BS/MD

Hey! I was interested in pursuing/ applying to a 7 or 8 year BS/MD program. For the BS portion of it, some schools offer a wide variety of majors. Is an engineering course (such as Aeronautical Engineering) good for BS/MD?

Maybe biomedical or possibly chemical could fit in one that is an 8 year program (with 4 for the BS portion); others would probably have too many non-overlapping requirements. It is unlikely that any would fit in a 7 year program (with 3 for the BS portion).

Also, BS/MD programs typically require earning a college GPA and MCAT score high enough to be admissible to medical school the regular way (although they would skip the lengthy, expensive, and stressful application process).

If you trying to going into aeronautical engineering, why apply to a BS/MD program?

Most of the bachelors typically are restricted to the maths, hard sciences, humanities, and biomedical engineering.

And conversely, if you are in a guaranteed BS/MD program, I don’t see the point in studying engineering (which is a professional major designed to train engineers) unless you are just super passionate about the academic side of it.

An engineering degree is useful if you intend to do a lot of research. The best medical inventors are those who have both a medical and engineering degree. Once you become a practicing physician, there is little use for the engineering.

Becoming an engineer involves learning advanced math and how to ‘figure things out’. But medical school involves brute force memorization. Most of the engineers I know who went to med school hated the memorization aspect. And for that, majoring in Bio, chem, etc will make things easier.