<p>i just finished my freshman year at wash u as a bme major. I really want to get into med school and the bme curriculum is very tough, so I was thinking of transferring into bio. However, with the research opportunities, etc available in the bme department, I don't know if transferring is the right choice.</p>
<p>from a med school applicant point of view, do you think it is better to try and stick with the hard major or should I go for the easier major and get a better gpa?</p>
<p>i think it depends on what you love more. Do you just want to be a doctor and will do whatever it takes to go to med school? or do you actually love bioengineering and want to pursue it and then later go to med school? If your answer is yes to the first question, definitely switch (depends on your GPA, what is it now?). If not, stick with BME, it’s a great program and you can still do a lot if med school doesn’t work out. I think research opportunities will be abundant in any department so don’t worry too much about that.</p>
<p>My top priority is to get into med school, but from what I have heard, bme provides job opportunities after college in case I don’t get into med school (which is why I have been doing bme thus far).</p>
<p>My cumulative gpa is a 3.7 out of 4.0 but I feel that I could raise it to at least a 3.9 doing bio. </p>
<p>and Johnson (or anybody else), could you tell me more about the research opportunities in the bio department? Like can you get into a research lab on campus, which professor(s) you recommend approaching, do you get your own project to do , etc?</p>
<p>With a 3.7 you can def. get into med school. Maybe not the most selective in the country (which is actually WashU’s, I believe), but getting into med school shouldn’t be a problem.</p>
<p>I’m a bme as well (actually, same year as you), and if I was pre-med, I would switch to bio immediately. (I want to go into biotech though, and have never, ever wanted to go to med school, but that’s just me).
If the goal is to get into med school, go bio (or even spanish or anthro) or whatever you feel you can do your best in.</p>
<p>Now for research- just go to the bio department’s website and they have TONS of opportunities. Or you can go to the undergrad. research website and find offerings there. Seriously. There is no lacking of research opportunities in the bio department.</p>
<p>I’m matriculating this year as a BME. And I definitely hope to go to medical school. Is BME really that bad GPA-wise? </p>
<p>I’m trying to get into one of those MD/PhD (MSTP) programs, and I would really like to do my PhD in Biomedical Engineering…so I don’t know if I <em>can</em> switch to something like anthropology…</p>