<p>I am a Junior in college right now and I've been thinking about it a lot recently. I've heard med schools don't require any particular major, so what is a good major?</p>
<p>I don’t think your major matters as long as you have taken the pre-med requirements, have a strong GPA, and do well on the MCAT. I have a nephew who double majored in history & philosophy a few years ago in college. He also did his pre-med pre-reqs. He took a year off after college and worked as an EMT of some kind, then applied to med school. He is now a doctor.</p>
<p>Wow, I failed, sorry I meant junior in high school.</p>
<p>I have heard that one way to go about it is to do those required classes but then major in something easy so that way you can have a really high GPA when you apply for med school. I’ve heard taking easy classes and getting high grades is better than taking hard classes and getting average grades. Is this correct?</p>
<p>A high GPA is important, but I think they do look specifically at your grades in the pre-med classes as well. So "C"s in Organic Chem are still going to hurt you if that is where you end up… and you need strong enough classes and professors in the subjects on the MCAT that you will do well on the test. Many students do pick an slightly easier COLLEGE (not necessarily classes at the college) than they could gain admissions to in order to improve their odds of a good GPA.</p>
<p>I think the better way to phrase it is</p>
<p>“Many students do pick a slightly easier college than they could gain admissions to in order to ostensibly improve their odds of a good GPA since pre-meds are generally all above average students and usually the difference between the elite schools and less elite schools is the bottom of the class, not the top, so scoring at the top of the class in a curved course might be just as difficult.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, high GPA in easy classes is probably better than average GPA in hard classes but 1. the MCAT is standardized and 2. usually as long as you get an interview your GPA no longer matters much and whom do you think sounds smarter/is more interesting to talk to, the guy who took joke classes or the one who took difficult ones?</p>
<p>As long as you take pre-med requisites you should be able to major in pretty much anything. I’m hoping to major in anthropology before I go to medical school. The way I’ve been looking at it- you will get all the math and science you need in the prerequisites and in med school. So why not study something different and interesting while you have the chance?</p>
<p>Major in something you’re interested in. You may get better grades that way anyway.</p>