Thanks for watching everyone. Where my neuroscience majors at!? BTW in case you missed the point of the video: the major your choose is less important. How you prioritize your time, how you study, how you do on the MCAT is more dependent on you, and less on your major. If you liked this video, you'll love the weekly newsletter: medschoolinsiders.com/newsletter/

In conclusion, study what interests you.

every pre-med bio major watching this: they had us in the first half not gonna lie

"100th percentile as the statistically illiterate would say" 😂😂😂 coming through with the heat I see Doctor

FOR NURSES THAT WANNA GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL.-I graduated from an accelerated BSN program (15 months). After getting my BSN and working for around 2 years on a ER department. I finished all my pre med courses, I didn’t need to take some bio classes because of my nursing background, neither psychology. I just needed, calculus, physics, and the Chemistry classes. I’ll leave all the extracurriculars aside, all I can say is that I did around +1,000 volunteering hours at a hospital. This was my pre med journey, I considered myself a non-traditional applicant. And surprisingly enough, I was accepted to my top Choice D.O School.

My sister’s friend went to USC and became a French Language Major, but since he also took the required classes, and excelled in them, he was able to meet the requirements to get into UCLA’s Med School

Will medical insiders still exist by the time I’m in med school, I really hope it does I’m only in 8th grade right now

Any major you are passionate about = great grades + memorable

Engineering to Med School, wassup!!!

It’s not a surprise that those who do best on the MCAT are in majors where problem solving is a core function and not just memorization. There are only so many facts that will help you get by. The MCAT is set up to make you use your understanding of the material and manipulate it to find the answers to the questions.

Neuroscience major just Like me. Let's hope I score 99.9 percentile as well

I really don't agree with non-bio majors being an uphill battle (except maybe actually difficult majors like BME, math, etc). As an English major I had a lot of free time to go out with friends, to focus on difficult prereqs like biochem and do well in them, and to get a higher cGPA. And to have unique EC's and rec letters that comment on my creative and communication skills in a way science-based activities/courses don't. I don't know about most schools' requirements but I also had room to take a lot of upper-level biology electives as well. I'm sure some people love bio but the premed requirements already give you bio classes...undergrad is a time to take what you actually like because you'll be studying medicine for many years to come

Me, a math student who wants to get into med school, watching this and remembering how everyone told me that this was the hardest path.

someone crazy enough to major in math has to be really passionate that's why I think they did better.

I wish you would've covered more about Psychology since it's a fairly popular non-biology pre-med major. I am a Psychology major and a neuroscience minor and (at least at my school) was afforded a ton of electives for the required courses, as well as great overlap with neuroscience courses. Psychology is applicable to all sorts of contexts. For me, I took a lot of social science courses which taught you about discrimination and disproportionate treatment of different population groups, including within a medical setting. Because Psychology is not heavy with lab courses, I was able to tutor for multiple years at my school and explore different interests. I am graduating with a 3.94 GPA with numerous awards in Pscyhology. I am applying this cycle and honestly could not have pictured embarking on this path with a different major.

It’s important to note that the GPA garnered from any bio/chem/math/physics class counts towards the BCMP GPA that med schools care about about as equally as MCAT. So history majors have a lot fewer classes counting towards that number

im kinda glad i went with engineering as my major. it is rough getting the prereqs and major requirements done but i believe it to be worth it. the level of math and physics i have to complete has heightened my analytical and critical thinking skills instead of plain rote learning. because of this i think im more prepared to get a good score on the mcat. and if all else fails, the job outlook for engineering is good.

pre med here! want to know my major? economics

I’m just starting college as a biology major and this was super helpful! thanks for making this

For me I pick history as my college major knowing it would be an up hill battle for medical school but I’m loving it so far

I'm majoring in Bio and I'm glad I picked it. Tbh, I fell in love with it during sophomore year in high school and would have stuck with it regardless, but watching some day in the life videos by med students, I do see the overlap especially in Anatomy, Physiology, and Micro specifically Pharm. I know this might not be too accurate of a picture I'm painting here, but one thing I can say for sure is that my Bio prereqs completely cover my med school prereqs which is SUPER NICE. Not only is Bio the love of my life, but it seems like a really great stepping stone to med school and I've never been happier.

