<p>Okay, so I dont know what to major in for college. But I have to choose now because I can not switch back and forth between the college of arts and sciences and the school of engineering. </p>
<p>I want to do pre-med or pre-dental. I know GPA and MCAT/DAT scores rank above all. My question is....</p>
<p>I LIKE BOTH OF THESE MAJORS because I am good with science and math. </p>
<p>A) BUT IS CHEMICAL ENGINEERING REALLY THAT HARD TO GET A HIGH GPA IN? SHOULD I JUST TAKE THE EASIER (AND MORE SECURE) ROUTE OF STUDYING STRAIGHT UP CHEM AND GETTING A HIGHER GPA? </p>
<p>B) Also, On a side note What about other engineering majors like bioengineering or biomolecular?</p>
<p>could someone with experience please answer questions A and B for me?</p>
<p>Thank you so much :)</p>
<p>IMO, the hardest majors at most colleges are in engineering; perhaps architecture is equally time consuming. Sure, ChemE may be a LITTLE lighter than EECS, but that’s just splitting hairs.</p>
<p>But major in what you prefer. Just know that Engineers have little room in their schedule for electives, should you be so inclined.</p>
<p>SDN not enough for you? ;)</p>
<p>*Just know that Engineers have little room in their schedule for electives, should you be so inclined. *</p>
<p>Is the concern about the lack of electives or possibly the difficulty of including all pre-req req’ts…such as the humanity ones at USC? (BTW…do any other med schools have USC-like humanities req’ts?)</p>
<p>OMG Curm - you are still reading about pre-reqs? Curm!</p>
<p>“IMO, the hardest majors at most colleges are in engineering”</p>
<p>-Agree.</p>
<p>Ellen, Gosh, no!! This was just exercize of my google skillz for mom2ck. Anyway. I gotta keep 'em my mad skillz at the ready for the next bottleneck for my kid - residency apps. :eek: (Hmmmm. Where did I leave that almost full vial of horse tranquilizers? And what is the proper dosage for an induced coma? )</p>
<p>Frankly, there is a great advantage for Engineering vs Chemistry…if you are NOT planning to go to Med. School. It is JOB market.</p>
<p>Timely post bout JHU, curm.</p>
<p>D2 has the humanities/social sciences, math, writing, computer skills, etc covered already, and she’s taking Biochem in the spring but without the lab!</p>
<p>(State med school requires biochem, but not biochem lab. Gosh I wish all these med schools would make up their collective minds about what they want. It would make everyone’s life so much easier!)</p>
<p>Alas! The tragedy of it all–to be kept out of JHU all for want of a lab credit. ;-)</p>
<p>WOWMom. Check and see if it’s the same for this year at JHU. That pdf is next year’s pre-req’s.</p>
<p>D2 will be apply for admission for 2013 so the new requirements will apply to her. (She’s currently a junior, but won’t take her MCAT until fall 2011 and will apply during a glide year after graduation.)</p>
<p>As for D2 actually applying to JHU—I’m waiting to see what her MCAT score look like before I start ponying up application fees. (Trust but verify…)</p>
<p>Okay well here is the situation. I LOVE BOTH SCIENCE AND MATH. SO I WILL PLEASED WITH EITHER SUBJECT. HOWever, WHICH is the more logical major to pursue medschool/dental school with? </p>
<p>Chemical Engineering or Chemistry?
Or another major?</p>
<p>wud engineering be too tough a major to get a high GPA and therefore It is not logical to take ChemE with a premed plan? </p>
<p>thanks for ur time guys</p>
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<p>WHICHever you like best. On a % basis, music majors have the highest rate of acceptance to med school. I think philosophy majors are next. Physical science majors are a dime-a-dozen as my dad used to say.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>At my son’s school, the Classics dept boasts a 100% acceptance rate for med school and law school applicants. LOL Don’t know how many Classics majors have applied to either type of school…but, I found that stat interesting.</p>
<p>As for the question about whether maintaining a high GPA is hard for a ChemE major. i think it might depend on the undergrad school. If it’s a school where engineering majors (even the strong students) struggle to maintain a 3.5 GPA, then that wouldn’t be a school to major in engineering as a pre-med major.</p>
<p>My son is ChemE and pre-med. He has a 4.0 so far. So, it is possible to have a high GPA and be a ChemE major.</p>
<p>Why study engineering if you already know that you want to be a doctor? It doesn’t help you towards your goal at all. You’ll take a bunch of classes on stuff totally not relevant to being a doctor and be graded more harshly on it compared to other majors.</p>
<p>With engineering, this sort of thing is even more bizarre because it isn’t like the courses you would be taking would be that intellectually interesting. In an engineering program, you spend a fair amount of time learning the details behind technologies, which doesn’t really have the same sort of universal appeal as learning music or philosophy or literature or physics.</p>
<p>This was just exercize of my google skillz for mom2ck.</p>
<p>And, I am most appreciative!! Thanks Curmy!!! :)</p>
<p>JHU</p>
<p>3.
HUMANITIES, SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
The study of the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, is an essential foundation for the study and practice of medicine (24 semester hours). Please see B. Communication Skills under Additional Requirements, below.
These disciplines foster broad understanding of humankind and the increasingly diverse cultural and social environment of our world.</p>
<p>But, I didn’t see whether AP classes can be used for some of these HSB requirements. USC won’t let you, but I don’t know about JHU</p>
<p>*Why study engineering if you already know that you want to be a doctor? It doesn’t help you towards your goal at all. You’ll take a bunch of classes on stuff totally not relevant to being a doctor and be graded more harshly on it compared to other majors.</p>
<p>With engineering, this sort of thing is even more bizarre because it isn’t like the courses you would be taking would be that intellectually interesting. In an engineering program, you spend a fair amount of time learning the details behind technologies, which doesn’t really have the same sort of universal appeal as learning music or philosophy or literature or physics.
*</p>
<p>I can see why it may seem odd for a ChemE major to be pre-med, but I have 2 nephews and a son who are ChemE and pre-med. Since I know little/nothing about being ChemE, I have no idea of how much/little it will apply to being a doctor. anyone know?</p>
<p>The requirements for medical school are only a couple of introductory science classes so any course of study you choose will be not that relevant to becoming a doctor. To me it seems that if you know that you want to be a doctor, you’d pick a major that you would earn the best grades in. </p>
<p>That’s the way to maximize your chances to admission into medical school, because really, any other subject is unlike practicing medicine. To maximize your GPA, you’d ideally like to pick a major that 1) traditionally isn’t graded very hard and/or 2) is interesting to you.</p>
<p>Engineering definitely isn’t 1) and I fail to see how it could be 2) if you already know that you want to pursue another trade. I just fail to see the universal intellectual appeal of, say, manufacturing and designing integrated circuits.</p>
<p>So then an important question i have is. Statistically speaking, Which majors share the most overlapping courses with Pre-med/ pre dental pre reqs? :)</p>