<p>Several points are not clear about OP. If his S. wants to be an MD, why:
- going to engineering.<br>
- why to worry what undergrad he is attending?</p>
<p>For Med. school application, the most important are College GPA and MCAT score. The second most important is to show your interest in medicine by participating in certain EC’s. Name of UG is almost irrelevant. All pre-meds in every school including the lowest ranked have to work extremely hard to get their GPA over 3.5. They also have to work just as hard to prepare for MCAT (while taking challenging classes). Being super duper smart and way above average is describing every single pre-med in this country. Other will fall out, change thier professional goals. All of the above is much more for any engineering major, the hardest of all and definitely the hardest for getting GPA over 3.5.
Unless attitude is changed, I do not see how this plan can be successful. Being very smart simply does not cut it here. Need to have very good work ethic. If he wants to be just an engineer, the programs are very challenging everywhere and in addition, engineering companies usually hire locally, most do not care about big name schools.</p>
<p>I like that the same parents condemning the OP (who I also think is crazy) are the same ones who have 2000 posts on CC. Many of which are about how to improve their own kids. </p>
<p>Hypocrites.</p>
<p>^Very strange comment. I did not condemned anybody, just pointed out that the goal should be supported by a plan, in OP case plan contradict the goal. Second, I have never asked or complained about my child, nobody on CC could improve somebody else’s child. I thought that OP is asking for opinion, if it was just a rant, forget it. I cannot imagine that it was about improving his child. When one has a specific goal, one needs to develop a reasonable plan to accomplish it. Since my D. is pre-med and since my H. is an engineer and I have been in engineering for several years, l pointed out to flaws in his plan. Also strange that you are not offerring anything productive in your post #62, so the goal of post #62 is not clear.</p>
<p>“Oh, good grief. Don’t take us for fools! That $19K for the BME major was based off ONE person. Didn’t you see the (1) next to it? That doesn’t mean “BME’s make $19K.” It means 1 person reported, and who the heck knows what they did, where they went to work, and what their circumstances are. Maybe all the other BME’s went to med school or other graduate school. Silly to conclude anything off this.”</p>
<p>That is why I followed it up with, “I’ve been told by numerous people (who would know) that a Bachelors in BME is not sufficient. People who do well with that degree either go on to get a Masters or PHD, or they go to Med school.” Could you seriously not separate the sarcasm from the serious in that post?</p>