what was everyone's majors?

[Suey]

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the pre-opt students that I met so far are mostly Bio Sci majors. I was wondering what was everyone's major here? Do opt schools care what your major is? I don't know about opt school, but I heard for med school, they want well rounded students and they'd prefer if you majored in something else than bio. has anyone heard of this?

 

[rpames]

It is true that they want "well rounded" applicants, but prefering non-bio majors...not really. I'm doing research at a medical school and the prof I work with said he actually wonders about the non-sci applicants. He said if you love sci and bio enough to be a doctor and devote your life to it, why would you get a degree in History? He likes to have students with more than just sci classes, but more than just the req courses. I would suggest doing what I did, I majored in Biology and minored in Chem and philosophy. The minor in philosophy shows that I am more than just a sci nerd, but the major shows that I am devoted to sci as my first priority.

 

[Eyegirl2k7]

I majored in psychology and took a lot of bio, chem and physics (much more than just the basic requirements).

I didn't have anyone ever treat me like my major was worth less than a bio major at any of my interviews.

Someone I met at NEWENCO told me that he couldn't get into ICO because a certain dean didn't think he could handle it being a music major--but I don't know if that's necessarily true.

Just my thoughts
Eyegirl

 

[rpames]

The bottom line is to major in what you will enjoy.

At ICO the break down is:
Bio - 75%
Chem/biochem - 8%
Psychology - 8%
Other - 9%

 

[J.opt]

I know that schools really don?t care about your major, but wouldn?t someone with a Bio/Chem major be better prepared for opt. School?

(I don?t mean this in an offensive way)

 

[rpames]

I think the bio/chem would help give them a head start, or a better background, but professional schools pretty much re-teach everything. Look at the classes, anatomy, physio, biochem... I have had them all already, but they are going to teach it all as if I have not had it before.

 

[Tyra]

My major is Biochemistry. I like both Biology and Chemistry so I couldn't imagine majoring in anything else. 🙂

 

[rpames]

I really debated over switching to BCMB (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) but decided not to. I think I'm only about 3 classes away. If I busted my hump I could have finished it this year but decided to take it easy and just finish my Bio major and chem minor. In the end I'm still going to ICO.

 

[Simisn]

My major is biology, and my minor is studio arts with a concentration on photography.
Dr. Julie Jackson (the director of admissions at UHCO) talked to us at a P.O.P.S. meeting last week, and in her little presentation one of the questions she addressed was "Do I have to be a biology major to get into Opt. school?", and she said no, that really doesn't make a difference.

 

[cpw]

i majored in biochemistry. It really doesn't matter what you major in as long as you enjoy it. If you can major in english and still do well in your pre-reqs.. you prove that you can do more than just the sciences. I really don't think it matters what your major is. I majored in bio chem and took p-chem.. lots of good that's doing me now... see what I mean?

 

[r_salis]

I majored in geography/cartography, worked as a cartographer -- went back for comp sci, worked as a software engineer for several years -- then went back to take the bio/chem/physics pre-reqs.

 

[Batlauren]

I don't know about everyone else's schools, but at UCI if you take all the prerequisites for optometry school.........you're practically a bio major. It doesn't really make sense majoring in something else. Biochem and Microbiology are nearly impossible to get into if you're another major. The school gives priority to bio majors. Also, if you really want to finish undergrad in 4 years, you can't really major in anything else AND finish your prerequisites. It's possible, but stressful. It only makes sense to me if you need to raise your GPA or if you're okay with going 5 years undergrad. If you're focusing too much on your classes for your major and not doing well in the prerequisites, then that also poses a problem.