<p>Do graduate school admission committees have a preference for either a bachelor in science OR in research/work experience? </p>
<p>I can do a bachelor in science (double major) with little to no work experience OR a bachelor in arts with two minors and lots of research/work experience…</p>
<p>Generally speaking, research and/or work experience. Nobody cares whether your diploma says BA or BS.</p>
<p>What admissions committees care about:</p>
<p>-You having all of the prerequisites you need to succeed in the program. So if you’re - say - a psych major who wants to do biopsychology or neuroscience, it doesn’t matter whether you pursue the BA or BS, as long as you have taken biology 101 and molecular bio or whatever else it is you need to take the higher-level classes you will take in the program.</p>
<p>-Top grades. Shoot for a 3.5+, especially for PhD programs.</p>
<p>-Experience in your field. If you are shooting for a professional program (MBA, MPA, MPP, MD, JD, something like that) that’s going to be some kind of internship or work related to the field - shadowing a doctor, or paralegal work for a lawyer, or a summer internship as a junior policy analyst or something. If you are going to a research-based MS or PhD program, then research experience with professors matters.</p>
<p>So long story short, if doing the BS will mean you are so tied up with class that you won’t get any experience, do the BA and then just take some of the BS classes for electives if they are useful.</p>