Biochemistry/Pre-Med/Business??

futuresuccess23 · 04-01-2007, 12:28 PM

Is there a biochemistry major at princeton? How easy is it to be Pre-med? Where can I find the percentage of graduates who attend med school and which ones? Where do business majors usually go to work after graduation? What is the average salary for these people?

Any answers to these questions will help me a lot!

Cibbir H. · 04-01-2007, 02:20 PM

Pre-med is fairly easy; I believe there is actually a special track you can go on, but any science related major like Molecular Biology, Chemistry, or Ecology & Evolutionary Biology is great.

If you are great at math and love a challenge, Princeton's new and fabulous integrated science program is a definite must to check out (should be somewhere on the website.)

I know that in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department, roughly 1/3 of the 60 graduates every year goes to med/vet school. (Again, it's on the department website.)

If you want go into business and like engineering, be an ORFE (Operations Research/Financial Engineering.) A lot of those people get jobs at Goldman Sachs or other Wall Street firms.

The average salary for that sort of thing is in the low six-figures (base pay, doesn't include bonus which is usually again as much if not several times more.) But I would shy away from trying to go for the big bucks early, and do what interests you. By no means does getting any major at Princeton, even English or Religion, limit you to getting a good high paying job afterwards.

ec1234 · 04-01-2007, 03:56 PM

There is no biochemistry major, however all science departments accept upper level classes from the other departments as departmentals, so in essence by taking lots of biology and chemistry classes, and maybe working in a biochem lab, you could create your own major. Your degree would say either chemistry or molecular biology, though.

You can search for stats on the HPA (health professions advising) website. If you search the princeton site for HPA you will find a list of average GPAs and MCAT scores for princeton admits to various med schools over the last few years.

There is no business major at princeton