Thanks for the reassurance, Dr. Jubbal. I decided last year to pursue a Kinesiology degree. I love sports and fitness and it's amazing to work towards med school studying about my hobby!

Feeling a lot better about sticking with neuroscience from day 1. I’m about to enter my junior year of undergrad as a pre-med and I’ve been loving it but have always been nervous about whether I picked the right path or whether I should have shifted my focus. Thank you for this video!

I got a B.S. in Microbiology. I dont necessarily regret it, however, I'm working as a Case Manager before I start med school and I would have LOVED to study more of the social science aspect of public health. Seems kinda overlooked in medicine today

I’m a senior that has changed my major THREE times... from Geology-> Geography-> Nursing. I finished my Nursing prereqs in Fall 2018 as a Junior but started to question myself if Nursing was for me. In short, Medicine is for me. Changing paths can be tough and confusing at times. Videos like these are smoothing my transition to pre med. Thank you.

I have so much gratitude that i found this channel😌 i am currently a freshman in community college and have been doing horrible due to lack of motivation. I never struggled to understand all the material i was thrown at in high school (i always took AP classes). The only thing that killed my motivation was the work that came with those classes. Medical school almost seemed like a “yeah it would be nice but its too long and i might not be able to do it” kind of dream. But now i know i can do it. My fascination for the human body always gets me excited and now this channel will keep me on track for this journey. Thank you so much❤️

I'm studying biopsychology! Iv'e had lots of success and failures but I'm still persevering. Thanks for uploading this!

I love how you analyzed the stats but also included other factors into this video. Very informative for incoming med students!

I always thought what my Dad did was pretty clever: he got a general studies degree and tailored it for his med school's requirements and MCAT subject material. That way he didn't have to go waaaay back in his memory to study for the test. He also minored in psych which he said really helped.

I love this channel sm! It never fails to make me proud for wanting to pursue a career that is very rigorous, yet so worth it ! THANK YOU !!

I just found this channel and I’m so excited!!!!

“correlation does not imply causation” One of the only things I’ve learned in stats

Going to start college next month as a marine biology major. Glad I've found this channel now. 💕 subscribed

Thank you for reducing my teenage angst in choosing exactly which college major will satisfy the aspirations my parents have for me.

I am beginning college this fall as a neuroscience major (pre-med track of course) and I think it'd be very interesting if you could do a video on the major specifically!! :) Love the content!

It's nice because I'm a Neuroscience major. Thank you so much for helping us:) This was just perfect to get me through the process.

Nursing then medical school wassap👋🏻

Thank you so much for these videos, although I’m only in highschool these really help me especially this video!

An incredibly informative video; thanks! I'll be going into college this year to study Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

This os the fiesta video I watch from you Andrew I can say this is the best medicine Channel on KZfaq, I am gong to start as a pre med un neurocience, thankyou a lot

This is interesting to know. Because we have a different case here in the Philippines. The most popular premed majors here are the allied health courses. Medical students here are already registered nurses, pharmacist, radtech, lab tech or physical therapist. Biology and psychology majors are quiet popular either. We chose these majors because we believed it would help us with the subject matter on medschool because we have some prior knowledge already. We have less emphasis on admission test (which is known as NMAT btw) and I think med school here focuses more on the premed performances. 😀

I would also imagine that math requires high critical thinking skills, especially in upper division classes. while chem & bio require those skills, there’s a lot of memorization involved. math teaches you how to think through a problem with certain knowledge and solve that problem. it’s also often tested in classes in a different format than taught, at least in higher math courses. those are the skills needed for the mcat so math majors are essentially learning mcat test strategies while in college.

Looks like I’ve already taken or am taking those prereq courses! Nice, right on schedule. Thanks for the info!

This is perfect timing because I was just doing research on this topic the other day and was thinking about choosing biology as my major when I graduate high school.

