75% of biology majors are pre-meds

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<p>According to [this</a> article](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/some-‘pre-meds’-take-road-less-traveled]this”>http://dukechronicle.com/article/some-‘pre-meds’-take-road-less-traveled), “approximately 75 percent of students studying life sciences nationwide plan to go to medical school”.</p>

<p>However, since at least half of pre-meds do not get into any medical school, that leaves a surplus of biology major graduates competing for a small number of jobs at the bachelor’s level, or graduate or other professional school slots as alternatives to medical school.</p>

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<p>Why don’t they just go to Dental, Physical Therapy or some other graduate program instead? They knew they were doing post-grad schooling to begin with.</p>