Indecisive for Pre-PA/Pre-Med Major

AriesTwin035
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:48:35 +0000

My sister and I are high school seniors and are planning to go into the medical field. She is aiming to be a PA, while I’m aiming to go to med school (PA is my second option, dental school is my third option).

However, my sister is in a situation where she cannot decide her major. She really wanted to go into a major that she could excel in (initially, Art), but my mother is advising her to not do that because it has no correlation with the medical field, even though she can take the required pre-PA courses alongside her major. Now she is thinking of majoring in Psychology and taking the pre-PA courses with that major. She’s not particularly fond of the sciences (which is why she doesn’t want to major in Biology), but she is determined enough to do well in her pre-PA courses on to become a PA. I believe she has a 3.0 GPA, but I have no clue if that is her weighted or unweighted (she won’t tell me).

For me, my situation is that I have the ability to take a Biology major, but I am really unsure if I should take that route. I like Biology, but I heard that a Biology major is rather difficult than other majors and I really don’t want to risk having a low GPA because of it. I was thinking that maybe it would be better for me to major in Psychology or Philosophy, as I’m just as interested in those majors as I am with Biology, and just take the pre-med courses with it. I currently have a 4.0 weighted GPA and a 3.79 unweighted GPA.