Do medical school care about all of your education // credentials ? I have a background in FASHION & STEM.. I completed an A.S. DEGREE IN FASHION DESIGN & finishing up my BACHELORS DEGREE IN BIOCHEM .: I’m just curious if they will acknowledge my 2 year degree 😭 I’m not sure how the application process works ... hope we can put our list of completed majors so they won’t just acknowledge me as a science major.. I just want them to see that I’m well rounded

I was just thinking about my future college major, as I'm going to graduate high school next year. This video was so helpful! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for making these videos!! I’m entering college next year, and I just want to know everything possible to make me a better candidate for med school and your videos help so much! Thx again! :)

Thank you so much for this! I'm currently studying Neuroscience😁. Anyone else?

Great advice and generally aligns with the information we provide students in my office (Health Professions Advising at Princeton University). That said, we feel less inclined to encourage a biological sciences major as an "easier path" and generally encourage students to pursue their genuine interest instead. Overall though, this is excellent. I was surprised to find such high quality advice on KZfaq. Keep it up!

Why am I watching this, I don’t even want to go to med school.

According to the video the acceptance rates for each major are: Math and Stats 47.6% Humanities 47.2% Phys Sciences 46.1% Social Sciences 40.9% Other 40.2% Bio Sciences 40.2% Surprisingly, bio science majors were the lowest. However, if you looked carefully at the Applicants/Matriculants chart, you probably noticed that this fact is kind of misleading. Bio science majors have 29,443 applicants, compared to the next highest number of applicants from the “Other” category with 9,546 applicants and social sciences with 5,143 applicants. It’s unfair to compare more than 29K bio science majors with a mere 353 math and stats majors. It’s likely that considering the math and stats majors have the highest MCAT average and GPA, they were extremely focused in med school from the beginning of college, maybe even earlier. Like how he said, the thing to take away from this video is that there is no sole pathway/major that will get you into med school. If you are truly lost in what you want to major in, then go with biology, it just makes sense. At the end of the day, it’s your GPA, MCAT, and extracurriculars - that’s why the math and stats majors have the highest acceptance rate. (It’s also possible that these could be some kind of outliers or coincidences. I am not well-versed enough in how statistics work but it’s evident that maths and stats majors have a different case than other majors.) I may be wrong about something but those are my two cents.

I also recommend thinking of alternative tracks in case medicine doesn't work out for you, especially majors that lead you directly into a specific job (i.e. engineering, accounting). I double majored in humanities/biology and I was accepted into the school of my choice. Many people with similar degrees did not make it into medical school and were not able to find well-paying jobs with humanities or biology degrees after college. What would you do with your biology degree if you don't get into medical school? Remember that the loans still require repayment even if you don't make it.

Again liked before starting 😁

I was wondering if you could do a video regarding non traditional Medical School Applicants, I wish there was more videos about it when I was applying to Med School as a Nurse then pre-med student.

These videos are super helpful! Thank you for what you do!

i love bio and i think its gonna work better for me because my track requires almost all of my pre-med requirements and it leaves me room to take gen eds that also can go toward my major, other major, and pre-med concentration. Thank you for the video!

Damn in the first half I was seriously considering switching my neuroscience path for a math one

GRIT is the answer to everything.

I double majored in Microbiology and German - lots of work and a little extra time. I loved German, excelled in it, and wanted to spend a year studying abroad at a German university. I got the added benefit of getting great grades in the humanities - which offset my good (but not great) science grades. I got in early decision at the University of Michigan Medical School. I was then on the admissions committee while in school there. I recommend picking a major that you like and can do well in - your overall GPA is the most important factor, and taking the needed classes that will help you excel on the MCAT. Good luck!!

Thank you for this very useful video!

You're literally a life savior. I'm about to become a freshman in high school, so I have a lot of time to think about how I am going to navigate my career path. I am so glad that you have created this channel because now I can base my choices on something that is reliable and helpful. Thank you!

I’m only a junior in high school but I’m stuck between choosing biology or humanities as my major, this really has helped a lot, thanks!

Your videos are so helpful thank you!

I’m a senior in high school so thanks for this video because it made me figure out what I want to do.

Thank you, I love you for this ❤️❤️❤️

My favourite KZfaq channel! Thank you for all your helpful tips!!

