Pharmaceutical Science or Biology?

<p>If you could be more specific with your questions I might be able to provide more a more helpful response
Very Generally speaking:</p>

<p>Pros

  1. Fairly easy to get into a research lab (and there are a decent number of drug/pharmacy oriented labs)
    1b. Excellence in Research program - presentation of results, posters, paper etc
    [UCI</a> Bio Sci Student Affairs: Research: Excellence in Research](<a href=“Undergraduate Cabinet - School of Biological Sciences”>Undergraduate Cabinet - School of Biological Sciences)
  2. Free Biology tutoring to help you through the hard classes
    <a href=“EEE+ Home | UCI”>EEE+ Home | UCI;
  3. Bio Sci 2B seminar spring quarter freshman year
  4. Lots of interesting upper div bio electives</p>

<p>Cons

  1. Large class sizes in bio/chem/physics (300+) until you get to upper div biology electives, some of them get very small, smallest upper div bio elective I have had was between 15-20 students.
  2. A couple of the very early classes are weeder classes, but that happens everywhere I would think, not just UCI
  3. Bio 100 (required upper division writing class) super boring pass/no pass class with a bit of busywork.</p>