<p>You might secretly have the 'mega engineering genius brain' in that skull of yours.
And you just don't know it yet.</p>
<p>Besides, a low GPA won't kill you if everyone else (we hope) understands the difficulty of the major.</p>
<p>So I was browsing the old archives about engineering, and my favorite quote popped up</p>
<p>"In college, you will have to study some nights while your friends get to go out and kick it. Engineering is usually a set curriculum for 4 or 5 years that requires you to stay on a certain track. While your poly-sci or english major friends might have to take classes like Western Civ., Poetry 101, and Basket Weaving, you will have to take Circuits, Thermodynamics, Engineeing Physics, Fluid Mechanics, etc. Just a TAD bit more challenging. And when you graduate, your GPA (if you're lucky) will be just above a 3.0 (very good for engineering), more than likely it will be in the high 2's; while your Liberal Arts buddies will have GPA's of 3.5 and better.</p>
<p>However, the flip side to that is this (especially in this current economy). 7 out of 10 college gradutes did not find employment in 2003. The job market is rough. However, with engineering you are almost always GUARANTEED a job, and one with a decent starting salary at that. Your Liberal Arts friends will struggle to find jobs that pay somewhere around $25 to $30,000 a year, whereas you the engineering grad will start in the mid 40's with ease.
--BurningSands
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<p>Yay! Someone found BurningSand's posts. :) He's right on (did architectural engineering, by the way). </p>
<p>Yes, engineering usually does deflate grades. Many firms don't care what your GPA is, so long as you graduated from a respectable school. GPA will matter more at less prestigous schools, but it's usually not an issue.</p>
<p>DO NOT do engineering as a way to get into med school. You will cream your GPA, and med school admissions will add about 0.1 to your GPA for the engin. In reality, they should probably add 0.4 to align the medians with that of liberal arts; if they correct for the work, you're looking at adding about 0.5 to 0.6. Also, try taking organic chemistry while taking EE, materials science, thermo, differential equations, and a few other classes... and being graded against people who take yoga, beginning foreign language, and their fine arts electives.</p>
<p>As i said before the only engineering worth doing for med school is biomed. because of the great preparation for the rigors of med school. If you can find the statistics you'll see that the biomed eng. majors have like a 68% acceptance rate which is higher then any other major. And for biomed you do a lot of work with m.d.'s and the like so it helps you with experience for med school. Want a high gpa don't do biomed of course but it is not a path to doom your chances at med school.</p>
<p>i am signed up for engineering in uva... i dontk now if i will get in.. but anyways, i was planning to transfer to some other major... ito prepare me for MCAts or medical school. i want to do psychiatry in medical schooll ... so i was thinking of transfering to do psychology perhaps? or is there some other major u recommend me doing.</p>
<p>the title of it says it all for biomed. you generally have a better preparation for med school from the medicine type courses you take. I am not sure it is the only good engineering field for med school but its better then most. I dont know how the low gpa offsets itself but it does. as long as you get a high mcat score and maintain a 3.2 or above in biomed you have just as good a chance as other people.</p>
<p>" <em>note to self: i a m s o F U C K E D</em> "</p>
<p>I couldn't have expressed my feelings better.</p>
<p>I'm hoping that my desire to attend a small LAC that offers engineering to be to my benefit. With MUCH smaller class sizes and a more personalized education I can't imagine that it wouldn't be easier to learn. Granted you'll have to work hard(more so then other majors) but isn't that why the degree is one of the few that you can get a decent job with right out of college??? </p>
<p>But getting 3.2+ in BME or any engineering major is pretty tough... =</p>
<p>Anovice:
If you plan on becoming a professional engineer, don't worry at all...
If you are pre-med or pre-law, then yeah... u a r e s o F U C K E D</p>
<p>Damn I'm a BME who might want to go to a law/business/medical school. I'll find something I love in any of the pro. schools but I don't want my GPA to be destroyed as a result of BME. Suggestions? I'm going to be at Hopkins, do you think the Medical schools will cut a hopkins bme some slack?</p>
<p>none, maybe bio but thats about it. bme gives you a very solid foundation for med school and the mcats. If you want high scores on everything try to find the easiest major you can, and excel at it. That wont necessarily help you get into med school unless you do well on the MCAT. A biomed is prepared well for the mcat as are most science majors. If your looking for the easiest way into medicine they your gonna suffer once you get there because medicine is not easy.</p>
<p>what about psychology? i want to be a psychiatrist... i dont know what the difference betweeen those two are, lol, but i am thinking about psychology. i know some science courses sare not included in the psychology curriculum. if u know what science is included, can u post them?</p>
<p>undergrad major if your pre-med doesn't matter so match- that's a pretty well-known fact, it's just science majors tend to do better, but not necesarily BME, bio or chem majors.</p>
<p>everything depends on how you present yourself on paper. With a gpa of over 3 and mcats that are 30 or above you will look pretty good. Then your essays and interviews will do the rest of the talking for you.
for the person asking about psych. it all depends on what school you go to for requirements. Either way as a pre-med you will do bio,chem,physics,orgo chem, and calc and sometimes a writing course.
You could be a puppetry major, if you do those courses then you can apply for med school.</p>
<p>it could be a stupid thing to ask at this point. i am applying to uva.. virginia colleges in general. how is the gpa calculated? same as high school? in my school, its 4,3,2,1 for A,b, .... respectively. is this how?</p>
<p>OK guys... I am an engineering major at Brown University and as far as GPA, classes, and social life goes nothing on this board is true... I have a 3.5, my classes are difficult but nothing that a person with good math and science skills cant handle, and I go out and party just as much as my liberal arts first... Although I must add that I just finished my first semester...</p>