<p>I’ve worked with couple of professors and Dean of Medicine at University of Florida recent years and here’s what they told me unanimously.</p>
<p>Any majors that requires a lot of lab hours. (popular ones are Microbiology, Biochemistry…) </p>
<p>Out of science majors, Psychology and Chemistry had the lowest acceptance rate out of all pre-med majors, whereas Biochemistry was rated (or considered as, more or less.) as number one. Following biochem are: microbio, biology, APK…so forth.
Biochem averaged about total of 40% acceptance rate from last year (and previous years).</p>
<p>For non-science majors, the highest accepted majors were Music-performance and Bio-engineering. Both majors had total rate of 60% (each). Clearly, these two majors out-rated science majors!
-interesting fact: Med school admissions look for music majors because musicians are believed to have a special ability of learning things. (Apparently something in the occipital lobe triggers…i don’t know the deets) </p>
<p>Common misconception:
-Biochem department having 40% acceptance rate does NOT mean out of 5 people 2 people get accepted. This simply means that out of certain # of biochem applicants, 40% of competitive applicants were selected not RANDOMLY 40% of the population was selected.
-Likewise, doing music won’t necessarily increase your possibility of getting into the school. You have got to prove that you’re capable of doing science major stuff WHILE you’re non-science major.
-GPA of 3.5 or higher is considered as being competitive. if you’re going for top rankings, 4.0 for sure.</p>