<p>Normally I’d recommend secondary education, but med schools kinda frown on ed majors. And there are million bio teachers looking for jobs. Unless he is also certifiable in your state in other areas (esp in demand are math and physics), an ed degree is no longer a ticket to employment.</p>
<p>What is he good at? what does he like? </p>
<p>Right now the fields with best employment prospects are things like engineering, math, statistics, econ, computer science, information technology…none of which are good fits for your son because his math is behind the curve and he’ll have too much catch up to do in order to complete his major. Options in employable vocational fields like nursing, business and accounting are also frowned upon by med schools.</p>
<p>And you’re smart to insist on a Plan B. Med school admission is not something anyone can assume will happen. I made my kids both have a back-up plan. (For one kiddo it was Health Physics, for the other it was neural engineering.)</p>