Biology Major

International95
Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:41:23 +0000

Clarity took a hard hit, then, didn’t it? “Oh no I just disagreed with ‘vast’ not the whole sentiment”. Ambiguity always favors the other party: one of the rules of competitive debate. Although I am not here to argue about semantics, the 50 job possibilities on that website surely seem ‘vast’ to me, as do other possibilities.

‘all you rely on are generalities and stereotypes.’ I started with a stereotype, yes, but definitely moved into something more substantial. This is hardly anyone’s definition of ‘all’. So good job stereotyping someone who stereotyped. At least I was aware of it.

I tend to group economics/business administration/commerce under the same banner of ‘finance/accounting’, and same for offshoots like ‘engineering/medical technologist’ under engineering. I mean, if we start going by that logic, we could look at every profession like dental hygienist assistant or whatever and say but this one!

How will OP possibly expect to get into med school without a high GPA? While I am going to dismiss the lack of sensitivity to issues of gender here (nice job assuming OP is a ‘he’-- I surely hope you noted elsewhere that OP suggested to be of this gender), I must say that someone who cannot do well enough as a biology major is unlikely to make into or be a good student in med school, unless some sort of magic comes into being. In addition, this person is looking into schools like Cornell and JHU, not a random school X with vocational major Y. Switching majors to something more directly employable, that possibly may not be OP’s strength, in a far competitive environment, is probably going to detrimental to OP’s GPA.

Well, the question is more that should we tell people majoring in English or whatever to change majors as well because certainly the market is saturated for them too? Being resourceful after graduating is something everyone needs to be able to do. OP just needs to realize that a biology major leads to more than just research assistantships and PhDs.