<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Thanks for everyone who gave me tips on whether or not I should continue on the biomedical engineering track. I really appreciated your comments and have decided to pursue biomedical engineering as my major...i truly love it and I feel that it would be able to do splendidly in this major. </p>
<p>However, now about a thousand other problems have come up. First is that I have about 50 AP credits (literally...no joke). That basically means that I can finish my undergraduate studies in about 2-2.5 years. Now I know that is absurdly quick. Plus, I want to go into medical school. Thus, I would have to take the MCAT as well before I graduate and apply. An alternative to that plan would be for me to do a BS/MD for Biomed. Engineering and get my masters in Biomed. in 3.5 years and then apply to med school. Would that help my chances for admission? And if so by how much. </p>
<p>By the way, I am currently doing UROP (I'm part of the MRC) and and planning on doing a study abroad program, as well as doing either internships or a summer abroad volunteering thing. That is just to give you guys perspective on some of the EC's that I plan on doing along with my courses. </p>
<p>SO...CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME OUT? IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? WHAT OTHER THINGS COULD I DO TO HELP ME IN MED SCHOOL ADMISSIONS?</p>
<p>THANKS</p>
<p>Just so you know, coming in with many AP credits doesn’t help very much in CoE. I highly doubt you’re going to be graduating in 2-2.5 years. If you have a bunch of dual enrollment credits, that might change things, but AP credits aren’t that useful.</p>
<p>The reason is mainly just because of prereqs, so if you’re feeling ambitious you can try to plan out your undergrad courses to see how long it will really take you.</p>
<p>Engineering for pre-med is probably not a good idea. Your gpa will likely be (significantly) lower than if you were in lsa.</p>
<p>No matter what your 50 credits are (even if every single credit is useful for CoE), if you are going to be doing UROP and study abroad there is no chance you will be graduating in under 3 years. Even under 4 is very doubtful considering the study abroad and UROP. </p>
<p>If all your credits are useful then you’re not going to find study abroad school which have useful classes by the time you could do one and academically the semester would be a waste. You’d be left with 4 academic semesters to do minimum (again, only if every single one of your 50 credits is useful, and I’m not even thinking about the premed requirements) 78 credits, which is 19.5 a semester. With UROP on top of that you will be doing a workload of more like 21 or 22 credits, every semester, including when you do your MDE. </p>
<p>Really, you shouldn’t be expecting to do it in less than 4 years. If you are desperate to get out as quickly as possible try to look through and plan your schedule. </p>
<p>Now, to get to your actual question. A masters will most likely be of no benefit to medical school. It might even have an opposite effect, you might be pigeonholing yourself to engineering which you don’t seem to want to do. </p>
<p>For medical school, dominate your chem and bio classes. Dominate your LSAT. Don’t waste your time with nonsense at the expense of those.</p>
<p>Sorry, when I said LSAT, I meant MCAT. Whatever, law school, med school, same thing.</p>
<p>yo I’m in MRC too!..I’m doing BME and am looking to go to medical school and I’m honestly gona not use most of my AP credits bc for one I’m in no rush to get out of undergrad…its gona be awesome…and second…BME is an extremely hard major so why not just try and ensure that you keep your GPA up…im sure you bossed up HS as most of us going to Michigan did but you gota remember that the competition is now kids just like you who were top of their class so its gona be much harder to get that 3.8+ GPA.</p>
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<p>gailees, just curious…</p>
<p>why the combination of BME/BBA/pre-med?
if you actually plan on completing all those it will most likely take more than 4 years</p>
<p>ummm several reasons…the BBA/premed is bc i want to eventually run my own succesful medical practice and the BBA is gona give me a lotta the tools to help me do so…the BME is bc I have a strong interest in research and really wana have the opportunity to at some point in my career conduct intensive research…i also feel like the BME degree offers me a lot of opportunity if I’m not ready to jump straight into med school after undergrad…$$$ I mean its just a rough plan for now but i eventually wana be an advisor to help facilitate a more efficient healthcare system in our country and I feel by participating in studies from all aspects of the medical field…business, research, practice, and being a patient myself…i will have the best preparation for that life aspiration…just an outline though…and I have no problem with finishing in 5 years…the BME and Premed classes go pretty hand in hand tho so its more of just a BME/BBA and makin sure i boss up the MCAT while maintaining a ridic GPA</p>
<p>If you plan on going to medical school, it’s definitely overkill to get a BBA and BSE. Why spend an extra year at school, when the path to becoming a practicing physician is already long enough. I know some people get MD/MBAs but in the current economic and political environment it seems like overkill. As health care costs skyrocket, HMOs and government regulations are bound to increase. This is going sharpen the divide between doctors and administrators. </p>
<p>The reason why a MBA (or a BBA for that matter) is useful is to brand oneself. But like I said, as doctors lose autonomy over their practices, I don’t know if you would need it as a physician. If you do want gain more business savvy…read a book. It’s a lot cheaper.</p>
<p>Hey, for the GPA boost for Ross (4.4 for A+, 3.4 for B+) it might make sense to be a BBA if you wanted to go to med school or law school for that reason.</p>
<p>i feel like most medical schools would recalculate a ross gpa to not include 4.4 for A+. i don’t have any evidence of this, but it’s just my gut feeling</p>
<p>gailees, if you’re serious about pursuing bme+bba send me a pm and i can help you out.</p>