How hard is biomedical engineering + advice?

Applying to College
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Hello,

I am a freshman in college, and I am currently undecided. Initially I wanted to enter the medical field, but because of personal reasons, I am not able to pursue medical,dental,pharamacy or vet school. So when I started looking for more options, I looked into biomedical engineering, since it still close to the healthcare field, and deals with the subjects related to medicine. My problem lies with the amount if math and physics involved. I am going to be taking precalc next semester, so I am one semester behind. The other health care fields go until calc, but engineering is very intense on the math and physics for 4 years. How hard is it, I am also not engineering minded, like I dont think about building/taking apart things like the engineering stereotype.

Is the math really intense, or is it a sequence that you just learn as you go along and you can manage it like that?
How about the physics?
And if you’re not a “builder”…is engineering feasible?

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I can’t speak on the rigor, but I did shadow a BME department this summer and after talking to about a dozen BM engineers, I learned that you most likely need to go to graduate school in order to get an exciting or well-paid job in the field. There were also a lot of current BME undergrads and grad students where I shadowed; most of the undergrads were applying to BME programs or med school, and the grad students were obviously earning their masters or phD in BME. I would highly recommend shadowing a BME department just to see if you like it and get some advice about your career path if you do. Personally I found that it wasn’t the career for me, but it was still very cool and interesting.
good luck!

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^^ so is it that you wouldn’t be able to get a good job unless you go to grad school? but did you think in terms of workload it was tough?