<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I want to do law or medicine and I want to be prepared to do both and have a major that will allow me to do either one. Obviously, English won't help me to get into med school but it will get me into law. Majors like English are the ones I'm not looking for; I'm looking for ones like psychology that will help me with both. So please suggest some!</p>
<p>As long as you do the pre-med requirements, you can major in anything you are interested. I know plenty of people who went on to Med School after majoring in English, French, or history.</p>
<p>As for law, your major doesn’t matter. You just want good grades. It helps to have some exposure to history and economics and government (maybe philosophy as well). But you don’t need to have a major in any of those fields. Depeneding on certain areas of law you want to pursue (patent law, for example) having a science or engineering background is considered a huge advantage.</p>
<p>So, basically study what interests you. Just make sure you PLAN carefully so that you can put yourself on track to complete the pre-med requirements, the school’s graduation requirements, and you major’s course requirements.</p>
<p>Math is the best way to go. Math will help you prepare for those LSAT’s and med schools love math-oriented students. There is also Cognitive Science with Neuroscience; you get the critical thinking AND the science benefits. If not, any liberal arts major would do, really, although a hard science is preferable.</p>
<p>Engineers can do either. They generally either go into patent law if they choose that route (though they aren’t restricted to that, of course) or do some sort of biomaterials/biomedical engineering as an undergrad if they want to go to med school.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one has mentioned philosophy. philosophy is closest to english(to a certain extent) and is one of the majors who students end up scoring high on the law and medical school entrance exams. </p>
<p>It’s not to easy to assume that people who are more of the liberal arts type/humanities would do well in non liberal arts/humanities type majors ie math or engineering.</p>
<p>I strongly suggest you look into philosophy, or just do english.</p>
<p>The thing with medical school/exam is that there are required classes. you don’t have to be a bio or a science major to get into medical school but you have to have taken certain requirements, kind of like how you do so in high school to get into certain colleges. just do a google search or browse through colleges’ medical schools which state what they expect of med school applicants. generally speaking its like a year of organic chemsitry, a year of biology, a year of physics and calculus(am i missing something?) you can incorporate all those classes within your 4 years of college. You just have to start early. by senior year you could have majored in anything you wanted plus have had the above classes completed.</p>