How true is the saying that unless you get into Med school, a bio major will basically only getting you cleaning rat cages? I really like biology possibly as premed but I’m not sure yet, would it make more sense to switch to biomedical engineering? That is also very interesting but I worry if I do decide to go to bed school, an engineering major will be too hard to maintain such a high gpa.
If you google “biology major jobs” you’ll find a whole list of potential jobs that having a bio major can qualify you for.
Federal and state governments also hire bio majors for a variety of science-related management type jobs.
But the onus is on you to make yourself an attractive candidate to employers. You can do this by adding a few additional math classes to your undergrad coursework (particularly additional calc courses, probability, statistics), and by learning basic programming skills/software (MATLab, Intro to Java). You can also seek out summer internship positions in industry/government to improve your employability.
BTW, you don’t need to major in biology or BME to be a pre-med. You can major in any field. (My older D, now in her second year of residency, was a physics & math double major. She had classmates with majors that spanned agriculture, business, music performance, Spanish, theology.)
An engineering major does not preclude one from having a high GPA, but many people do find engineering difficult and their GPAs take a hit. Whether you will be one of those high GPA engineers who end up in med school-- only you know if you have that potential. (However, D2’s high school classmate/science lab partner who is now her med school classmate not only graduated with a 3.8 GPA in BME from Stanford, he was also a highly-ranked D1 athlete who qualified for the Olympic trials in his sport. So it can be done.)
Granting that it was long ago, a Bio major got me into law school. Whether this is better or worse than cleaning rat cages is left as an exercise for the reader. 