I know everything depends on high school GPA and standardized testings…but let’s not talk about them right now.
My first choice of major is pharmaceutical science. I have a great interest in science and have a cousin practicing in the field as well. Under her influence and my interest, I want to study in this field as well.
However, the problem comes that I’m not sure if I should really enter this field ( or can get in or not). I was terribly knocked by my AP biology teachers. In addition, unfortunately, i had an extremely harsh sophomore year when I took the AP biology. Things happened in my family so I barely had time to study. As a result, I failed my sophomore year. All my grades for math and science were below B or below. According to my knowledge, pharmaceutical science requires a large area of study on biology ( and chemistry I know). Should I still go for this major if I failed my AP biology??
Another choice for me is either architecture or interior design. I’m pretty sure I’m ok at math ( I don’t even know how can I earn a B in algebra 2 honors) since I have A in both pre-calc and ap calculus ab. I’m taking AP physics 1 & 2 currently and I don’t feel it’s so bad compare to AP biology. In addition, I think I’m good at art, at least it’s one of my favorite hobby. I’ve been learning art for more than ten years. Although I’ve stopped the lesson for two years, my drawing skill hasn’t gone back too much. Since I like art, should i go for one of these majors??
OR…does anyone have a suggestion for the major i should go for instead? by the way, I’m not sure for my actual gpa (haven’t calculated them yet), but I know I have a GPA of 3.5+ for sure.
While studying in college can be different from studying in high school, I’d say that if you failed AP Biology because you had a hard time grasping the material - and you generally don’t do well in the relevant science classes - then a pharmaceutical sciences major may not be great for you. BUT it sounds like you failed because you had some family issues - so take that into account. Are you generally good at biology, chemistry, and math when you aren’t faced with those issues? Also, most colleges don’t offer a major in pharmaceutical sciences. You could select chemistry (or biochemistry or biology) instead. There are a few universities that offer a major in something like medical laboratory science but the point still stands.
Interior design usually isn’t a major at college. Architecture is not quite the same as art - it uses art for sure, but just because you like drawing doesn’t mean you’ll like architecture.
There’s more than one way to go about selecting a major. Some people do it by thinking about the career they want to enter and picking a major they think is relevant. Another way to do it is to think about the general universe of careers you might want, your more general interests, and start narrowing things down from there. For example, I knew that I loved working with people in some capacity, and I wanted to study how people behaved with one another - so I narrowed down my major choices to the social sciences. For some reason I never really considered economics at the time. I read a little about anthropology and I wasn’t interested. I thought I might want political science and then law school, so I flipped through the course catalog at my college and the political science classes seemed boring. So I had it down to sociology and psychology; I started out at college by taking a class in sociology and then took a psychology class the next semester. I liked psych better, so I picked that.
You can do the same thing. No need to agonize over it, unless you’re considering some specialty majors that are only offered at some universities (and even then, you can often get what you want from a more common major OR you can just pick a place with a wide range of majors). Think about the general area of careers and interests that you have; then start flipping through the course catalogs of your target schools and think about what it might feel like to take those classes. You can always try out 2-3 majors when you get there, too.
thank you very much for solving my issue 