Courses and Major for Med School

It really depends. How many AP credits do you have and when do you wanna transfer? I didn’t have any AP credits myself, and I picked bio originally. I realized that with my job it was gonna take me way too long to transfer, so I changed to psychology a few semesters into it. I was very reluctant to in the beginning b/c I heard so many bad things about the major, and I really loved biology. But I realized that your major doesn’t matter in the admissions process for medical school. And now that I’m transferring to UCLA I couldn’t be more happy with my decision to change my major. I picked something I’ve found a deeper interest for, and I can still take all the pre-med prereqs and be a strong candidate for med school. Also, I don’t have to take a lot of the challenging upper divs that bio/science major students are required to take, classes that have like a <50% average at UCLA. This can be up for debate, but apparently adcoms don’t cut science majors any slack for lower GPAs in the admissions process. Honestly, when I’ve talked about major selection to numerous doctors and medical school students, and looked into it online, everyone says to just pick a major you’re interested in and to avoid picking a major solely to impress adcoms. The benefit to picking a life science major is that you most likely won’t have to take any extra classes, since essentially all the med school prereqs will be part of your curriculum anyways. I would say start your first semester at CC taking classes that are part of the IGETC, and get a jist for what you like, then pick your major.