Majors you take seriously

Alix2012
Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:54:26 +0000

don’t know any pre-med majors who actually REALLY want to be doctors

You’re an Arts major so you probably don’t have many preMeds in your classes. Believe me, these folks REALLY want to be doctors. My classes are chock full of them and they’re annoyingly competitive and obsessed - who would put in that much energy for something they don’t care about? preMed isn’t a major…most are doing Bio and Chem, until they switch to Psych because it’s easier lol. :0

One little point I’d like to add is that a major’s required classes are one thing, and what many of those who actually do that major accomplish is quite another. Many premeds I’ve noticed don’t take overambitious chemistry and biology schedules, noting that their foremost priority is to maintain their GPAs. It’s a perfectly great career aspiration to want to become a doctor, but I won’t deny that someone aiming for biology or chemistry graduate school probably will take a more interesting schedule, and thus will catch my attention more easily. My observation from having both premed and standard chemistry (and chemical engineering) friends.

I agree with this. My major is divided into Med-bound students and Grad-bound students, and the Grad School bound ones take the harder classes for electives. I guess it’s since we don’t have to worry about our GPA’s as much, so we can take more interesting advanced stuff they’re worried about.

If I was a Math/Engineering major, my head would be inflated from reading this thread. i go to a very artsy school where people just ignore the sciences and think they’re useless, so this seems weird to me.