<p>I applied for Biochemistry and Cell biology to both Cal and SD, and got into both. Now I am thinking about going to SD only if i would have a chance switching majors into Bioengineering-premedical. When I went to admit day, I saw that the major was not a closed major (whatever that means). Does anybody have expirence with this? Is it possible to switch into BME?</p>
<p>This is going to be pivotal in my decision.</p>
<p>In the presentation they said that it was possible, but I'd suggest calling them to confirm that it was a possiblity. The thing is, even the people who applied for BME on their aplication only are accepted as pre-majors anyway, and have to complete some stuff before they can get the full BME major anyway.</p>
<p>there are three majors:
Bioengineering
Bioengineering-Biotechonology
Bioengineering-Pre-Med</p>
<p>Top 2 (bio,bioeng-biotech) are Impacted(Closed) Majors. No-one can change into them from other majors (including bio-pre-meds).</p>
<p>you can switch between bio & bio-biotech.
bio & bio-tech can switch to bio-pre-med but not the other way.</p>
<p>bio-pre-med must have 3.0 or better to actually accepted to bio-pre-med program (jr year). So, if you are accepted as bio-pre-med, you are actually bio-pre-pre-med.</p>
<p>to summarize, if you are accepted as bioengineering, bioengineering-biotechnology, you can change to bioengineering-pre-med (not pre-pre-med) at anytime. But if you are accepted as bioengineering-pre-med (pre-pre-med), you have to prove yourself by getting min of 3.0 gpa to formalize as bioengineering pre-med.</p>
<p>So, to answer, if you did not get accepted as bioeng, it would be almost impossible to get in :(</p>
<p>well I was thinking about going into Bio-pre-med from Biochem (i was stupid and never applied to BME, since i though that they had a large physics emphasis.)</p>
<p>well... looks like since closed Bioengineering doesn't take new people, its 60-40 for Cal now...</p>
<p>BioE may be impacted at Cal, as well.</p>
<p>sounds like TreeO is already in for BioE at cal..</p>