<p>Hey guys, I was wondering how selective the college of engineering at BU is?</p>
<p>For biomedical engineering, since BU is most known for BME, it’s very hard to get into the program (I got in because of my essay and love of engineering). It really depends on your overall stats (which means, grades aren’t everything but they are still important.)</p>
<p>what were your stats? I’m applying for BME.</p>
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<p>Wow, I can’t even remember my stats anymore. I would have to say somewhere in the high 600’s and low 700’s for the SATs. And for the ACT I got a 29. My grades were average (mostly B’s and some A’s if I liked the class and then one C every year in something) but I took AP Physics, AP Bio, and AP History (And AP Spanish for one year but I dropped that my senior year. Another random blurb, I was in chorus, if that helps and in human bio senior year.). I was in a C++ programming course my senior year and ridiculously into robotics and stage crew. I guess each college accepts completely different. Kids that got better grades than me were rejected, even when they showed a lot of interest in BU. I showed nearly none other than one visit to see the campus. -shrugs- I love BU now, but before… Wow I hated it.
Either way, engineering program, hard as hell, but by the facts we have better facilities than even MIT. Work hard, do what you love, and you’ll get into whatever you want.</p>
<p>PS. Sorry for the delay I was working on my projects in my classes.
PPS. If you even doubt by 1% that engineering might not be for you… Don’t go into it. I’ve already seen too many people drop out because it wasn’t for them.</p>
<p>Thank for the info. I really want to do BME so I don’t think that will be an issue. I hope I get in. I just switched my first choice college from CAS to COE with BME as my first choice rather than neuroscience at CAS. I think I have as good a chance as any but then again US News ranked BU as 10th in the country for BME so it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. I probably have a better chance here than at Johns Hopkins at least.</p>
<p>Um, just an update. US News rankings have been inaccurate due to the way they rank colleges. Not many people know about exactly how they rate, but they rate mostly by graduation rate and a lot of of methods that can skew the rankings significantly. What I can tell you is this is how employer’s see colleges (talked to my boss about this too). There are only 3 sections.
AMAZING Schools: Harvey Mudd, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale… essentially the Ivies that everybody can name. You’re in, your research and internships only add.
Good School: Okay these would include stuff like BU, John Hopkins, RPI and Duke all in the same level. Because they’re all in the same level, what matters really is how much work you put into your college, for example research and internships, and your college name gives you a head start, but all these colleges are seen as the same because most employers really don’t know the “rankings”.
Average Schools: State universities and so on. Your employment is entirely based on WHAT you did in college, the name won’t help you that much.</p>
<p>So, remember, go for the college you love, your employer a lot of the time, can only separate the names somewhat. What matters is what you do with the place you choose.</p>