<p>What you might have to decide now is whether or not you want to pursue engineering as an undergraduate. </p>
<p>Engineering is one of the professions which you can enter after getting an undergraduate degree. As a result, engineering programs are generally more rigorous than liberal arts programs and have many more requirements. It is very difficult to transfer into an engineering program because if you didn’t plan on it from the beginning, there is a good chance that you won’t have the right prerequisite classes and it’s likely that you will be unable to complete the degree in 4 years. </p>
<p>I think that the summer before your senior year is an excellent time to do some summer program that exposes you to engineering that will help you assess whether you think you might like it. </p>
<p>You’re not necessarily making an irrevocable decision on your career path. Life is long, and people change their mind. What you are doing is figuring out if you want to start the engineering path. </p>
<p>It is possible to go to medical school after getting an engineering degree if you fulfilled the pre-med prereqs, many of which overlap with engineering, but it’s kind of a hard way to go because it’s hard to get a medical school worthy GPA as an engineer, and they don’t give you extra credit for taking a rigorous curriculum. They actually like humanities and social science degrees because being a physician is about people more than it is about science. </p>
<p>BeanTownGirl has it exactly right with BME. </p>
<p>There are a number of schools with seamless transitions between the engineering and arts/science, meaning that engineering majors are just another major and you get admitted to the school. The one’s I can think of off the top of my head are MIT, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Rochester and Case Western. I’m sure there are more, but there are others like most state schools, Northwestern, Cornell, Princeton, Penn, and such where you have to be admitted specifically into the engineering school and it may or may not be easy to change your mind depending on your GPA.</p>