<p>As the title implies, I am trying to get a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering while fulfilling the requirements for medical school. I know this is hard, but I believe that I can do it. Now the biggest problem that remains is which classes to take to fulfill both premed and engineering requirements. </p>
<p>This is the class list Ive come up with so far.</p>
<p>Fall Semester:
Math 1910
Freshman Writing Seminar
Tennis (Recreational)
Chem 2150
Engineering 1050
Intro to Computer Science (CS 1110)</p>
<p>Spring Semester:
Math 1920
Freshman Writing Seminar
Fencing
Chemistry 2080
Physics (Dont know which course to pick)</p>
<p>How does the course selection look? The main questions are:
1. Since I have to take 2 chemistry courses to fulfill the premed requirement and I got a 5 on AP Chem, should I take Chem 2090 or Chem 2150 during the fall semester?
2. Do I need to take physics for either engineering or premed during my first year? If so, which one should I take? I took a semester of physics at the local community college, but I do not have any further physics experience.
3. Should I be taking a biology class during the first year?
4. Does anyone know where I can find a list of premed requirements that I will need to fulfill while I am pursuing my engineering degree?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your time. I wish i could answer these questions myself, but I really am quite clueless since my case is not that common and I want to get off on a strong start in college.</p>
<p>There are no premed requirements that Cornell requires. For premed requirements, look at the med schools you are looking to apply to. Those are the requirements you’ll have to fulfill.</p>
<p>I’m not 100% sure, but I hear a lot of med schools do not accept AP credit as part of fulfilling their requirements. You may have to either retake basic courses or take more advance courses.</p>
You need to take Physics if you only have 1 semester of physics. A lot of people get rid of their physics requirement ASAP, esp for ECE’s. Most of them will take ECE 2100 in the spring, which doesn’t seem like what you are doing. You may feel a little bit left behind :)</p>
<p>the courses not covered in the ece curriculum are</p>
<p>2 semesters bio, 3 semesters chemistry(beyond the one already in the ece curriculum), one extra advanced bio course maybe (according to the premed reccomendations above, and my knowledge of the ece curriculum as an ece major)</p>
<p>these can be used to fulfill your 3 outside ece technical electives and 2 advisor approved electives</p>
<p>Difficult but not impossible.</p>
<p>as to your schedule first semester looks fine, you will need to take some 5 course semesters, don’t your first semester though, for your second semester, you need an engri.</p>
<p>As for physics see if your cc physics transfers hopefully it does, if it doesn’t transfer you will really need to take physics 1112 or you’ll be delaying the physics sequence too long for the engineering part of your degree imo, if it does transfer you have more options. If you aren’t willing to take a 5 course semester yet you could wait till the fall to take 2213, if you are you can then take 2213 that semester, you won’t technically have the math prerec as you would be taking the math prerec that semester, but it doesn’t really matter, you don’t need to understand line and surface integrals to do the ones in 2213 since you set the problem up so everything is uniform so you just multiply the length of the line or surface area of the surface by the magnitude since the magnitude is the same at every point for the 2213 problems, now if you for some reason wanted to take the honors version that would be a different story</p>
<p>You may want to try to take either some of the math and science or some liberal studies courses somewhere during the summer after freshmen year.</p>
<p>Ok, I thought about it a bit more and below is my revision. Unfortunately, the semester physics course I took at my community college wont transfer even though I will probably try to take the CASE exam to get past the beginning physics course.</p>
<p>Um… Arent you missing an introduction to engineering course?
your 1110 is the programming requirement i think… I cant find the Intro to Computer Science course like you’ve listed in the courses of study. Double check that. </p>
<p>Are you referring to phy1112 as beginning physics?</p>
<p>transition to matlab can be taken concurrently with java1110. it says it’s not encouraged but eh… slong as you don’t confuse the languages it’s fine.</p>
<p>Have you considered liberal arts courses yet? don’t forget about planning those into your academic plan. 6 courses total means a class each semester… A lot of premed courses can satisfy your “technical electives” or “advisor approved electives” or whatever they’re called now but i think none of the “premed” courses are liberal arts distributions.</p>