Before medical school majors

WayOutWestMom
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:28:42 +0000

RE: Plan B. Every pre med needs a Plan B-- the competition to get a med school acceptance is fierce and most freshmen pre-meds won’t make it.

But, in general, you should avoid vocational majors. Vocational majors are majors that prepare you for direct entry into a specific job/career.

For a variety of reasons, students in specialized health science fields (nursing, nutrition/dietetics, athletic training, clinical laboratory science/medical technology, dental hygiene) don’t fare well in medical school admission.
https://www.aamc.org/download/321496/data/factstablea17.pdf

Other vocational majors (engineering, business) have their own issues. For engineers, it’s maintaining a GPA high enough that it doesn’t automatically screen one out of med school admission consideration. For business, there’s the issue of finding space in one’s schedule for the 10 med school pre-req classes, plus the difficulty of cross enrollment between the business college & the liberal arts & sciences college. (Many universities don’t allow it.)

Not saying that any of the above makes those majors a bad choice, but it will make your med school journey more difficult.