Pre-med in Minnesota

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:52:29 +0000

RE: majors. Major in whatever academic area you’re most interested in. Currently, there are no particular advantages to one major over another when it comes to admission consideration. (See NOTE below for what’s on the horizon.)

Engineering (all types) tends to be a difficult major and engineering majors on the whole tend to have lower GPAs than non-engineering majors.

NOTE: the MCAT will be undergoing major changes in content beginning in Jan 2015

[Overhauled MCAT to Be Released in 2015 | News | The Harvard Crimson](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/11/students-mcat-new-more/)

Because of the MCAT changes it is extremely likely you will see significant changes in the required courses for medical school admissions. In addition to the currently required courses, it appears that biochemistry, cellular bio, molecular bio, psychology, sociology, statistics, perhaps even medical ethics [philosophy] will be required for the MCAT and med school admission.

If these change do materialize, it will become increasing difficult to major in fields other than biology/biochem and still meet medical school admission requirements.