<p>Next year i will be a college freshman and my major is biomedical engineering and i dont want to switch it. I want to go to medical school after college so obviously im going to need a high gpa. From what i read on college discussion and other sources the state of engineering in colleges is depressing. Kids are working extremely hard and still pulling off 3.0s and lower. What exactly do people need to get a 3.5 in engineering?</p>
<p>caffeine and cocaine</p>
<p>cocaine!! you'll be wasted for life! Go with caffiene it works for me.</p>
<p>Motivation, hard work, time management? It's not that hard. I wish I could say I thought it would be easier being a regular bio-premed kid but they are competitive as ****, so I wouldn't expect much slack from med schools. </p>
<p>Engineering definitely isn't depressing, though - that's a misleading title, haha. I was expected someone moping around about how they are in engineering and don't like it.</p>
<p>A kick in the butt every week will keep you motivated and doing well.</p>
<p>well if your roomate dies you get a 4.0</p>
<p>Why are you set on engineering if you are a premed? Your major is pretty much irrelevant, as long as you ace the core science and math requirements.</p>
<p>If you are planning on being a researcher(MD/PhD), you will do the advanced training necessary while in grad school. Or as a post-doc fellow.</p>
<p>Why not have some fun? Orgo is tough enough without having to take all of the engineering with it.</p>
<p>Orgo I (never took II) is no where nearly as hard as some of my engineering classes.</p>
<p>Go to a school where you are far above average. That makes maintain a 3.5 GPA far less work.</p>
<p>What Mr Payne says may have some merit. If there is a grading curve, you don't have to know it all...you just have to be better than everybody else. That said, I don't think engineering will be easy anywhere.</p>
<p>I sometimes go to the engineering building late at night to finish homework. And the place is full of seniors. They sometimes stay up all night. </p>
<p>I would recommend going to a small, close-knit, selective type school. It's MUCH easier to stay motivated and put a lot of time into studying and school work as opposed to going to a large, top party school.</p>
<p>Well i personally think that the key to motivation is realizing that its up to you....so motivation shouldnt really corolate to how big or small the school is...</p>
<p>engineering is not much harder than regular bio-premed. From my experience it's the converse that's true. </p>
<p>Personally, understanding how electronic circuit works is way easier than memorizing the details of pentosephosphate cycle.</p>
<p>Engineering isn't worth it just for pre-med. Trust me, do something you like. If you truly like Engineering, you will do well.</p>
<p>I second going to a school where you are way above average so you are at the top of the curve and will have personal relationships with professors so they can write you rec. letters, have natural smarts, have developed very good study skills, and know how to suck up to professors!</p>
<p>But, it doesn't make much sense to do engineering before medical school, if GPA is a big requirement for getting in.</p>
<p>"well if your roomate dies you get a 4.0" - fact.</p>
<p>Try to work in teams.</p>
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engineering is not much harder than regular bio-premed. From my experience it's the converse that's true. </p>
<p>Personally, understanding how electronic circuit works is way easier than memorizing the details of pentosephosphate cycle.
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<p>Yeah, but you can also complete the premed requirements while in a creampuff major. In fact, I suspect that this is the best strategy towards getting into med-school - to major in whatever happens to be easy at your school.</p>
<p>however if you change your mind you have a horrible fallback</p>
<p>That's the tradeoff of engineering. You have to put up with a lot of pain in return for a good backup career.</p>