<p>I'm about to enter my senior year of high school and already have my schedule. Recently I've decided I want to go into biomedical engineering (after I chose my classes and recieved my schedule). As of now, I'm taking anatomy as my science. But I was contemplating whether I should see if I would be able to change it to physics or basic engineering principles. How important is it for me to have taken a physics/ engineering course before entering college for BME? Is anatomy even used in BME?
It may be difficult to change my schedule but I'm willing to try if it's important for me to.
(I am a math and science person so I don't think if find physics difficult)</p>
<p>Anatomy may be used but won’t be nearly as important as physics. Most engineering schools don’t like to see applicants who had the option of taking calculus and/or physics but didn’t.</p>
<p>Engineering is a very popular major amongst incoming freshmen and BME is especially popular for premeds. As a result, admission is very competitive. By taking anatomy you are doing yourself a disservice. Physics (especially ap) would show colleges you aren’t afraid of rigor. Additionally, seeing the material once already would ease the transition to calculus based physics (significantly much more difficult than high school physics).</p>
<p>As for the question is anatomy used, it depends on the school; however, many of my college buddies have noted that anatomy was not used very much. It was useful to quickly refer to things; but not much more than that. </p>