Should I go pre-med or switch my major? Future Bowdoin student

dotheunthinkable
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:23:53 +0000

Hi, I’m a senior this year and I have made a verbal commitment to play women’s lacrosse at Bowdoin College. I want to go pre-med and I have heard that you can basically have any major with pre-med, so I want to major in Sociology because it is something I am very interested in. I founded my own organization dedicated to helping kids in the inner city so I think a Sociology degree can help me with community service in the future since I want to do that for the rest of my life. However, I am worried that I won’t have the time to keep my grades that high to stay on the pre-med track/be able to go to a good med school because I’m playing a sport. I’m not really a math/science person now, but I go to an okay public school, unlike the prep schools that a lot of Bowdoin students come from. That being said, if I decide to let go of pre-med, I feel like it will be difficult to get a job with a Sociology degree. Is playing a sport at a DIII school going to affect my grades enough that I won’t be able to go pre-med with a major that has almost nothing to do with medicine?