<p>I know this should be in a medical school topic but I figured there is more posts here and I have asked many teachers this question-- yet no one has answered my question..</p>
<p>I know medical schools tell you that they dont care which major you choose BUT which major will help you get a better score on the mcats.. </p>
<p>Science was never a favorite of mine, though I know it is very important to have good science grades for medical school, I won't let that stop me from going..</p>
<p>Major in whatever subject you like best. Seriously. Your overall GPA will be much better if you're taking classes you enjoy. And if you're happy with your major, you're more likely to do well in your science classes (and thus do better on the tests). </p>
<p>Don't major in science if it's not something you're passionate about.</p>
<p>The MCAT is not very in depth, and technically, because of the way it's structured they literally give you all of the information you need within each passage to answer all the questions (with the exception of physics formulas and a the discrete, stand-alone, questions). Certainly you have to understand, what's going on, but bringing in outside knowledge is a dangerous thing on the MCAT. I frequently had to say that to my chem and bio majors when I taught MCAT prep for Kaplan.</p>
<p>why is it a dangerous thing? I used to believe that maybe if I majored in bio or chem I would do extremely well on the Mcats since the majority of the test is science information.. So your saying it definately will not effect my score if I choose a different major?</p>
<p>English majors have the highest MCAT scores on average.</p>
<p>You can major in whatever you want; just make sure you take science courses that you need for the MCAT.</p>
<p>The MCAT (no s - you definitely do not want to take this test more than once - sorry it's just a pet peeve of mine) is not a test of science information. It's a test of critical thinking. While having an understanding (no regurgitation) of science is important, a complete and thorough understanding of a broad topic like chemistry is not necessary - only certain parts.</p>
<p>It's dangerous to be a bio major because it will cause you to get wrong answers on the exam. Like in most subjects, classes expand and go more in depth into the how and why something happens. If your taking the MCAT, and come to a question where you know a lot about the subject matter, you begin to see those shades of gray, start thinking "well, if I think about the question like this, the answer would be A, but if I think about it like that, the answer is definitely 100% D".
It'd be like if you had to answer the question "how many players are fielded in an inning for a baseball team?" If you don't know much about baseball, but know that there are 9 positions, you'd say 9 which would be the correct answer. But what if you start thinking about the designated hitter, or then start thinking about how there are usually 5 pitchers in the starting rotation, along with relief pitchers and a closer. You might start wondering if we're talking about the National League or the American League and so on which would lead you to the wrong answer. Obviously this is an extremely simplified version but it represents a problem.</p>
<p>While you don't need to major in science to go to med school, I have to question why you want to go to med school if you dislike science. In medical school, you will be taking multiple science courses at the same time.</p>
<p>W&M has one of the highest med school acceptance rates and most of are advised to take either Biology or chem as a major.</p>
<p>I never said I disliked science, I just said that it wasn't a favorite of mine, and thank you Bigredmed for clearing all of that up, I really do appreciate it!!</p>