<p>Would it be better to get a bachelor degree in engineering than the bachelor degree in life science as prerequisite for med school? If unable to maintain the competitive GPA and unable to get into med school, at least engineering gives you a choice to fall back on, a job nonetheless.</p>
<p>Engineering curricula are usually rather crowded and may be hard to fit the pre-med courses into (other than perhaps chemical or biomedical engineering). The large number of requirements may not be as conducive to the pre-med game of cherry-picking easy-A courses to boost one’s GPA as majors with fewer requirements are.</p>
<p>However, if you like solving design problems using principles from math and science, you may like engineering and find it to be a more suitable career than medicine.</p>
<p>If that’s your thinking then skip medicine because it isn’t right for you. </p>
<p>Not to say nobody who majors in engineering gets into med school, but its difficult. And you seem mistaken about what it takes to get into med school; its not just GPA but you need to have experience in the medical field, and preferably some research experience. You will have little free time to do these things outside of class if you are an engineering student. Nor, in trying, will you be a very strong engineering job applicant because you won’t have done the things like taking part in student projects in engineering or summer internships.</p>
<p>Here’s the bitter truth in life. You can’t keep all the doors open forever. Either decide you want to be an engineer and go 100% into it. Or decide you want to go to med school and throw everything into that. Try both and you’ll probably succeed at neither.</p>
<p>Many of those who try to do both major in biomedical engineering – but the job prospects for biomedical engineering at the bachelor’s degree level tend to be weaker than for most other types of engineering (though better than biology).</p>
<p>If thats the case, then do most people that get into med school are the ones that major in life science? Only about 30% of those get into med school leaving 70% in a homeless situation…</p>
<p>About half of applicants and matriculants to medical school are biology majors.
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