I’m a high school senior and I want to be a doctor!!!! Thank you for helping me with these free resources :D

Great content. Love you Dr. Jubbal

Discuss about going for a graduate programme first, let's say Master's (or even Doctorate), before going to medical school

I really want to go to med school, this really helped me! I was planning on a Microbiology and Biochemistry double major and this just made me more confident.

Im not even sure if I want to go into the medical world, but I love watching these videos. You do a really good job covering the entire field of play, to the point were you make me think about many things in life hahaha. Really love this channel, and no matter how small, I always Take some rn ing away from it. So good job, this really is one of the few outstanding channels in KZfaq.

I am actually in my 2nd year of college right now and I'm a biology major. This is really helpful, especially exams just passed through and I don't even know if I did just enough.

As a high school senior that wants to be pre-med this answered a lot of questions for me thank you! I still don’t know what I want to major in though :/ hopefully I can figure it out before I start applying next month.

Really appreciate your videos' contents. But I'd really love it if you could do more videos about matching for residency programs

Aeronautics Major (I'm an Uh-60 Pilot): Great insight I need to start working on my prereqs. Wonderful video keep up the good work.

Thanks for guiding me , u are THE BEST DOC

I'm a 2nd Year Nursing student in my MidYear--and I really aspire to become a licensed Plastic Surgeon--and in nursing school I relate to the fact that I see MedSchool as a long shot because nursing skills and competencies are already challenging enough as a pre-med and there is no guarantee that you won't feel burn out as well as the economic constraints along the way. Basically it's up to your mental strength and burning passion to drag you to the finish line. Btw love this channel. Just Subscribed. PS. I wish I can comeback to this comment as a surgeon in the future 🙏🏻

im only a jr in high school but college and career in the future is ALL i’m set on run haematology here i come

I graduate with my RN next year but just decided to make the leap and take medical school prereqs. I really hope that a lot of the undergrad research and clinical/volunteer experience I've done will help me be a better candidate and overall doctor. I've realized I really want to just know more-- more in-depth pathophysiology and HOW medications work. But if it doesn't work out, then I'll be a very curious RN who loves asking the doctors questions. For example, we had an infant in the ER code with septic shock, cardiogenic shock, renal failure, and a potassium of >9. The attending had us give albuterol, which is not something we would have ever considered, to get her potassium in check without increasing the risk of fluid overload! I was amazed and just in awe at how quickly the baby improved over the next 24 hours (I was with her on the PICU). Really solidified my desire to just know MORE. Thank you for all these videos, they are seriously so encouraging and informative!

This is really really helpful!

Like he was saying towards the end, you need to challenge yourself! Keep a full schedule and include courses whenever you can that will prepare you for difficult subject matter later on in medical school. And I have to advocate for public health, which was my major for undergrad. It was extremely beneficial for these main reasons: 1. you get exposed to many topics related to medicine besides just the biological sciences. I learned about the healthcare system, healthcare ethics, epidemiology, diversity and inequality, social problems, policy, and more that I was able to apply on my secondary essay questions and even in my interviews! 2. it is more work because it does not overlap very much, if at all, with pre-medicine requirements. But this automatically challenges you to have a full schedule and take a variety of classes to beef up your application. 3. you will stand out significantly more as a result. I believe that I appeared more well-rounded compared to my peers who majored in biology or biochemistry by showing interesting in medicine in a way other from the scientific approach. Schools want to know that you are aware of issues, that you can get along with other people, and aren't just automatically following the path that the majority take. I know public health is a relatively uncommon major to be offered in undergrad, but it is essentially an interdisciplinary major so you will likely find a lot of the same classes I took, especially if you are at a large college or university. If you are really interested in biology or whatever, GO FOR IT! BUT, look for other classes to fill in your schedule.These can include ethics, epidemiology, English, communication, etc. that are relevant to medicine! *I am speaking as a current first year medical student, and I just graduated from college in May! Of course there are many other factors, but I feel very strongly about the need to incorporate these other classes, besides the biological sciences, and keeping your schedule full.

This video was very interesting and reminds me of Ivy League law school acceptance rates. Ivy League schools tend to accept a 175 (out of 180) or higher on the LSAT, and according to statistics, STEM majors, especially math, statistics, and engineering, received the highest score on the LSATs while political science majors received the lowest.

