<p>Is it better to major in Music or Bioengineering if I want to go to Med school?</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter as far as medical school admission or success. Might matter depending upon your eventual career goals and interests. </p>
<p>Med school admission much more dependent upon GPA, MCAT scores, experience in health field (volunteer or related work), interview. If you could earn a 3.8 in music but only a 3.4 in bioengineering, the difference in admissions chances would be night and day. Conversely, if you are more talented and suited to bioengineering, and could get higher grades in that than in music, that might be more suited.</p>
<p>The hard reality is that only a sliver of those who enter Cal intending to go to medical school end up in that field, most being weeded out or changing their interests. Therefore, another IMPORTANT factor is which degree would be more use if you don’t go on to med school - do you see a future in music and the arts or a future in engineering?</p>
<p>That is one of the problems I was thinking of. I don’t really want to be a musician for a career, but I just want to continue playing my violin. I’m just worried for bioengineering, there actually aren’t that many job opportunities when compared to other engineering majors.I’m not sure if bioengineering is a good major.</p>
<p>What you need to work out is your plan B - if you decide not to go ahead with medicine, what would you want to be doing. As part of that, there is your educational plan B - what degree would you want to earn, whether that is because of intense personal interest, support of the plan B career, or some other set of factors? </p>
<p>Pre-med students can take any type of major at all. The only ‘benefit’ to taking one related to biology is that the pre-reqs for that degree and the med school list of pre-req classes are so similar that you minimize additional courses you might have to take. With a very different major that has extensive course requirements for the degree, you might have some very full semesters to handle both. The huge downside is the bio majors have all the other premeds competing for the few grades in each class that keep you competitive for med school admissions (e.g. very high GPA from almost 100% A grades).</p>
<p>make your plan B Caribbean schools.</p>
<p>I’ll try to figure out some sort of plan B then. Do you know of any other health related majors that don’t require med school? I still think I want to do something health related.</p>