I am a high school who is thinking of applying to the University of Pennsylvania for a double major in BME and Business. I am thinking of doing a double major in both of these areas for bachelors’ and masters’. Do you think it’s worth it? I am a freshman right now at high school program, which accepts only 120 students out of over a 100 students and am aiming at this lofty goal.
What SAT/ACT score should I aim at?
What specialized courses should I take?
How many years will it take to finish my bachelors’ and masters’ combined?
Do you recommend any other universities that have a good BME and Business Program?
Once, I finish my studies I hope to start my own company of biomedical products.
@Cheetah71 You should look into the M&T program at Penn. It is a coordinated dual degree program between SEAS and Wharton at Penn. You can also do an uncoordinated dual degree but it means more courses and a slightly heavier course load.
Time to complete it depends on how heavy a course load you are able/willing to take. Most people do finish in four years but it means taking 6+ classes a semester and/oror taking a few summer classes. A few stay an extra semester or year.
For Penn you will of course need top SATs (1500+(new sat) to have a good chance), and GPA in the 3.8+ (preferably 3.9+ range), and very solid ECs.
Penn M&T specifically is quite more competitive than Penn overall (think Harvard, Stanford level) so you need even more impressive stats and ECs to have a decent chance.
If you apply M&T you will designate one school (SEAS or Wharton) as your second choice if you do not get into M&T. If you do not get into M&T but you get in the school you designated then you have the option of applying again for M&T at the end of your freshman year (super hard to get it) or apply for an uncoordinated dual degree any time until the end of your sophomore year (significantly higher chances of getting that vs M&T).
@Penn95 I am in a very rigorous program and here are my classes 3-4 years:
Freshman Year:
Magnet English 9
IB Pre-Calc HL
Magnet Biology
Magnet/AP Government
IB Spanish 4
AP Com Sci
PE
Sophomore Year:
Magnet English 10
AP BC Calc
Magnet Chemistry
Magnet/AP US History
IB Spanish 5/AP Language
Anatomy and Physiology
AP Art History
Junior Year:
IB English 1/AP Lit
AP Stat
IB Biology I
IB History I
IB Spanish 7/AP Spanish Lit and Composition
AP Physics C
TOK
Senior Year:
IB English HL/AP Lan & Lit
IB HL Mathematics
IB Biology II HL/AP Biology
IB Economics/AP Micro & Macroeconomics
AP Psychology
AP Chemistry
AP Environmental Science
17 AP Courses
Is this a good enough transcript for Penn M&T or Stanford?
@Cheetah71 yes your curriculum looks good. If you are able to maintain a high GPA with this curriculum and also great scores and great ECs then you will have a good chance for schools like Penn and Stanford.
@Cheetah71 at the masters level at Penn there is not a standalone program, but you can pursue your MBA and your MSE at the same time, as two standalone degrees, so there is the option to do MSE/MBA.
it is just not a program like the M&T for example. You are just completing the two degrees.
@Cheetah71 depedns on what kind of workload you are wiling/able to take. The MBA is not a really rigorous degree, grades don’t really count, so i is not unmanageable. you would need around 3 years i think. The MBA is 19 course units and the engineering masters around 10 (depends on the kind of engineering). Also you can double count a few electives between he two degrees so say 27 course units total.