<p>I have to decide within the next few days, or at least before the end of this month. I am still thinking, but have not decided if Wash U is the right college for me.. I want to do a pre-med thing, but dont know if I can do it with a BME major and also a science minor all in 4 or 4 1/2 years? It the $$$ things and would like to tell my parents that I could do it all in 4 ½ years. Should I forget about the minor? Your perspectives on this will be much appreciated. Thanks..</p>
<p>It is most definitely possible, and many BME majors actually do that.</p>
<p>Many? Are you sure "many" graduated in four years with another none related minor? Do you know how many credits are taken each semester? How they can manage their schedule?</p>
<p>Yes, BMEs can easily double MAJOR in Biology/ ChemE/Chemistry in 4 years due to the substantial overlap in classes. Minors have a lot fewer reqs and are definitely manageable</p>
<p>How "easily" purple? Don't forget premeds already have at least 15 required credits each semester, and I don't know many people taking more than 20. Look at the graduation rate in four years, how many of those have a second major? It can be done, but it's not that easily, needs a lot of effort.</p>
<p>It is pretty easy...you are looking at maybe 18/19 units a semester if you are BME, which is about as much you would take without the second major anyway. So the differential in units really isint that high. maybe (+/- 3)</p>
<p>18/19 units is a lot at one time, especially if you want to keep your GPA up. Most students take 15. You cannot take orgo with 18 units and stay sane/hope to get above a C in any of your classes.</p>
<p>On the contrary, you most definitely can. You just need to know how to manage your time.</p>
<p>being pre-med bme is a risk that alot of freshman should weigh. Most people I feel are bme and then become premed and alot of pre-med bme's drop out cause they don't want to take the grade drop (BME 140 is hard... very hard).</p>
<p>most bme's take orgo over the summer after freshman year. especially since washu orgo is pretty intense. bme/bio would be tough i think cause other than intro no classes really over lap and bme requires 100 core credits and bio required 30/60 depending on what you want to do. </p>
<p>For me I'm trying for a psych/econ double minor on top of my bme major and that means 18 credits every semester except for junior year which is Quantitative Physiology, which is as bad as orgo in terms of difficulty so i'm taking only 15 credits. each minor required 15 credits each major 30 on average. you have to take a specific number of "enginnering classes" that total up to 45 credits on top of the intro bio/chem/physics which is another 35 plus techinical writing, engineering ethics and other assorted classes. So there is alot to do. BME is a lot of work. doing a double on top of that is even harder.</p>