<p>Do you have to premed before Biomedical Engineering major?</p>
<p>I don’t think so: [Biomedical</a> Engineering (BS) | Office of Undergraduate Courses & Curricula](<a href=“Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards”>Undergraduate Courses, Curricula, and Academic Standards)</p>
<p>Pre med isn’t a major. BME is . I don’t really get the question</p>
<p>Pre-Med is a track that students follow to prepare for the MCAT and admissions into Medical School. Such as taking Physics I & II w/lab, Gen. Chemistry I & II w/ lab, Organic Chemistry I & II w/ lab, Calculus I & II, Gen. Biology I & II w/lab stuff like that. Bio-Medical Engineering is a major, that’s really difficult, and it’s not really typical for someone who’s on the Pre-Med track.</p>
<p>Lol I was just asking since I want to go into bme and I was wondering if I needed to premed before bme.</p>
<p>Definitely not. I mean premed is the suggested track for students wanting to enter medical school and biomedical engineering is engineering. Oh…now I see where your confusion originates…</p>
<p>Yeah… So premed and biomedical is not mandatory at all?</p>
<p>Huh? Well if you want to major in biomedical engineering then there’s a set of classes that you need to take. Sure some classes may overlap with premed but you determine your major.</p>
<p>BME and pre-med don’t necessarily go together, unless you want them to.</p>
<p>Like others have said, pre-med isn’t really a major. It’s more of a track. For example, you might want to major in BME with the ultimate goal of going to med school. Typically, you’d tell that to your course adviser during freshman year that way they can manipulate your schedule and ensure you take all the correct classes so you are prepared for the MCAT and meet all the requirements for med school. </p>
<p>With that said, you don’t have to do pre-med at all. You can just straight up major in BME . I’m not sure what “needing to premed before” really means, but if you have any more questions I’ll do my best to answer them. I’ve sat through countless presentations about this stuff.</p>
<p>Pre-Med isn’t a major, or anything that has to do with BME. Students who are on the Pre-Med track want to become Allopathic or Osteopathic doctors. BME is a major, Pre-Med is a track meaning you are preparing for Medical school admission. But the classes in the BME major program has a lot of classes that you’ll need to get into medical school though. Pre-Med isn’t a prerequisite for anything. It’s like an undergraduate students at what ever college saying he’s ‘Pre-Law’. He could be a Psychology major, he’s just taking classes required by Law schools for admission. That’s all. I’m guessing you don’t want to become a doctor, just an engineer. Just get Pre-Med out of your head because you’re not aiming to become a doctor. :)</p>
<p>The Pre-Med track is considered to be very difficult and many cannot handle it. The funny this is, it’s nothing compared to the BME track. As shown in my link.</p>
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<p>I took a tour of WPI’s BME building and it was insanely intimidating. Some of the equipment you work with as early as Freshman year is mind-boggling. It definitely made me re-think my choice in major. Though the average starting salary (or so they say) for BME undergrads after senior year is around $65,000. That’s if you can land a job.</p>
<p>My son started out as a BME major at UT-Austin. He is a smart kid (I’m not just saying that - I’m an engineer myself and couldn’t believe how he breezed through tough math classes), but BME was too much for him. In particular, the EE classes were brutal. He did get to do some research as a freshman, so that was cool. He has switched to applied math now, in the hopes of becoming an actuary (apparently a good field that pays well).</p>
<p>If BME is that tough, is BME w/ premed at a top uni a death wish for one who wants to maintain a social life and join clubs?</p>
<p>You take a lot of the same classes (if not all the same) classes for pre-med and bme. It would be tough to pull off all that you want to do, but I don’t know how smart you are/ how well you manage your time. But my guesses are it would be very difficult.</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks guys. I was just confused because I thought you had to take premed classes before going to biomed.</p>