<p>so what's considered to be a "good" GPA for a BME? I got a C in BME140 =/ and along with other classes I did not do as well as I hoped, and my GPA for this semester is a 3.17...</p>
<p>A friend of mine probably has a 4.0 since he got an A in Gen Chem and an A+ in BME140.</p>
<p>On the other hand, he’s probably not just a “good” student. He’s brilliant.</p>
<p>Dont worry DarkKnight, I’m in a similar situation as you, I did not do as well as I wanted either. But just think, next semester we don’t have to deal with those ridiculous problem sets once a week! So much more free time! </p>
<p>To answer your initial question, my personal opinion would be a 3.3 is considered “good” while anything above a 3.5 is really good. 4.0, either you don’t get out much or you just really are that good haha.</p>
<p>I kid you not, I rarely find him studying. I can’t believe it.</p>
<p>In that case, what a champ, I need to make friends with people like him haha</p>
<p>RaVNz- I know people like that. Never study, A’s in everything. </p>
<p>Darkknight- For your first semester, anything between a 3-3.3 I’d consider “decent.” 3.3-3.5 “good.” And great for 3.5+.</p>
<p>Don’t stress a 3.17 at all. BME 140 is not indicative of how you’ll do for the next ~7 semesters.<br>
Also, in general for engineering, you essentially just want >3.0. There are some jobs that want >3.2, but I have yet to see an application that requests more than a 3.0 for the min (that’s for industry jobs, not research type positions).</p>
<p>Also as a heads up, they do publish rank between engineers in your year (it should go up in the next week or so; you can see it on webstac under “unofficial transcript”).
A 3.17 will put you in the bottom half, but as I said, don’t stress over it.</p>
<p>ok thanks. And speaking of gen chem, do they no use the + or - grades?</p>
<p>I know in Gen Chem II I had a B-.<br>
(Actually had to check webstac on that one since I don’t pay attention to +'s and -'s. Sucks that the current freshmen engineers have to deal with the change).</p>
<p>I believe they do. I think for the most part all artsci classes do.</p>
<p>Johnson, is the engineering school going to use the +/- for the GPA now? Because I thought that engineering didn’t use them but according to my friend’s webstac, he has a B- in BME 140.</p>
<p>I can confirm that engineers starting this year get +/- for GPA.</p>
<p>Darn, thats not what I was hoping to hear 
If I’m borderline, I’m more often at the low end of the A range than at the high end of the B. Oh well, not much we can do about that so there’s no point in worrying about it.</p>
<p>NW- anyone entering this fall in engineering (aka class of 2014’ers) has +'s and -'s count in engineering.</p>
<p>However, it should also be noted that engineering profs DO give +'s and -'s in a lot of the classes, even if it doesn’t count (for the non-freshmen).</p>
<p>From my experience it becomes much easier to get A’s once you start taking 300 and 400 level courses. Most of the higher level courses give A’s to 30% - 50% of the students. That’s not to say there aren’t exceptions (two being Transport Phenomena I and II), but you can generally expect your GPA to increase after your freshman year.</p>
<p>Yeah that is what I’ve heard the general trend is, which is good. I need it to improve mine because not too many people get into med school with 3.3’s. But in BME when you have classes like QP and Transport Phenomena (which is only one class now I think), it is going to take a lot of work to get more A’s than B’s.</p>
<p>Yes Gen Chem has +/-. I can personally testify for that.
A+ in BME. That’s brilliant. Beats all of mine =(</p>
<p>And the people who get really high marks and don’t seem to study… they probably do. Likely they are just independent studiers so you never see them around when they do study.</p>
<p>NW- not too many with 3.3’s but not if you’re an engineer. Being an engineer gives you a distinct advantage toward med school, but it is clearly NOT the easy way; on the contrary, I consider BME to be the hard way to med school. </p>
<p>yes, med school applicants generally have high GPA, but I have yet to meet current med school students or upperclassmen applying to med school who studied engineering as an undergrad. Mainly I suppose it’s because once you have an engineering degree, med school just seems unneccessary</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve had this conversation with my parents, my advisor, and half my floor haha. I know that I’m taking the harder path (as opposed to a humanities major, which tend to be less work than engineering majors). But I figure that a fair amount of people must apply to med school out of SEAS, there is a premed advisor specifically for engineers after all.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know what I want to do with my life yet; part of me wants to become a practicing physician, part of me wants to become a researcher, and part of me wants to become an engineer. The only thing I do know is that I want to do something in the healthcare industry. So at this point, I’m keeping my options open. All that really entails is taking organic chemistry next year (to fulfill premed requirements), and trying to get really good grades (which I want anyway).</p>
<p>Actually, I just saw an interesting statistic in the Career Center’s 2009 annual report. In that year, 9% of graduating engineer students went on the medical/dental school, and 12% of artsci students went to med/dental school. So, percentage-wise, it is not terribly uncommon for an engineering graduate to continue on to med school.</p>
<p>hmmm, that’s not a huge difference. But yeah I’m not too entirely sure what I wanna do either. I’ve noticed I tend to make really careless mistakes (which would explain my terrible GPA), so I don’t know if I can be a practicing physician; I mean with lives at stake, I don’t think I’d be qualified.</p>