There is no “better” major as far as med school adcomms are concerned. They do NOT care what your major is, only that you’ve completed the pre-reqs. In my daughters’ med school classes, there were students with majors that included: forestry, Italian, theology, business, public health, music composition, communications, physics, BME, biochem, neuroscience, English Lit, plus just about anything else you can think of.
In terms of the most successful major for pre-meds (i.e. highest acceptance percentages)-- that would be humanities majors (48% acceptance rate), closely followed by math majors (47%). But there is significant selection bias involved–very few humanities (only 1738 applicants) or math (342) majors apply to med school.
Health science majors fare significantly worse than any group.
Oh, another quick question. Are you allowed to retake the MCAT several times like you can with the SAT and [ACT]
You can, but there are annual and lifetime limits on the number attempts. You’re allowed to take the exam no more than 3x in one year and 7x in a lifetime. However, some schools explicitly say in they won’t consider applicants with more than 3 MCAT attempts. Med schools very strongly prefer “one and done” applicants who have a strong score from a single sitting. (There’s evidence these students are more likely pass their medical boards.)
There is no super scoring for the MCAT.
Also medical schools will receive every score from every MCAT you’ve ever taken when you apply. Adcomms will see all your scores and once seen those older weaker scores can’t be unseen. (Meaning adcomms can use it a datapoint during admission consideration.) At many schools, the formal policy is to average all MCAT scores and use the average score as your “actual” MCAT score.
I agree with @MYOS1634 post graduation employment prospects for bio and bio subspecialties (microbiology, neuroscience, cellular bio, etc) are not terrific. Chemistry and biochem do somewhat better than bio, but still there are more grads than jobs and most jobs will be in industry (think petroleum, agriculture, chemical manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, etc) or education (teaching HS or MS).
You can improve post grad employment prospects for a biology degree by learning coding/programming skills, taking additional math classes (stats and probability in particular) and doing summer internships in industry during undergrad.
If you like sales and have great people skills, there is a lot of money to be made in pharmaceutical and medical device sales.
I agree that you need to be open to other healthcare professions. Medicine is a team sport–everybody on the team has a role to play whether they are a physician, a podiatrist, a therapist/technician, child life specialist or a social worker
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