Schools with a health science major?

lostaccount
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:09 +0000

I will second that caution about the name of the major. In some schools “human development” or majors with similar names that don’t reflect actual disciplines are euphemisms, and not for “premed” but rather euphemisms for “you can pass and play basketball too”, and they are considered jokes, easy A’s and are not usually selected by strong students. Human development is not a discipline, for example. So at some schools it means lack of rigor. That may be true of many of these but Human Development is particularly likely to be a “low level” major. Obviously I’m not talking about majors like epidemiology or physiology or even “public health” in very strong schools. But, I can tell you in the schools i know best, Human Development is considered to be simply a joke. So be careful not to take yourself out of the running for a competitive graduate program by selecting a major know to lack rigor. Investigate the reputation and trajectory associated with a particular major in each school.