Hi everyone. With finances, my visions of an undergraduate experience, close proximity to home, and a variety of other tangible/intangible factors in mind, I have chosen to pursue my undergraduate education at Yale-NUS College rather than UC Berkeley (please note that Yale-NUS college is NOT Yale University although both colleges have very close ties with each other). I am greatly interested in pursuing medicine but am simultaneously gravitated towards bio-engineering. Now, for medicine, it is an almost no brainer for me to attend Yale-NUS college as I have the opportunity to enter med-school at Duke-NUS (please note that as an international student, entering medical school in the US is almost impossible). However, when considering bio-engineering and entering this field for my graduate studies, I really want to pursue this higher education at the United Sates, primarily in higher tier institutions (ex: Stanford- dream). Do you think it will still be possible for me to be a competitive applicant for a graduate engineering program in the US despite having graduated from a liberal-arts college, Yale-NUS? I understand that pre-requisites must be filled and Yale-NUS allows its students to take supplementary courses at its neighboring university, NUS (NUS has a bio-engineering program). Or, was it foolish of me discard UC Berkeley for Yale-NUS? Any insight and advice will be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much for your time.
You’re fine for graduate school, and I’m not going to explain to a Yale admit what the “liberal arts” title means. You need to look it up and educate yourself.
If you fulfill the admissions requirements for the graduate program, and you have excellent grades, excellent GRE scores, excellent letters of recommendation, and a well-written statement of purpose, there is no reason to believe that you will be rejected for admission simply because you have a “liberal arts” degree. What will matter are your overall GPA, your GPA in the courses related to the grad program, the GRE score, the letters of recommendation, your statement of purpose, and any research, volunteer, work, or publications related to the proposed field of graduate study.