Most Useful Pre-Med Major

[Anonymous]

Medical family there. We are both doctors and have 1 in residency now and 1 in second year of medical school. Both of mine were humanities majors but definitely strong in sciences. Pre-req are all the same regardless of your major. Mine took anatomy,
orgo , biochem, etc as undergrads and felt prepared (as much as you can be) for their first year. I think it is really the pace and depth which is the most challenging. Not sure that there is an undergrad degree that prepares you for that. Even if you are a biochem major there are plenty of non biochem classes you need to take in medical school.

Also people really overlook what medical schools want now. They want the highest GPA and MCAT score. However you can get that is the way to go.

[Anonymous]

there are many existing threads on this subject here, some very recent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Medical family there. We are both doctors and have 1 in residency now and 1 in second year of medical school. Both of mine were humanities majors but definitely strong in sciences. Pre-req are all the same regardless of your major. Mine took anatomy,
orgo , biochem, etc as undergrads and felt prepared (as much as you can be) for their first year. I think it is really the pace and depth which is the most challenging. Not sure that there is an undergrad degree that prepares you for that. Even if you are a biochem major there are plenty of non biochem classes you need to take in medical school.

Also people really overlook what medical schools want now. They want the highest GPA and MCAT score. However you can get that is the way to go.

+1

Yup. LOTS of certain kinda parent changing their minds but QUICK.

[Anonymous]

The real question is how hugh can you TUTOR?

[Anonymous]

My child is on a pre-med track, but he's doing a data science/health science major.

He is strong in data science, not the best writer. This track allowed him to take gen bio, gen chem, organic chem, and bio chem as "core" subjects. He spaced them out so that he can maximize his efforts in them. His pre-med adviser stressed keeping his GPA high. One of the reasons why he chose a combined major. He absolutely rocks data science.

He has some friends that repeated calc (they could have used their AP scores to exempt them from first semester) so that they could pump up their GPA. So by any means necessary, keep that GPA high.

He'll work in a job for two years studying the mcat, gaining med related experience.

Again, whatever field of study, keep the science GPA and cumulative GPA high.

[Anonymous]

I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

What year?
Med school admissions are very different now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

What year?
Med school admissions are very different now.

NP - it’s not that hard to believe. My daughter is an English major and a current senior and accepted to med school w/o a gap year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Hopkins medical school tuition is $62,000 per year. I don’t know where this poster got their numbers.

I think PP meant $200K.

Well, my kid is M3 (2.5 years) and we have spent more than 200k already (230 or so at this point). We expect to spend 350k by the time kid graduates. Public instate med school.

May I ask how much you budget for annual living expenses including things like rent, food, transportation, exam prep and residency applications?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Hopkins medical school tuition is $62,000 per year. I don’t know where this poster got their numbers.

I think PP meant $200K.

Well, my kid is M3 (2.5 years) and we have spent more than 200k already (230 or so at this point). We expect to spend 350k by the time kid graduates. Public instate med school.

May I ask how much you budget for annual living expenses including things like rent, food, transportation, exam prep and residency applications?

For M3, COA shows about 85k - about 50k for tuition and additional 35k for all other stuff combined. In our case, other than 50k, we are paying 25-30k (1000 per month rent, 1000 per month CC (food/gas...etc.) so the total comes out to be around 80k. Does not include other expenses like computer, a new car (to do rotations)...etc. it IS expensive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

What year?
Med school admissions are very different now.

NP - it’s not that hard to believe. My daughter is an English major and a current senior and accepted to med school w/o a gap year.

I would guess she’s an English major who took all the science pre-reqs then? Leaving that part out is missing a big part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

What year?
Med school admissions are very different now.

NP - it’s not that hard to believe. My daughter is an English major and a current senior and accepted to med school w/o a gap year.

I would guess she’s an English major who took all the science pre-reqs then? Leaving that part out is missing a big part.

I think some folks say things just to make a point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I majored in English and went to a top 20 med school.

What year?
Med school admissions are very different now.

NP - it’s not that hard to believe. My daughter is an English major and a current senior and accepted to med school w/o a gap year.

I would guess she’s an English major who took all the science pre-reqs then? Leaving that part out is missing a big part.

I think some folks say things just to make a point.

+1
Be aware no is doing straight English major classes and getting in to medical school without a gap year.

[Anonymous]

molecular/cell biology major + history of art minor at an ivy ~20 years ago

medical school interviewers loved my humanities interest

radiology interviewers thought H o A was a prefect segue into their (and now my) specialty

the truth (for me at least): biology made medical school so much easier while H o A made me a much more rounded, interesting person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Vet school is a terrible idea. Just as expensive as med school with a median salary way less than a physician, in some parts of the country they make well under 100k.