<p>Do you guys recommend Electrical Communications, Signal Processing and Control Engineering OR Electrical/Computer Engineering as options for PreMed majors?</p>
<p>Any experience with this kind of an endeavor would be helpful...I know that to stand a chance for top 10 med schools you need like 3.8+ gpa in everything and like 36+ MCAT (with research, volunteering etc..).</p>
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I know that to stand a chance for top 10 med schools you need like 3.8+ gpa in everything and like 36+ MCAT (with research, volunteering etc..).
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<p>u r wrong.......</p>
<p>Why? how am I wrong?</p>
<p>You can have lower stats and still get into those schools. At the same time you can have higher stats and get into no schools.</p>
<p>Right...but has anyone done EE/ECE in undergrad and then gone to a top med school? anyone on here?</p>
<p>You do realize any med school is good. Its not anything like college, name doesn't matter nearly as much only for research and some residency spots it might give you the upper hand.</p>
<p>Okay...I plan on being a cardiologist (I know you've heard that before)...does prestige matter for good residencies in invasive cardiology?</p>
<p>Yes, unfortunately prestige matters when residency application time comes around. If you want a prestigious residency, then the med school you attend does count. For invasive cardiology you would be seeking a top internal medicine residency to set you up to be competitive for a fellowship.</p>
<p>I hope you realize it is extremely difficult to get a 3.8 in EE.</p>
<p>EE is probobly considered one of if not the hardest engineering major</p>
<p>IS101,</p>
<p>There are a couple questions regarding your future plans - you have answered many of them already, but just for general reference:</p>
<p>1.) Do you plan on entering a highly elective specialty - plastics, etc.? In this case, you need a prestigious residency. For that, you need a prestigious medical school.</p>
<p>2.) Do you plan on entering academic medicine - holding a post as a faculty member at a medical school? In this case, too, prestige matters.</p>
<p>3.) Do you plan on entering a specialty that is so competitive that while you don't need a "good" residency, any residency at all in that field is hard to get? In that case, too, prestige of medical school matters.</p>
<p>However, very few medical students actually fall into any of these fields. Most people want to be private practice clinicians, and very few specialities are competitive enough to fall into category 3.</p>
<p>However, I suspect that invasive cardiology might be one of them. I'm not sure (the most famous ones are dermatology and radiology).</p>
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Right...but has anyone done EE/ECE in undergrad and then gone to a top med school? anyone on here?
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<p>I don't know that there is anybody here who has done it. But there certainly are people who have done it.</p>
<p>For example, here is a guy who got his MD/PhD, where his MD was completed at Harvard Medical School, and his PhD was completed in Electrical Engineering at MIT. Granted, his undergrad degree was in Applied Math (not EE), but still, to complete a PhD in EE at MIT is certainly no walk in the park. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Esanger/%5B/url%5D">http://www.stanford.edu/~sanger/</a></p>
<p>You can see the list of recent MD/PhD's from Harvard. A significant number of them completed their PhD's not at Harvard, but at MIT (by taking advantage of the close ties between Harvard and MIt). You can see that some of them completed their PhD's in EE at MIT. It does make sense, as MIT is a better engineering school than Harvard is. If you're going to get a PhD in engineering, it might as well be at MIT. </p>
<p>A friend's youngest son who is currently doing an ophthalmology residency originally received an undergraduate engineering degree from Tufts and went on to their med school.</p>
<p>FWIW, medical schools like interesting backgrounds. My personal physician -- who did his residency at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, has a degree in Music Composition from Brown. In other words, as long as you fulfill the prerequisites, dont worry about it select the option/major that interests you the most.</p>
<p>True, I really want to follow my interests and go into EE/ECE/BME etc...BUT: med school's don't care..</p>
<p>Harvard Med School admits have a 3.8 average gpa! That is what keeps their med school's rank at number 1...so they could care less if I have a 3.5 in engineering which is more than equivalent to someone's 4.0 in English....</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>I can personally promise you that HMS doesn't just follow the numbers - just as being considerably above their averages doesn't mean I got in, being a little below it isn't an automatic rejection. Plus, don't forget that the averages are averages. They balance out. Half the kids (roughly) are below the mean.</p>
<p>Look, med schools admit majors in very nearly the exact percentages they apply in. Your major doesn't matter. This seems to include GPA, MCAT score, everything.</p>
<p>Does Duke have an ECE/BME double major with premed?</p>
<p>Basically, I need a good undergrad school with a light engineering program.</p>
<p>I graduated from Michigan with a BSEE with a 3.65 GPA and a 3.88 in my major (EE)</p>
<p>I just graduated with my Masters in EE with a 4.00</p>
<p>I'm going into my 2nd Masters at Michigan in Biomedical Engineering and after that will apply for a MD/PHD program</p>
<p>I am living proof that you can obtain good stats as an EE, I even did so at a top 5 Engineering University</p>
<p>Wait you got a 3.65 in your premed classes and a 3.88 in your EE classes?
Wow...if that's so then that's impressive...THANKS</p>
<p>Yes but I haven't completed all of my prereqs yet but I will need to in order to finish my BME Masters</p>
<p>I found a sample curriculum:
<a href="http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrads/ee_premed.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.ee.duke.edu/undergrads/ee_premed.php</a></p>
<p>Is this considered hard?:
I mean...I take 8-9 classes a day in high school 6 APs among other tough classes, but am completely underestimating this by a lot?</p>