<p>I am an incoming freshman, and was looking into the Neuroscience major. It looks like a great major, but my concern is that does it look to narrow. What if later on i decide not to do anything related to neuroscience. Would majoring in Molecular Biology be better? would it be a broader area of study? If anything i could take a few Neuroscience courses that would count as some of my five advanced electives right? Does it even really matter which one i chose, would Medical schools give any preference to either.</p>
<p>It’s really up to you; just because you are majoring in Neuroscience doesn’t mean that you have to go into that field of study after you graduate. You essentially are taking the same fundamental courses, except additional neurosci classes for the Neuroscience major. If you planned on taking neuroscience classes as your electives for the MCB major, then it seems like you should just major in neuroscience. It would also be fairly easy to double major - depending on what AP credits you are going in with. Medical schools won’t really care, though a Neuroscience degree is probably less common than MCB.</p>
<p>I was thinking about double majoring in Neuroscience and Molecular Bio since they are so similar but i was looking on the JHU website and it says you cant double major in two natural sciences.</p>
<p>You can major in two natural sciences… I know lots of people who did math and physics or BME and chemistry or something similar.</p>
<p>It’s says here under double major restrictions that I can’t.
[Majors</a> and Minors](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/majors.html#restrictions]Majors”>http://www.jhu.edu/design/oliver/academic_manual/majors.html#restrictions)</p>
<p>I don’t know the details of what’s classified as a natural science but I’m very skeptical.</p>
<p>That restriction is for the “Natural Science Area” major which is kinda of a do-it-yourself natural science major. The basically don’t want you to design a major that’s mostly biology courses and then try to ‘double major’ in MCB.</p>
<p>As to the OP’s original question: it won’t make a difference for medical school at all. I believe that the first year courses for Neuroscience and Biology will be very similar, so it would be very easy to go in, take a few classes, and figure out what you really want to do.</p>
<p>What do you mean design your own major? That’s possible?</p>