<p>I’m not familiar with the business track at all (if it even exists!)…would it be feasible or easy to start off on a premed route and then “switch” to one for business school–say, into your sophomore or junior year? I’m also concerned that those premed classes won’t do much to help me get into a good business school (building business-like skills or whatnot)…</p>
<p>Dartmouth doesn’t offer business does it? If not, you’ll just declare your major in Economics and that’s doable to do if you switch out of premed. Make sure you take calc in your first year, no matter what.</p>
<p>No major in business, but I thought economics isn’t required for business school entrance? And I’m more thinking about keeping with the premed track rather than opting out completely.</p>
<p>business school = graduate business school?</p>
<p>you are not going to get an MBA with no economics.</p>
<p>Look up the requirements for some business graduate schools you’d like to go to. Then try to meet those requirements with classes offered at your school. I really know nothing about MBA admissions, but other pre-professional programs do not require you to have a degree specific to that discipline. You might could just major in something else that you’re interested in (for instance English or History, which could build your communication skills), while taking business school requirements. Why are you iffy between the business and premed tracks? It seems like it’s going to be hard to pursue both of them for very long. You need to figure out which one you really want to do.</p>
<p>MBA programs do not require specific courses like the medical schools do. However, I would recommend obtaining a background in microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics and any classes are the mildly related to business (social psychology, sociology, perhaps political science if you’re interested in organizational theory). I wouldn’t worry about preparation for business school, as you don’t really need any besides a good GMAT score and solid work experience – try to determine whether you actually have any interest in business school through taking related classes and interning.</p>
<p>This is exactly what I did. I actually took the first econ course my freshman year because that was going to be my major alongside the pre-med (decided that second semester) and I’m already ahead of most and could graduate in three years if I wanted to. I switched out of pre-med entering sophomore year. It helped, however, that I had AP Econ testing me out of one of the major econ prereq’s.</p>
<p>I simply realized that I would hate being a doctor and that I would rather have a normal office job or doing something academic. But you can major in almost anything and go to business school, just as long as you have some good background (micro/macro, stats, etc.) and a good GMAT score. So don’t give it too much thought yet and just focus on pre-med.</p>