Biology is worthless as a major; as long as you take the pre-med requirements, they don't care what your major is.
Granted, Biology requires a lot of the same classes, so it might be easier to be a bio major if you're already pre-med, but the biology degree itself isn't worth anything.
Taking more irrelevant classes is probably harder (as I said), but because it's harder it is also more impressive and thus looks better on your resume (as rms said).
I slot accounting under finance. but yes. the reason those two B.S.s are useful is that there is ALWAYS work for book keepers and coders. any city, any time. Might not always be good work, but you'll always be in demand.
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I thought it was common knowledge that the only 2 useful B.S. degrees are C.S. (and related) and Finance (and related).
Biology is good if your grades are good enough to get into a professional program. Not so much otherwise.
Biology is worthless as a major; as long as you take the pre-med requirements, they don't care what your major is.
Granted, Biology requires a lot of the same classes, so it might be easier to be a bio major if you're already pre-med, but the biology degree itself isn't worth anything.
For the purpose of getting into med school, as long as you take the pre-med requirements, you are better off majoring in anything but biology.
That's news to me. It seems like majoring in anything else would be a waste of time because you would have to take more irrelevant classes.
Taking more irrelevant classes is probably harder (as I said), but because it's harder it is also more impressive and thus looks better on your resume (as rms said).
Some of them prefer that you have a degree, but it's true that you don't have to have it.
Accounting is more useful than finance.
/did both
I slot accounting under finance. but yes. the reason those two B.S.s are useful is that there is ALWAYS work for book keepers and coders. any city, any time. Might not always be good work, but you'll always be in demand.
I'm a programmer writing accounting software... not always exciting work but there's no shortage of work to be done.
handling software for accountants is probably the holy grail of "can't be fired".
Unfortunately you can graduate with a degree in finance and not know shit about accounting.