<p>Is taking Aerospace Engineering and Pre-med a wise choice? Will I be overloaded?</p>
<p>Depends on your school, your innate intelligence, your own scheduling constraints… there’s no way anybody else can answer this for you.</p>
<p>There is a lot of discussion on this subject spread around the boards. Go to advanced search and search for GPA and ENGINEERING in the thread subject line. You will find a lot of advice.</p>
<p>The summary is as follows:
- Engineering is a superb preparation for medicine today, since technology has changed the delivery of almost every type of medicine
- It is almost always harder to pull a high GPA in engineering than in A&S programs
- Because of the crush of applicants, med schools do a lot of auto screening on GPA and MCAT scores, so if the engineering has hurt your GPA, it could cost you. While we would like to think med schools adjust for these things, most say they do not (at least on the initial screen). </p>
<p>So, you have to decide what is best for you. My advice: if you are fascinated with engineering and are just interested in medicine, then go for it and see what happens. If it is the other way around, maybe do a B.S. that covers the things you like and steer clear of engineering.</p>
<p>Well, i will suggest narrowing your interests. You will be either one or the other. Engineering will hurt your gpa unless you are a genius or really hardworking. Just pick whichever one you are interested in.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214387-what-should-premed-major.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214387-what-should-premed-major.html</a></p>
<p>Read the discussion here. GPA should not be your overriding concern.</p>
<p>I would imagine GPA would probably be the most important factor, since at UMiami med school, for example, the average GPA for accepted applicants was slightly above a 3.7. And a 3.7 in college is equivalent to maybe a 4.3 in high school.</p>
<p>Obviously that depends on what college and what high school.</p>
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<p>that’s probably the most random and unjustifiable comment i’ve seen here in a long time</p>
<p>Ok then… a 3.7 in college is equal to a 1.4 in hs. That obviously fits your grading scale a bit more.</p>
<p>Keyword: maybe</p>
<p>no… there is absolutely 100% no correlation whatsoever between HS grades and college grades…none at all, not even with a “maybe”</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^
no correlation whatsoever?
you mean to say how you do in high school and how do you do in college is TOTALLY unrelated? as in if you plot high school GPA vs. college GPA on a graph then the R value would be 0?</p>
<p>I had a 3.8 in high school and a 3.8 in college.</p>
<p>there are people who do really well in HS and then tank in college, there are people who do well in HS and then continue that trend in college and there are others who do pretty poorly in HS and turn it around in college…there is absolutely no way to generalize this at all…ESPECIALLY numerically, thats just absurd.</p>
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<p>even if you do plot HS GPA vs college GPA and find a relation it is probably due to confounding factors like lets say major, which HS or college you went to…not to mention grading scales can’t be generalized at all…don’t try to justify bubblythetourg’s comment…there is absolutely no way you can make a connection like that</p>
<p>Re post #11: Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if that turned out to be relatively true. (Not that r=0, but p>.05.) Most universities select from a very narrow spectrum of HSGPA’s and proceed to spread them out across a larger range. The difference between a 3.83 and a 3.91 in HSGPA is unlikely to be statistically meaningful, so they could get spread out all across the 2-4 range in college.</p>
<p>yea, and i had a 4.2 in HS and a 3.6 in college</p>
<p>There may be no direct correlation.Don’t forget though, how well you learn the logical reasoning in the sciences offered in HS can in many cases affect your grades in college. And I’m not talking about AP scores. Anybody can memorize/bs their way to a 5.</p>