<p>For Columbia SEAS, what major would be most advantageous to a future medical student?
I've heard a lot of SEAS students go on to business school, law school and medical school. I know that medical schools favor strong GPAs as well. What engineering major would be most advantageous (in terms of curriculum and high GPA) for a future medical student and hopefully a doctor?</p>
<p>Thank you very much for all your responses!</p>
<p>Columbia engineering will be difficult to get a good gpa in. Do it only if you think are you are good at engineering and if you really like engineering. Other than that, major is not as important as a good gpa.</p>
<p>Fu has a “bio-engineering lite” called (
something I can’t seem to remember). I’m going to wager it is filled with pre-meds. </p>
<p>Edit: Well, I don’t see it. May have it confused with Penn SEAS. <a href=“http://engineering.columbia.edu/prospective-students[/url]”>http://engineering.columbia.edu/prospective-students</a></p>
<p>In general, Engineering at any college is probably the most difficult, rigorous major for future professionals, such as Law and Med.</p>
<p>Ya, but engineers also basically have a guarenteed job that pays 60k+ should med school/law school not work out. Honestly, if I were at any other school, I definately would have done engineering just to have that nice fall back job (plus I like math and science =D ).</p>
<p>However, if your looking solely at your major as something to enhance your chances at getting into medical school, consensus says just major in the thing that gets you the highest GPA. So, that probably is not any form of engineering.</p>
<p>If you go to Columbia and are determined you have pretty good chances of NOT failing to get into medicine.</p>
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<p>Exactly, students who are that smart (managing to get into an ivy league school) and who work hard, won’t have to fall back on their back-up career.</p>