<p>I pretty much suck at math. I got placed into mathematics 115 - one semester of precalc which is below avg. for engineers. Do you guys think it would be smart to major in biomed engineering. I love biology, but majoring in biology seems like a dead end. Any advice at all will be appreciated! I feel like I know biomed isn't the right choice for me even though for some odd reason I keep gravitating towards it - but I just really need somone else to tell me. Haha. Thanks!</p>
<p>Why not post the question about BME in Engineering majors forum? From what I gather, jobs for BME Undergrads are few and far between. One needs to get an MS in BME.</p>
<p>I know many kids who got placed into 115, it’s not ideal but its certainly not that big a deal. You’ll be one semester behind and you’ll need to take calc 2 in the summer, which is probably one of the hardest classes at rutgers and many people do it so i wouldnt worry about that. The only real problem is that many people fail Calc 1 and 2 at rutgers, if you’re already behind you really can’t afford to do that. On top of that I’ve heard that 115 doesn’t get you that prepared for 151, so you have to try hard but it’s certainly doable.</p>
<p>I actually remember getting placed into 115, but then took the final and placed out into 151, but didn’t end up doing so great in 152 and ended up taking that in the summer. Thinking back I thought of it as a huge deal about taking summer classes, but little did I know that it has a lot of benefits.</p>
<p>In the summer classes first off, they are ‘generally’ easier. Classes are smaller and a lot of TA’s tend to omit much more the useless topics in the curriculum. For 152, it was a lot easier than the ones ran during the year semester because the finals in the summer terms are usually written by the professor/TA themselves. In a year-long version for any big class at Rutgers, the finals tend to be written by a ‘class-department’ heads who ‘try’ their best to make the final compatible with the many sections, but there’s always that section that some professor’s don’t end up teaching or put much emphasis on, regardless if they taught everything amazing. The only way to really be sure of everything in the course would be to take the section that the department-head is teaching. In past years though, the department head was notorious for giving out really hard exams, but with a generous curve. The problem with that is that you wouldn’t know what the curve is so you’d be in panic mode for a good couple of days until you get your exam.</p>
<p>In terms of the outlook on BME though, the BEGINNING will be very math-ly. This will actually go for every engineering major because of the 4 semesters of Physics and Statics. For what the Physics that engineers have to take, it’s Analytic Physics, which is a little more math based than theory. For your case though, you will take a much slower paced Physics for your first year or semester (can’t remember too vividly) because of the lack of Calc. I hear a lot of complaints about this class, people saying that it’s just way too much theory and a lot of the problems are a little longer because of the lack of shortcuts that Calc provides.</p>
<p>Statics is a class required for every engineer, is all about solving for equations, which can get very extraneous if you haven’t taken Intro to Linear Algebra. And then on top of that, I hear a good portion of Intro to BME is Statics with body parts. Later down the road though depending upon if you’re going into the Pre-Med track, it will get more science-y.</p>
<p>But with all this said and if it sounds really daunting, nothing is impossible! I can’t stress to you enough that you make sure you really do all of your homework (Without cheating in terms of using an answer key! this is the BIGGEST downfall to any class. Doing this, you already break down the foundations for what you need to learn in the class.) and surround yourself in a really studious social environment so that way studying is a lot easier and a little more fun with the late night jokes and all. I also can’t stress enough on going to office hours just as much as possible as this will help you clarify a lot of points that the teachers are looking for and builds a better relations/respect for the faculty.</p>