At some schools, it has its own department; at others, it’s an interdisciplinary major; at still others, it’s a subconcentration either in the psychology dept. or in a biology dept. Evolutionary anthropology (or, biological anthropology or physical anthopology, as it’s probably titled more commonly) is a subfield of anthropology or, sometimes, a joint concentration between anthropology and biology (or zoology). Evolutionary anthropology certainly has some interesting potential applications to medicine, but since it’s relatively new in this regard, you might have to make the tie-ins yourself.
[Evolutionary</a> Biology and Human Disease - Darwinian Medicine Links](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/courses/darmed/links.htm]Evolutionary”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/courses/darmed/links.htm)</p>
<p>Just keep in mind that you don’t need to choose among these majors right away. A big chunk of your first two years will be taken up by the typical premed required courses. These courses will lay the foundation for entering whichever of these majors you eventually choose. You may even choose a different major once you’re exposed to various fields. For now, you can compare the different major requirements at schools that interest you and rough-out what a major might look like; many schools have checklists or tracking sheets online for each major that makes this pretty easy to do.</p>
<p>Hi there,I want to be an anesthesiologist after med school and have chosen nueroscience as a premed.do u think nueroscience is a good choice or should I minor in another science field to help me get into med school.</p>
<p>@premed4,</p>
<p>You should probably hear LastThreeYears out. Majoring in one of those three might:</p>
<p>1) not be necessary,
2) hurt your GPA,
3) not provide much of a back-up plan,
4) all of the above.</p>
<p>A few days ago a frequent poster, UCB, provided a link summarizing the majors, MCAT scores and GPAs of applicants and matriculants to med school. (Look for “Majors for Admission and Pre-med” in this forum.) Look carefully at the numbers, seek out some more information and then ask your advisors and others some serious, tough questions. </p>
<p>I would be very interested to know why the social sciences majors are so successful (according to that link!)</p>
<p>Alright, this is what annoys me about pre-med: it encourages you to play the system to try and take an easy major so you can boost the GPA stat, not to take challenging classes that will be the best preparation for medicine.</p>
<p>I started out as pre-med in neuroscience. I chose neuroscience because I really enjoyed my 2 years of high school psych and I loved science. Once I got to college, I picked up a computer science minor because I discovered I really enjoyed it. I didn’t play specifically to pre-med goals. In part because I think it’s a little naive to be able to say at 17 or 18 that you have your whole life planned out. But I did when I started college. But I’m glad I didn’t plan my college career mainly around pre-med. Because plans change. I’m no longer pre-med. It’s because I couldn’t hack it - I have a 3.97 GPA, a national Goldwater Scholarship, extensive research experience, and I volunteer at a hospital. But I decided I liked research better. And that’s something I couldn’t have predicted when I started.
So here’s what I’m saying: if you like something in those 3 areas, go for it. Don’t be a marketing/communications major, because if something changes for whatever reason (grades, interest), I feel like it would be much better to not be stuck with a major that no longer has anything to do with your goals or interests.</p>