Calling all UVA BMEs!

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<p>I am an incoming freshman to UVA next year and I hope to get into the BME program in my sophomore year. </p>

<p>At this point, I have every intention of pursuing a pre-med track in conjunction with the BME major.</p>

<p>I am mainly hoping for a little input from anyone in the BME department or just anyone who knows anything about this type of track from personal experience or from observation.</p>

<p>QUESTIONS:
Are there a lot of extra courses to fulfill the pre-med req's?</p>

<p>How do BME students with a pre-med track usually fair (Both academically and socially)?</p>

<p>Are the pre-med advisers, as advertised on the website, efficient in helping to structuring a schedule to complete all the req's?</p>

<p>How extensive is the interaction between BMEs and the UVA hospital? Is the program really more of a part of the Med school than the Engi School (This interaction was a big selling point for me in choosing UVA for BME)?</p>

<p>Any input or help at all would be much appreciated! Thanks!</p>

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<p>See <a href=“http://www.bme.virginia.edu/downloads/2011_StudentGuide.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bme.virginia.edu/downloads/2011_StudentGuide.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>16% of my class (2010) are now in med school, including two others besides me here at UVa. Most others are in grad school – I haven’t seen stats regarding how many ultimately go to med school. </p>

<p>Go into SEAS because you want to make things – don’t go into BME because you want to go to med school.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the link! </p>

<p>I am personally fascinated with BME (tissue and organ engineering piqued my interests). I was mainly hoping to go to med school to become a research doctor in the BME field and if that did not work out, I would go to grad school instead. </p>

<p>I felt that just a Bio major would be too bland for me, and I would rather go BME at this point.</p>

<p>EDIT: what about the engineering curriculum makes it so much harder to maintain that high GPA than the other majors?</p>