The four schools I’d really want to go to for chemical engineering: UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UCI. I can apply to UCI and UCSD this fall, if admitted I’d start Fall of 2016. Or I can wait a year and try to get into UCLA or UCSB. I’d have to wait another year because those two schools have more requirements to apply. I plan on going to grad. school for Biomedical engineering. Is it worth trying to get into a more competitive school and potentially struggling? Or should I go to a less competitive school and most likely graduate with a better class ranking? Which would give me a better chance at getting into a well-known graduate program? Any other advice is very appreciated. If i were to apply this fall I’d have close to a 3.5 GPA, completed a year of Chemistry, a year of Physics, and the entire Calculus series, and an internship as a lab tech at an aerospace company. I guess this also become a "what are my chances?: post.
I don’t understand why you study Chemical engineering for undergraduate and then biomedical engineering for graduate. UCSB and UCB are great for chemical engineering. UCSD is tops for bio and bio related engineering such as biomedical engineering. Check the requirement for these UCS, I think from what I’ve read they are more important.
@DrGoogle is it a bad idea to do chemical undergrad and biomedical grad?
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No, that is FINE. Many BioMedE grad students got their undergrad degrees in ChemE or MechE. Few schools offer BioMedE for undergrad, so many grad schools happily accept ChemE and MechE majors as well.
ChemE and Mech for undergrad is far more marketable than BioMedE
Thank you.
It’s not bad, but is really your interest? Are you worry about job for Biomedical engineering?
@DrGoogle, I want to do biomedical engineering because I like the idea of doing clinical research or lab research. I’ve always liked working with my hands, especially in a lab, and at the same time I’d be helping people. So it seems like a good fit for me.
I meant why no study biomedical engineering for undergraduate and then do the same for graduate. I’m just curious about the reasoning, not necessary anything right or wrong.
Oh I misread your previous posts. I’m deciding to do chemical engineering undergrad and biomedical engineering for grad school because, it seems to me that I can do more with a B.S. chemical engineering than with a B.S. biomedical engineering, in regards to career paths. This way once I go to grad school for biomedical engineering there will be a lot of different fields I can work in.