My pre-med is Pharmacy here in the Philippines 💪 Thank you Dr. Jubbal for this very informative video 💯

I’m loving the expressive voiceover lol

I’m in medical school. I have a degree in biochemistry and a degree in biology. If I could do it all again I’d drop the biochem degree and focus on more extensive biology classes because the foundational biology knowledge is super important for doing well in medical school. Getting into medical school is hard, distinguishing yourself from other people who got into med school is harder.

Please can you a video for international students... it’ll mean a lot... thank you so much for ur videos

I have decided to become a bio major because I’ve always loved science, especially the life sciences. Everyone has told me how hard this major was, so I started to become skeptical if it was the right one for me. I have to say though watching this video gave me insight on what I wanted to do and now I feel this is the right one for me so far! Thank you for the info you provided appreciate it!

I am currently in BMCC and I hope to get my Bachelor's by 2024 and start my medical school but I didn't know much until today. Thanks for the video

Public health, BABYYYY! and I love it. But I can definitely see why we stay in the field instead of moving forward with med school. Public health is a vast field with interesting nuance and rewarding opportunities to help people. I love it. But it definitely ties into Healthcare very well, and I would like to see more doctors come with a public health background.

When I was in Graduate School at the University of Texas (Organic Chemistry), I taught the Pre-Med students Organic Chemistry Lab. We had about 1600 premed students as Freshmen. About 125 got into any Medical School. So what are you going to do with your Degree in Library Science if you don't get in? You will be $150,000 in debt with no job. Consider that. I like your concept of "Survivor Bias". If you can get a BS in Mathematics with a good GPA, you have demonstrated that you have the intelligence and drive to survive Medical School. For example, In my Freshman class of about 30 Chemistry majors, only 5 of us graduated with a degree in Chemistry. After working as a PhD Research Chemist for 4 years, I went to Medical School. I didn't do as well as you on the MCAT: only the 94th percentile. I have been practicing for 40 years. BTW: some Schools do not look favorably on applicants with advanced degrees. "Are you a professional student?"

Thank you for this...helped me a lot

I was very unsure in what Mayor to persue, because I was intressted on a mayor in Biology with a concentration in Biotechnology, but all that changed when I discovered a mayor at the university that Im attending called Biomedical science that as a requisite had all the clases needed to entering to medical school, even the ones that are mentioned in the video that not all med schools required and because I have other interet's in doing other concentrations some even outside the science mayors I decided to choose Biomedical science as a mayor so I could have some free room later as I progress through my mayor. And who knows maybe I end up going back to the biology mayor wich would not be that difficult since both mayors have very/almost the same requisite clases. Any ways Im very exited for this journey and I thank this channel for giving me the confidence I needed to persue my dream. Thank you Doctor Jubal!

99.9 percentile ‼ Bruv 😂 thats possible 🤣 And can I just say it is INCREDIBLE how much you and your team work for us. Thank you so much

I'm an engineering major and I'm just happy to stand out from the thousands of bio/chem/neuro majors. Added bonus is I get to learn the highest level of critical thinking and problem solving (Which I've heard radiologists deal with big decisions) and I get to work for a few years after graduating to save up for med school. If I don't succeed or enjoy med school, I always have a great plan B that I could live comfortably off. For now it's a grind. EE+Pre-med+Part time job.

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I needed this for college thanks

I have always had a deep interest in psychology and am thinking about majoring in it to get into med school! - a junior in high school

Thank you so much. I have a bachelors degree in interdisciplinary studies and am pursuing a biology degree for med school. Key element: survivorship bias. That’s it!

Thanks for the vid! I'm still focused on pursuing PT then med school but taking up bio actually made me think about still pursuing PT. It's also kinda hard tho since here in our country, there's not exactly a variety of biological majors that you could take if you want to go to med school, which is why so many students instead pursue a degree where they could fall back on if everything else fails. But this video helped alot! Thanks again!

I’m the Air Force currently and am aspiring to be a radiologist oncologist or ophthalmologist. I’ll be checking back in a few years to this video to say I finally did it after all the years of studying and working after my dream.✨