<p>I’m dead set on attending grad school either to get a masters or phd in this field and I’m looking to get any and all information on it. I have a few questions but any random thoughts/advice/insight would be appreciated. Thanks</p>
<li><p>I’m a bio major, since my school has no engineering. Do you have an advantage/disadvantage if you don’t have UG engineering?</p></li>
<li><p>How competitive is admission to the top grad schools? I’m looking into Yale, Cornell, Georgia Tech, UFlorida, and others.</p></li>
<li><p>What is real world env. engineering like (day-to-day basis, different projects)? Who do you work for (consulting firms? government? industry? etc)</p></li>
<li><p>Is it like most engineering fields where jobs are only in certain places?</p></li>
<li><p>Hours/salary/lifestyle/how are promotions</p></li>
<li><p>What are some of the best subspecialties to go into?</p></li>
<li><p>Something that most people in the field could use improvement in (env. law, technical writing, bio, chem, any other topics)?</p></li>
<li><p>Anything else?</p></li>
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<p>1)I’m a bio major, since my school has no engineering. Do you have an advantage/disadvantage if you don’t have UG engineering?</p>
<p>For environmental engineering its actually not too hard to get into a grad enve program without doing engineering in undergrad. I was quite surprised actually. One of my TAs was from biochem and she did really well in her Environmental classes. I know of this other science student who came into environmental engineering for grad school and shes doing fine from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies guys-I’ve checked out most of the stuff online already, but I was hoping to get some personal experiences/stories either as students or from “real life” environmental engineers</p>