Undergrad Preparation for Graduate Pharmacology Studies

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SWIM has been working on undergrad degrees in Chemistry w/ BioChemistry conc and Computer Science with some additonal minors in mathematics, psychology, etc. Ultimately SWIM wants to go to graduate school and specialize in Pharmacology or something similar and then go on to be a researcher. SWIM needs advice on what type of undergrad background would be best suited for this field. Would there be a point to even finishing the Computer Science degree as only a few classes remain and they don't appear to be useful and would just take time and focus away from Chem/BioChem. SWIM had planned on using programming as a tool in the research field, and it seems that while the degree remains unfinished there is little more SWIM can learn from any of the remaining requirements that would be relavent to pharmacology or psychopharmacology.

One professor had mentioned something about Computational Life Sciences and had encouraged SWIM to forget about all the rest of math/programming, as SWIM already has sufficient background in those areas.

Are there any SWIYs out there who might be pharmacology researchers (as SWIM strongly suspects) and might be able to offer some advice on what sorts of undergrad material would be useful and what would not be useful. SWIM has little time remaining and needs to take the courses she's going to take very soon as possible.

Thanks