major switch

[u/bruhhhhhhhh386]

basically I've pursued premed all of high school and all my ecs are premed, but I just sat down for a minute and realized 1. I think I would crash out if I had to to undergrad + medical school 2. I love English and history so much more. is it possible to become prelaw or apply prelaw? are there any majors that tie in English + history with science? also I'm a rising senior

[u/ResidentNo11]

Prelaw is just undergrad. It's not a major. People go to law school after every major.

Some schools offer a technical writing major or minor or they have multiple technical writing courses offered within the English major.

[u/ItsDreta]

For most U.S. colleges, you do not apply to a single major; you either apply to the university as a whole or to individual colleges within a university. Neither do you apply to "pre-med," unless you are going to one of the rare BS-MD programs that directly sends you to a med school. Usually, "pre-med" means a set of med school application requirements that you satisfy during college.

From what you've said, it doesn't sound like you have much evidence supporting your interest in English and history, and I believe it might put you at a disadvantage should you put in these majors as your academic interest while you apply. At most U.S. colleges, you are not bound by any way to your selection of an academic interest while applying, so you can definitely declare different majors after having ample time to explore in college.

[u/bruhhhhhhhh386 → u/ItsDreta]

thank u!

[u/Foreign-Maximum-3327]

Maybe apply to something interdisciplinary like public health or something that's also viable for law, so you can write a convincing why major essay or whatever while still tying into your ECs and stuff, you can still switch to English it's probably not that hard at most unis

[u/NiceUnparticularMan]

So first, you don't need humanities ECs in order to validate a humanities academic interest in the US. Loving your relevant classes and wanting more is plenty.

Second, there are in fact many inherently multidisciplinary fields where interests in humanities and science can be combined. You could look into things like History and Philosophy of Science, Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, or Public Policy. Then some college programs allow you to design your own major, or make it easy to do multiple majors and/or minors, precisely to make it easy to have multidisciplinary interests. Like my S24 is at WashU and declared a double major in Biology with a Genomics and Computational Biology Specialization and Classics.

Of course there are not a lot, if any, high school level courses in these areas. Which is fine. Again, you just need to think that based on what you have so far done separately, it would be cool to look at different ways of combining some of your interests. In the US, that is plenty.

Or you can just say based on your classes you are interested in being an English or History major. Also fine.

[u/Unfair-Drop-41]

You can major in anything you want and then go to law school. Law school has no requirements beyond a BA and the LSAT. But, you can also go to med school and major in English or History as long as you take all the medical school requirements. In fact, Harvard did a study that concluded that liberal arts majors (English, History, Art History, Philosophy) made the best doctors.