High school senior here who just got into BME at Hopkins. Just wondering: Do many BME majors go onto med school a lot at all, or do they mostly go on to research/firm employment? Will BME in general ‘tank’ my GPA a lot at all?(I hear it’s very difficult). Also, would you all recommend majoring in BME if you plan to go on to med school, or would you recommend majoring in something else like neuroscience
Thanks in advance
What you major in doesn’t matter more than a hill of beans for med school admissions. Daughter graduated with a classics degree and had 9 med school acceptances. GPA, MCAT and EC’s are what matter.
The only caveat I’ll add to @CottonTales post is…whilst taking all the prerequisite classes.
BME seems to be a popular route for pre-meds these days because they think the BME is a good fallback. First, it’s not, as the good BME jobs require advanced degrees. Second, it will almost certainly make getting into medical school more challenging as the courses are harder and maintaining a high GPA, more challenging.
Now that you’re in, make the best of it. If medical school is your goal, be prepared to work very hard and for the competition amongst your classmates to be taxing.
E in BME stands for Engineering. Any everyone knows that any engineering majors is hard (kind of hard labor?) and it is not easy to get high GPA. And to complicate matters, you want to go to med school. Now, any med schools requires high GPA, MCAT, ECs. etc. Do you think you are up to that challenge?
On top of that, what makes it hard is the fact that JHU (johns Hopkins) is hard school to begin with and therefore it is not easy to get high gpa in any major/minor. And BME at JHU is even harder.
Now, don’t get me wrong that I am trying to scare you or anything. I believe intellectually speaking, you will be able to do it since you have been accepted at JHU and Adcom at JHU think you can do it too. Nothing is impossible.
At umich, at least half the undergrads doing BME are premed.
umcoe16: how many of those half the undergrads doing BME/premed will get into Medical School with high GPA as required. Med school is competition not many seat available and to make matter worse why anyone wants to make it hard to get that high GPA while they can get high GPA by doing biology or chemistry and not BME?
Daughter is a junior premed/bioengineering major. If you’re interested is med school major in something else. It is very difficult to manage the premed requirements and also try to meet the engineering school requirements at the same time. You will need to plan your premed classes ahead of time so that you can take the MCAT in spring of junior year.
Your schedule will be too tight to fit both requirements and you may end up spending an extra semester or taking a year off after graduation to work on the MCAT or med school admission requirements. You will not have time to balance academics and being involved in college activities or other EC’s . A lot of her friends that started bioengineering/premed dropped out. The engineering classes brought their gpa down. Her friends that majored in psychology, neuroscience, or biology had a much more flexible schedule. At the end it is your mcat scores, gpa, and EC’s that are going to matter for admission to med school.
@Tulanefan101 at Umich, undergrad BME is a joke compared to other engineering majors. They are the only engineering major with some grade inflation, probably because they take their student population into consideration.