<p>How are you doing? Looking back, was engineering a good choice for pre-med??</p>
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<p>Somebody better not bring up the fact that engineering make bad premeds.</p>
<p>I would like to know the answer to this question too.</p>
<p>Engineers can make excellent doctors.</p>
<p>They just tend to have really low GPAs and therefore are at a disadvantage in med school applications. Even in the sciences, they can be out-gunned by sociology pre-meds who have nothing else to do besides orgo, orgo, and more orgo. Engineers tend to take those classes alongside really challenging courses and cannot devote as much time to them.</p>
<p>If you insist on doing engineering and pre-med, here is the helpful part of my post:
*Do as much as you can over the summer. If you can take organic chem (the most important class for med school) over the summer and devote all of your energy to it, you'll be in much better shape.
*Don't kill yourself - space out the engineering courses over four years.<br>
*Don't get too excited about APing out of stuff - better to take the A in physics and chem and than to AP out and get a B in higher-level courses.
*If possible, do a post-bac programme; do engineering, then, when you graduate, take the pre-med courses that you haven't seen yet. (You'll need two physics, two general chem, two organic chem, and two bio.) That way, you can take them as a much more mature, efficient, and not quite as overworked student.</p>
<p>I guess that goes to show your answer. They aren't many and for a good reason. Not because they make bad pre-meds but because engineering is usually much to life-consuming considering that it isn't going to be pursued as a career and that the insanely high standards to which a student has to compete would usually burn one out before med school even begins. Also getting an A is difficult. In my accelerated organic chem course only the top 10% got A's. That was 11 kids. Sad. 20% got below C. After that almost every single pre-med but maybe one or 2 dropped. (Less than 10 remained before that so they caught on that maybe it wasn't the best idea to do accelerated chem as a pre-med.)</p>
<p>But there are successful pre-med engineers? (I hear that BME is a very popular pre-med major...). What does it take to be successful?</p>
<p>Devotion, genius [opt. but it would help a lot], and a willingness to be competitive not only once you get to med school but much before then. This often involves the sacrifice of a social life. A lot of engineers have social lives, they just don't get as high of GPAs as you would need for med school.</p>
<p>yeah, I've always wanted to go the BME-->Med school route, but now i'm not so sure. I figure if i decide i want to go to med school I'll transfer from BME to an easier Premed major or something.</p>
<p>I am interested in this also. I am enrolling at Carnegie Mellon and am thinking about double majoring in BME and ECE, but I don't know if this would completely crush all med-school dreams. I think I'm gonna stick with the engineering route though just because I don't know how feasible going to med school is for me anyway (financially and the overall difficulty of getting into med school regardless of major).
Any thoughts?</p>
<p>yeah, that's exactly how I think. I'm a chemE major (i know IlliniJBravoEcho, it's hard;)) but could easily be a straight up chem major. Double majoring in engineering is pointless in my opinion especially since there are a lot of crossovers in majors.</p>
<p>CMU only offer CME as a double major...you have to combine it with a traditional engineering major.</p>
<p>But eh. I just sent in my enrollment there and I am now a member of the Mellon College of Science instead of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (school of engineering). Gonna major in Computational Biology :)</p>