<p>Is biomedical engineering a very strong and popular major at Yale? Would taking only Math IIC and Biology (and a language) for the SATIIs for SCEA be alright?</p>
<p>I don't know how strong it is, but it's not extremely popular. About 11-15 students major in it each year.</p>
<p>!!! Thats not very many! Would you happen to know why?</p>
<p>Take whichever SATIIs you'll score best on. The admissions officers don't care which ones you take, regardless of intended major.</p>
<p>Yale has one of the best biomedical engineering departments in the country. Unlike biomedical departments at many larger universities (e.g., Cornell, where the medical school is hundreds of miles away from the main campus), all of Yale's resources are on the central campus, accessible to all undergraduates. Also, Yale is one of the top recipients of federal research funding in the country - it gets $400,000,000+ of federal science research funding per year; by comparison, Princeton receives $100,000,000. Yale's figure is especially impressive on a "per student" basis when you consider the number of science students. That's because Yale focuses on educating students as best as possible, not on graduating the largest number of students it possibly can.</p>
<p>If you look at majors at Yale, across the board, you'll notice almost all of them are pretty small. That's because Yale itself is quite small, especially relative to the number of faculty and amount of research going on there. Many majors have just 5 or 10 students per year. But that means the students in them get all the personal attention in the world. For that reason, Yale and Caltech are by far the best places in the country to study science as an undergraduate. They have by far the lowest science major to science faculty ratios in the country.</p>
<p>Any SAT2s would be fine - in general, take the ones you think you'll score best on.</p>
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For that reason, Yale and Caltech are by far the best places in the country to study science as an undergraduate. They have by far the lowest science major to science faculty ratios in the country.
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I wouldn't go quite that far. Duke's science major-faculty ratios compare quite favorably to Yale's. For example, the EOS department typically graduates 4-6 graduates every year (15-30 if you include Env. Science), and the department has 105 faculty members. The only real difference is biology, where Duke's ~180 majors is considerably larger than Yale's ~100.</p>
<p>In 2003, Duke received $520,191,000 in R&D. Yale received $387,644,000. It is important to note, however, that once the medical center money is subtracted, Duke received $153,652,000, and Yale received $169,204,000- the edge goes to Yale in undergrad related fields.</p>