<p>Hey all, my d is undecided about a premed or engineering future...</p>
<p>If she applys and makes CoE, will she be able to pursue a medical future? Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Yes. You can major in anything and still do premed. Just take a year of bio, gen chem, organic chem, and physics on top of whatever the engineering major requires.</p>
<p>Thanks.
How long will that last, and what would be the next step toward her medical career?</p>
<p>She would be taking those courses alongside her engineering courses. I'm pretty sure engineering requires chem and physics anyway so it's really only 2 extra courses. At the same time, she'll want to do extracurriculars (volunteering, research, clinical experience, etc.) and eventually apply to med school in her senior year of college (if she plans to directly matriculate in med school after graduating from college).</p>
<p>Oh yea, she'll have to take the MCAT before applying. This is usually done in the summer after sophomore year or sometime during the junior year.</p>
<p>you can major in anything and be premed.</p>
<p>Biological Engineering includes most of the prerequisites, but she would have to take more chemistry than the BE major requires...a total of three additional classes (Second semester general chemistry, second semester organic chemistry, and organic chemistry lab). But these courses count as upper level technical electives, so it's really not adding more classes, just a little less flexibility in the curriculum. This happens to be what I did, and I'd estimate about a quarter of bioengineers at cornell are premedical students.</p>
<p>I have also met a couple premedical mechanical engineers, but it's harder to fit everything in that way. Chemical enegineering also fulfills most of the prerequisites, but I'd recommend it only if she really excells in chemistry since the ChemE major requires honors chemistry courses.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer.
Just for confirmation- Biological Engineering is @ CoE correct?</p>