<p>I'm a senior in HS currently applying to colleges. I'm interested in engineering, but I also have an interest in medicine. From what I've been reading on these forums and elsewhere it seems as if GPA and MCAT scores are the two things that get the biggest weightage in the med school admissions process.</p>
<p>I want to major in biomedical engineering, but it seems like it's very difficult to maintain a high GPA in this major. For me, this is a problem because I'm not yet 100% certain that I want to be a doctor. If I decide that I want to be an engineer or if I want to go into business in the middle of college, I'll have a fallback option with engineering. If I major in something "easier" aka non-engineering science and I decide not to go into medicine, I'll very likely get stuck being a lab tech or something similar. </p>
<p>What should I do? I know I'll be happy as a BME major, but I'm not quite sure about the doctor part yet. I'm afraid that if I do decide that medicine is for me, I'll be stuck with a lower GPA than the other pre meds who have cherry-picked the classes with easier grading and more lenient professors than me, the BME major, who worked his butt off in rigorous courses only to be rewarded with a lower GPA. </p>
<p>Advice?</p>