What should I major in?

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Lets be honest, if you get trying to get med school, your fallback plan is not going to be engineering. Most likely it will be Research. If you were shooting for Med school, chances are you pictured your self saving lives and doing biology when you were little, not building interstates and bridges. Your safety career most likely wasnt engineering.</p>

<p>So if you dont get into med school, you are stuck going to grad school for your Ph.D and academic research. Most researchers are NOT American post-docs. Take a stroll around any top 20 University research labs. The majority of researchers are immigrants from Russia, Japan, Taiwan, China, and India. This suggests that Research is very unappealing to smart American Ph.D’s from top schools.</p>

<p>Lets be honest, if you dont get into med school with a biology degree, you are sincerely screwed.

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<p>[The</a> Real Science Gap | Miller-McCune Online](<a href=“miller-mccune.com”>miller-mccune.com)</p>

<p>This is an interesting article about a career in science.</p>

<p>I don’t think a Phd is the best alternative if you get a bio degree and don’t make it to med school. I would first look into other health professions like PA, nursing, pharmacy, etc. Then if that doesn’t work out then go into business and get an MBA. You don’t want to spend 7 years getting that PhD only to be stuck in endless post-docs until you are like 40 praying for an opportunity for tenure position. </p>

<p>Even tho a bio degree is useless it is still better than many other liberal art majors. A bio degree can qualify for a majority of jobs the LA majors have but it is not the same the other way around. LA majors can’t apply for research labs, forensic, and science-oriented types jobs.</p>