Many B.S. degree chemists continue their education in the health-related fields such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. Every year our chemistry majors interested in medicine enjoy a high acceptance rate into medical school. Chemistry is not just another science. It is special in a number of respects. Chemists take a distinctive and unusually clear view of what happens around them, and their ability to do this affects their lives in interesting ways.
Chemists have many different ways of putting together an understanding of something.
They have both mathematics and descriptions at their disposal, and they usually use them in combination. Chemists choose equations and words and build models to increase the effectiveness of their explanations, and to please the eye and mind. Like writers and psychologists, chemists are always concerned with the way people communicate among themselves, and what they mean by what they say. They have to understand their colleagues in other fields often times better than their colleagues understand them. Chemists also have something in common with artists, besides pride in what they can do with their own hands.