Education major and Med School?

bluebayou
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:04:16 +0000

Hypothetically speaking, since education is a social science…



All professional schools prefer traditional liberal arts majors, and frown upon ‘vocational’ majors which includes education. Med schools in particular, want someone who is ‘all in’ and not planning for a backup.

If you choose a vocational major (which tend to have higher mean gpa’s), then your science gpa and mcat become much more important, relative to your consolidated gpa.

fwiw: Even tho Educ may have much higher curves, to me most of the material is about as exciting as watching paint dry. You couldn’t pay me to sit thru some Educ classes. Ed-Math and Ed-Stat is rather elementary (pun intended).

btw: I disagree with mcat that rank in major is even a consideration.