<p>My daughter’s academic background was somewhat similar. It is a great combination but a double major in itself is not out of the ordinary. The tying together of your D’s academic interests can be meaningful. The med schools that interviewed DD seemed to be most interested in her past research in public health, her belief that her academic interests all had relevancy (even her fluency in French) and how all of it would come into play as she chose her specialty.</p>
<p>"What do you guys think of majoring in engineering for pre-med? I would like to major in mechanical or some other kind of engineering program and do my pre-med courses. However, I don’t want to take on a major that will kill my GPA and not allow me to get into a good medical school. What do you think? "
-It does not have to kill your GPA, but engineering major has much more portential to kill your GPA than any other major as engineering majors are more challenging. You are the only one who can assess your working habits as you will have to work much harder than other pre-meds. In regard to getting into “good medical school”, every Med. School in the USA is “good medical school” and every applicant feels priviliged to get accepted to at least one of them. My comments are based on fact that I used to be in engineering and my D. has applied to Med. Schools last year. Others migh have different opinion based on their personal experience.</p>
<p>^Oh, yes, those models are unbelievable, I have no idea how people find time for them, let alone to be on pre-med track. There are also other majors, like CS - you will spend all your time debugging your programs and most likely you still will not be able to complete without help. I am sure there are other majors. like any art class would be very time consuming. However, music might be OK.</p>
<p>I read this article last year and didn’t know that this thread existed until this morning… found it very interesting! </p>
<p>So do all classics majors gain entry into med schools? I know that its tough to answer this question… but is it safe to say that a good number of them garner that ever elusive med school goldent ticket???</p>
<p>^Only those who have high enough college GPA, MCAT score and resoanable amount of medically related EC’s, not sure how it is different from any other major…</p>
<p>commserver
I think she has a great chance.
It is not “the classics” that schools like although it may help on the MCATS, it is being a person. We accept a much higher percentage of “non-science” majors than “science majors” (althought not numbers of).
I think your daughter sounds like a great well rounded individual who did her overseas in a challenging foreign language instead of an eash English speaking country.</p>
<p>In addition, with her knowledge of Spanish, she will be a real addition to any medical facility due to large numbers of Spanish speaking patients</p>
<p>I would not rely heavily on some anecdotal 'major" privilages for anyt major (if any at all). Just get great college GPA, decent MCAT score…etc. and you are in if you apply to reasonable number of Medical schools that match your application well. There are NOT that many tricks other than these well known facts. As far as foreign language, frankly D. did not mention having 3 of them (not equally fluent), just because she did not feel like mentionning. As I said, GPA, MCAT, ECs, the other stuff is not that important at all, including your major, triple major, combo of major(s)/minor(s), D. had several examples of various ones around her at her UG, including a friend with triple major (one of them - Spanish, being fluent in Spanish since childhood). None of it seem to matter.</p>
<p>My theory on the classics major phenomenon (and this may be completely wrong because it’s based purely on personal experience/speculation):</p>
<p>Classics majors tend to be people who were exposed to Classics in high school via taking Latin and/or Greek or taking courses where they read more than just iliad/odyssey. The types of high schools that offer such courses tend to be more affluent/better schools. Kids from more affluent/better schools tend to be better prepared and thus more successful in college. This is what distinguishes them from other humanities majors. The group of classics scholars who ALSO decide to go pre-med tend to be even more ambitious than the aforementioned group and thus tend to do well because they are good, smart, students to begin with not because of what they studied.</p>
<p>In other words, just randomly deciding to major in classics while you’re in undergrad is not going to have an impact on your success.</p>