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<p>Not sure what you mean. Except for one or two colleges, there’s no such thing as a “pre med major”. </p>
<p>At nearly EVERY college, pre-med students pick a major (bio, chem, English, history, whatever). </p>
<p>In your article, it doesn’t say “pre med major”…it says “traditional pre-med undergraduate majors” (plural). That means that they’re claiming that pre meds who choose traditional majors (bio, microbio), do not do as well on the MCAT.</p>
<p>I think the problem with those stats is that those who choose the traditional bio/microbio tend to be a huge number of students…including many who really aren’t smart enough to be pre-med students…hence their low MCAT scores get averaged into the other scores.</p>
<p>The other majors probably largely include premed students who remain in those majors because they are high achievers and therefore do well on the MCAT.</p>
<p>My own premed son is a Chemical Engineering student. His fellow premeds in his major have all done well on the MCAT…largely because that major heavily weeds kids within the first couple of years. Bio majors probably aren’t heavily weeded.</p>