<p>Is anybody planning to or has majored in biochemistry or biochemical engineering ?</p>
<p>biochemistry omg....</p>
<p>u know that is the hardest major to major in.
no one has ever gotten a 4.0 in that major.</p>
<p>the thing is u study life and the interactions it has on a chemical basis. not only do you have to have the knowledge of the living organism, but the chemical aspects of it as well.</p>
<p>did u major in it ? yah, have heard its hard, dunno why it got into my head , to tell u the truth, i don't even kno why I want to major in that or what its' taught in that .
isn't there anybody else?</p>
<p>u know that is the hardest major to major in. ====> This is so not true. I am a biochemistry major, and all the biochemistry classes I've taken were simply the harder versions of biology classes (except you don't learn ecology and evolution all that crap). Yes, you need to take a whole bunch of bio/chem/physics/math classes, which not everyone can handle very well, but if you are diligent enough, they are definitely do-able. These subjects are definitely not as hard as, say, quantum mechanics and fluid dynamics.</p>
<p>no one has ever gotten a 4.0 in that major. ==> Again, I don't feel this is true. I've a GPA very close to 4.0 (3.9), and I happen to know several biochem people whose cumulative GPA is 4.0 (or very close to that number). </p>
<p>I am from a major research public school that has very strong biological sciences programs.</p>
<p>Collegegirlee: If you want to do research or go to med school, then biochemistry will probably be a useful degree to have. However, if you want to get a job straight out of college or at most get a MS, then biochemical engineering will be a better choice. In this case, you might want to major in chemical engineering, which I heard, is quite difficult too.</p>
<p>im having the same problem. i just chose biochem as a major bc i did well in math and science classes in school...how well do u have to do on the mcat to have a chance to get into med. school?</p>
<p>National average for all MCAT takers is about a 24</p>
<p>Average for all applicants is a little bit higher than a 27</p>
<p>Average for all matriculants is about a 29 though it's getting closer to 30 with each passing year (actually, all the scores have been trending upward over recent years).</p>
<p>To assure you'll be competitive in admissions you want to get at least a 29. However there are plenty of people who get in with lower scores...</p>
<p>how much is this out of? a 36???
and if comparing this to the SAT scale, i know the SAT is much easier. but if you were to compare this. what would the score be? like a 2200/2400?</p>
<p>I would rather major in biochemical engineering if that gives me plenty of job opportunities, however difficult that major is. But what actually is the difference between biochemistry and biochemical engineering?</p>
<p>In biochemistry, students learn about the chemical structures of DNA, proteins, lipids, and how they are synthesized inside cells. You will also get some lab exposures and learn some techniques such as PCR, electrophoresis, Southern blotting...etc. Unfortunately, they teach you very little about what industry really wants, for example, FDA rules and cGMP regulations. The curriculum is basically to prepare students for med school or research.</p>
<p>My school doesn't offer biochemical engineering as a major, but I would imagine it's very similar to chemical engineering, except you probably need to take a few additional biology, biochemistry and microbiology electives.
Biochemical engineers deal less with the basic sciences of biochemistry and microbiology, but instead focus on the design of bioreactors, the maintenance of cell culture and the purification of useful biomolecules from these cells in a macroscopic scale. The curriculum in school covers a lot of thermodynamics, mass/heat transfer, process control and physical chemistry.</p>
<p>It's out of 45, no one ever gets higher than a 42. And I don't mean no one as in "no one ever gets a 2400 on the new SAT" (which happens but rarely) but as literally no one. Last year out of 70,091 unique administrations of the test, only .1% achieved a score of 42.</p>
<p>It's impossible to compare the difficulty to the SAT, but the best measure is %ile breakdowns. 90th %ile is usually at 34, with some slight variation from year to year as to what the exact range is. In 2004 when I took it, a 34 translated to a %ile range of 92.0-94.2. However you must realize the academic and intellectual qualifications in the population of MCAT test takers. It's much more difficult to get the 90%ile on the MCAT compared to the SAT simply b/c of who is taking the test.</p>
<p>how much weight do they put on the free response?</p>