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JHS · 07-02-2009, 10:13 AM

I don't really know. Among my kids' cohort, they knew five really strong math students. Four went to Harvard, one went to Yale, only two of them applied to Princeton. My science-oriented roommates at Yale currently (or recently) hold the following jobs: Chair of Oncology at one of the country's top teaching hospitals, Chief Quality Officer at one of the hospitals that can legitimately claim to be THE top teaching hospital (and frequent author of outcome-research papers), and sailing around the world with his family after 12 years as Director of Oceans at the country's leading science-oriented environmental group. The first two got BS/MSs in Molecular Biology and then MD/PhDs; the last has a BA in geology and a law degree. They have all had pretty cool careers, in my opinion. But they weren't chemistry or physics majors.

07-02-2009, 10:13 AM	#3
JHS Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 5,452	I don't really know. Among my kids' cohort, they knew five really strong math students. Four went to Harvard, one went to Yale, only two of them applied to Princeton. My science-oriented roommates at Yale currently (or recently) hold the following jobs: Chair of Oncology at one of the country's top teaching hospitals, Chief Quality Officer at one of the hospitals that can legitimately claim to be THE top teaching hospital (and frequent author of outcome-research papers), and sailing around the world with his family after 12 years as Director of Oceans at the country's leading science-oriented environmental group. The first two got BS/MSs in Molecular Biology and then MD/PhDs; the last has a BA in geology and a law degree. They have all had pretty cool careers, in my opinion. But they weren't chemistry or physics majors.
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