I’m looking to be a biomedical engineer in the future and am a current junior in high school. I got a 34 on my ACT and am pretty overwhelmed by the college search process. Sometimes I feel like almost every college is thew same, just in different locations. Anyways, here’s a general list of schools I’m looking at:
University of Washington
University of Pennsylvania
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Kansas (in state)
Northeastern
University of California San Diego
Washington University St. Louis
University of Michigan
Any suggestions about these colleges or other colleges in the area for me?
Here’s a list of schools offering biomedical engineering. http://www.findengineeringschools.org/Search/Majors/biomedical.htm
You should be at least competitive with any of the universities on your list as well as the list I linked.
Have a look at Rose Hulman in Indiana. It’s not as popular as universities on the coasts, only because it’s not on one of the coasts, but it has one of the best reputations in the U.S. It should be close to a safety for you.
What was your math subscore?
So money is no object with all these oos colleges?
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Sometimes I feel like almost every college is thew same, just in different locations.
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In many ways that is true, particularly for big state schools. They’re big state schools…they have a lot of majors, they have a lot of profs, they have a lot of buildings, they have a lot of students, they often have big sports to watch and cheer for. They have the same mission…so they’re going to be VERY similar.
You have a LOT of OOS publics. How much will your family pay? A school like UCSD and UMich will be $55k. Will your parents pay for that? Why would they if they can pay a lot less for your instate option (if that’s affordable)
Have your parents run the NPCs on the websites of UCSD, UMich, WashU and NEU…and see if they’re happy with the results.
Why do you want to major in BioMedE? It’s not offered at many schools, it’s not a necessary major for that field of work, and it’s a limiting major (not very marketable). Have you considered MechE or ChemE with some biomedE courses to have a degree that will provide you more options. Grad school for biomedE will accept MechE and ChemE majors just as well as biomedE
My math subscore was a 34. Money is somewhat of an object, but not the biggest concern in the world (family income is around 110k for financial aid). I’ve certainly considered the mech engineering into biomed route, but it seems everyone has a different opinion on whether or not that is the correct option. It would probably make it cheaper, as I could look to more instate options.