<p>I might be interested in Brown’s undergraduate engineering concentration in biomedical engineering. If I do decide to pursue this option if I am accepted to Brown, how early must engineering majors begin to take engineering-related courses? I’m also interested in applied math/economics and I want to pursue the pre-med advising track. Suggestions, tips? I need to know whether or not to put engineering as my number 1 or number 2 choice on the application.</p>
<p>If you want to graduate in four years, and want an ScB, you need to start engin courses first semester freshmen year.</p>
<p>I’m just guessing here, but I would think that most of the pre-med requirements are part of the biomedical engineering requirements. That’s easily checked. I think you can take applied math courses to satisfy engineering, too… There is space for other classes, about one/semester (assuming the ScB), so you can take some econ classes, too.</p>
<p>If you’ve got a really good essay thought out for why you want to do engineering, it may be beneficial to choose engineering, because you’ll essentially get more space on the supplement to describe yourself. I did that for physics, and it seemed to work well.</p>
<p>Once here, some possibilities: take 2 engineering courses first semester, as well as an applied math course that could count for engineering (meaning put off math 20 until spring), and explore things that way. Or, an AB in engineering is a fine thing, provided you don’t really care about going into industry (there are many, many reasons to learn engineering without getting a ScB, even if you can’t get an entry-level engineering job at Boeing… many of Brown’s engineering grads take different professional paths anyways).</p>