sincerelya1

Hello! I'm an entering freshman to Texas A&M University this fall with plans to become an RN, and I had a few questions about what major change I should select. Currently I am a Biomedical Sciences major (A&M doesnt have a nursing major), but I am looking to switch majors because I don't feel a BIMS degree would be right for me. I am stuck between choosing Nutritional Sciences (B.S.) and Allied Health (B.S.). Both will allow me to complete my pre-requisites needed to attend nursing school, but the courses specific to the major are different. Nutritional Sciences, in addition to a bunch of nutrition courses, also contains much more chemistry courses that I wouldn't need for nursing but would need to graduate with that degree. Allied Health doesn't require any extra sciences than what would be needed for nursing school, and its degree specific classes are all Health related. With either major my pre-reqs would be completed and I could apply for the 15 month accelerated BSN program at TAMU's nursing school. So my question is, is there anyone on here who graduated with a Nutritional Sciences degree and went on to nursing school? Did you find the major to have helped you at all in nursing school, or were the extra science classes unnecessary? If there's anyone who majored in Allied Health and then continued to nursing school, any suggestions would be helpful as well as to whether that degree prepared you well enough. My concern is with getting a degree that will give me an edge and maybe help make a few nursing school classes easier. Also, what can one do with an Allied Health degree alone? Same with Nutritional Sciences. I'm just worried that, were I not to make it into nursing school, I'd want a degree I could fall back on and possibly make a career out of. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!