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What college majors should I choose I want to become a pediatrician or pharmacist, but unsure of which one?

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1. Actually, chemistry would probably be the best way to go. The majority of those majors and programs you listed are for people who aren't planning on continuing to professional school. To apply to med school, you'll need to take the premed courses in bio, chem, physics and math, and pharmacy will have a lot of overlap in it's pre-pharmacy courses. So your major really doesn't matter as long as you took the pre-requisite courses, but all the programs you listed are training for specific jobs and aren't general education for professional school, and that's what you want.
2. To be a pediatrician, you'd have to go to med school so your undergraduate major should be something general like biology. It doesn't look like there is a specific program for pre-med pediatrics. Maybe "Health Services- General" would work, but I have no idea what exactly that entails. If you don't want to do more schooling than just undergrad, you could go for "Nursing- Pediatric" and be a pediatric nurse. To be a pharmacist, you should probably major in "Medicinal/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry," or perhaps "Prepharmacy" if you are planning to go to grad/med school for pharmacy. General chemistry might also work. Contact your college advisor or the Health Professions department and ask them what program/ major you should enroll in according to your interests. But to start off with, you'll probably be taking a ton of general biology and/ or chemistry classes and get more focused as you progress.