<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I'm currently a senior who is interested in pursuing a Biomedical Engineering Degree in college.</p>
<p>My top 2 choices as of now are VCU Biomed and Case Western Biomed.</p>
<p>Case would be an obvious choice, but I have reservations due to my grad school ambitions. I would like to go to medical school one day, and for that to happen, I need to maintain a good GPA. I've heard that Case has an extremely hard Biomed Program.</p>
<p>Also, is a strong background in physics required for Biomedical Engineering? Because physics would probably the only subject that I can't deal with.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the help :)</p>
<p>Did you also look at The University of Rochester for Biomed Engineering?</p>
<p>I’m not apply to the University of Rochester. It’s a really amazing university and all, but I had a chance to visit, and I just didn’t like it.</p>
<p>I’ve visted Case and VCU, and I like the campus and everything, so I know I can be happy at either place.</p>
<p>It’s just the question of rigor (& it’s affects on one’s GPA) that’s bothering me.</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering is a rigorous course of study at ALL schools. You aren’t going to find an “easy” bioengineering" program.</p>
<p>You also need to set your priorities. Do you want to be a biomedical engineer or a physician? Do not think of the first as a good path to medical school, but as an occupation in its own right. A PhD may be a better path to working in something medical than the MD degree for a biomedical engineer.</p>
<p>Choose the school that seems to be the best fit and have alternate schools in mind. Never choose the school you think you will be able to get the best grades at- you will get the best grades at the school that best fits you. You will also get the best grades in courses you like as well as have aptitude for. If you are searching for a school you can get good grades in perhaps your real interest isn’t the biomedical engineering. Any major can be used for entry into medical school. </p>
<p>Skip the getting top grades factor and look at schools that interest you. You already want a school with good biomedical engineering. Among those schools explore the total campus experience- location and all of the other factors to choose which school you can see yourself at. Many, if not most, entering freshmen either haven’t decided on a major or change it so it is important to look beyond one department and see if the school seems to be a place you could study at overall.</p>
<p>The main reason I’m doing Biomedical Engineering is because it’s the second most attractive career choice to me after medicine. Incase I don’t have the grades for Medical School, I want a career to fall back on.</p>
<p>My parents find it paradoxical that the career that I’m using as a fall back may be the cause of me not reacing Medical School.</p>
<p>Case is hands down better than VCU. </p>
<p>If you want BME as a fallback for Med School, the jobs you would get as a Case BME will be much better than that from VCU.</p>
<p>Yeah, Case will probably be harder. But it’ll be worth it, Med Schools take Case much more seriously than they would VCU. Same thing goes with employers.</p>
<p>BME = all physics. If you hate physics, you may hate BME. Just a thought…</p>
<p>WealthofInfo,</p>
<p>Really?!?</p>
<p>I looked at the course sequences for VCU and it only required one Physics class, all the other ones were more bio/tech related.</p>
<p>Case might be different.</p>
<p>Thispakistanigir, I don’t think you can go by the required classes that are specifically Physics classes. My S is also a BME major (I think at the same college as WealthOfInformation), and by the beginning of his junior year, he had no more Physics or math classes, other than one Statistics class. </p>
<p>But he showed me one of his BME textbooks, and it had so much incredibly advanced math that it blew my mind. Just pages and pages of extremely complicated math formulas, with some expository text thrown in! I can’t remember the name of the course, but it was a required core course (Systems Bioengineering, maybe?), and nothing in the name of the course would have led me to believe that it was so math-heavy.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that BME is an engineering major, and my understanding is that engineering tends to have a lot of physics and math.</p>