<p>HELP PLEASE… I am very dedicated in the arts field and you can see that through both my achievements and the amount of time that I have spent pursuing this. I want to study medicine at Stanford and eventually become an oncologist. Should I apply with art as my major and transfer, or should i apply with art as my minor and something in the medical fields as my major? Which way would it be eaiser for me to get in? Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>You can major/minor in anything you want as long as you fulfill your pre-med requirements, which actually depend on which schools you are targeting. They aren’t all that different, though.</p>
<p>You don’t apply into a major at Stanford. You can put your tentative idea on the application, but it’s not required. You apply to Stanford as a whole, and when you get here, you can take classes and decide what you want to major in by the end of your second year or beginning of third year. Stanford is great about giving students the idea that they can explore and discover what is intellectually interesting to them.</p>
<p>Pyleela is right; what you major in has little if no bearing on your chance of admission to medical school. Med schools want to see that you’ve studied something that you truly enjoy.</p>