<p>So I'll be attending Case Western in the fall, and I've been set on pre-med for a while.
However, I'm having difficulty with choosing my major.
I got a 5 on the AP Bio test, and I'm interested in biology. But I'm also interested in evolutionary biology, the 10th grade chemistry I took, and most science-y things.</p>
<p>However, I learned that BME has a lot to do with MRI machines, and more specifically...prosthesis and such.. which i find extremely interested.</p>
<p>However, I'm a pre-med, so I won't necessarily be using my BME degree itself.
I also have NO Calc knowledge( besides pre-calc), No Physics knowledge( Never took physics in highschool), No programming knowledge( Never took c++ etc), No advanced Chemistry knowledge( didn't take Ap Chem)</p>
<p>Does BME look that bad in such a scenario? Or are the courses taught from scratch</p>
<p>Like I'm EXTREMELY INTERESTED IN THE ACTUAL BME COURSES:
<a href="http://bme.case.edu/Undergrad/Courses%5B/url%5D">http://bme.case.edu/Undergrad/Courses</a></p>
<p>especially 307. Like more interested than I am in any other major offered by Case.</p>
<p>But I really don't like the engineering core-well just the engineering aspects- and it's not like that I don't like it...it's that I'm afraid of it.
<a href="http://bme.case.edu/Undergrad/CurrentStudents/UndergradDegreeProg/DegreeEngineeringCore%5B/url%5D">http://bme.case.edu/Undergrad/CurrentStudents/UndergradDegreeProg/DegreeEngineeringCore</a></p>
<p>Yeah. Sorry for the rant. But I can't ask anyone at school. My parents dont know much about this, and I really want to hear outside opinions from ridiculously studious college kids and their parents :)</p>
<p>Your pretty much going to have to work EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA HARD if you want to succeed in BME. BME at my school requires hardcore knowledge of programming (Java and MATLAB) along with Physics and Calculus (Multivariable, Integral, and Differential Equations).</p>
<p>if engineering is what you want to do, dont worry about what you took in high school, your undergraduate prerequisites should prepare you sufficiently well for engineering courses. Also, know that you won’t be able to do much with an engineering undergraduate degree in BME if you actually want to work as an engineer unless you do graduate education</p>
<p>Well at Case apparently: Both semesters
Freshman year: Intro to Biomed Eng, Chem. for engineers, Calc I, Elementary Comp Programming, Chemistry of Materials, Calc II, Physics I.
Sophomore Year: Physiology/Biophysics I,Calc III, Physics II, a BME course or an elective, Physiology/Biophysics II, Intro to Dynamic Systems(Math), Intro to Circuits & Instrumentation(Engineering), another bme course or elective, humanities course.</p>
<p>Junior Year: Intro to Biomaterials, Biomed Engineering Lab I, Prof. Communication, Biomedical Systems and Circuits, ThermoFluidsandMasstransfer, Biomed Eng Lab II, Principles of biomedical instrumentation, BME instrumentation Lab, Mechanics and Materials(Engineering), BME specialty course 1, specialty course 2, humanities.</p>
<p>Senior Year: Senior project in biomedeng, specialty course, another bme specialty course, one stats class, humanities, modeling of biomedical systems, bme comp lab simulation, another specialty, and two open courses.</p>
<p>Completely disregarding the med school portion of the response, I would say that there is no problem with not knowing these things ahead of time. These courses are all part of the typical freshman list of required courses because they don’t assume that you know all of it coming in. In fact, there are plenty of high schools in the country that don’t offer calculus or physics. They teach you these the first year to make sure that everyone gets it. If they expected you to know it already, it wouldn’t be on the list of required courses, it would be a prerequisite.</p>
<p>But Calc for scientists and engineers ( Calc I ) isn’t an intro class =/</p>
<p>Looks like an intro class to me. It has a 100 number, and covers intro topics.</p>
<p>If it looks like an intro, sounds like an intro, and smells like an intro, its probably an intro.</p>