<p>how is BME at SEAS?
is it good for pre med?
are there alot of pre med students?
do they grade harshly like in cornell?</p>
<p>bump bump :)</p>
<p>Hm I’d also like to know lol</p>
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This isn’t a question anyone on this board is likely to answer.</p>
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Some kids go the pre-med route with a BME major.</p>
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Better than your first question but still not great. Asking something specific like this is more likely to get you a response. I personally don’t have an answer but perhaps if you post some specific questions you can’t find answers to by googling then the 1 BME on the board might be able to help you</p>
<p>yea i really don’t feel like repeating myself over and over again …go back and read what i’ve written before then if you still have specific questions i’d be happy to answer those</p>
<p>BME at Col is pretty difficult, easily one of the hardest majors in the school, i don’t think it’s graded generously either, (might not be graded too hard though). All i know is that many kids do BME with the intent of going to med school (most of the BME curric at Columbia and at any school is completely useless and a severe waste of time for this purpose). Many either drop pre-med because they like BME and can’t get the grades, and many other drop BME switching to apma or operations research for better grading. the IEOR department is known to grade leniently compared to SEAS as a whole, usually curves to Bs or B+s, although some of the classes are curved to B-s. If you are pre-med, it’ll be easier to do something like earth and environ eng, apma (which is difficult but flexible) or IEOR which is technical but the easiest set of majors in seas with the highest gpas. Med schools will much prefer a 3.75 from IEOR rather than a 3.4-3.5 with BME, even though I’d say those two are equally difficult to achieve. </p>
<p>Unless you have a real knack and passion for what BME actually is, but your passion for becoming a doctor outweighs this, BME + premed doesn’t make much sense. Most pre-meds I know are extremely conservative with what classes they take, they are careful to take easy classes with good curves, often place down into lower level classes to get better grades. Some of course just show up and rock it with a set of crazy classes, but that’s not the norm.</p>