Business major while pre-med? MBA in the future? Discuss.

silence_kit
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:27:36 +0000

Business, nursing, etc. are all generally seen as vocational majors requiring little academic rigor.



Professional programs aren’t less difficult than non-professional ones–in fact, there is a strong argument for the opposite!

In any case, all this “rigor” stuff is crap. Medical schools don’t care about the difficulty of your major. The only requirements are a few introductory courses. You don’t have to know much to get into med school.

However, it does make sense that medical schools turn their noses up at professional degrees. Med schools will look at your, say, accounting degree, and say “why didn’t he become an accountant?” It shows a lack of commitment (haha paradoxically–an accounting degree is way more work than a biology or psychology degree!). I don’t understand why anyone would do it either. It just doesn’t make sense to go through 4 years of job preparation and then just throw it away.