is bioengineering aka biomedical engineering possibile for me?

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<p>African American Female
Junior In Highschool</p>

<p>I dont remember my freshmen & sophomore courses and grades but no grades lower than a B.</p>

<p>GPA 3.97 (unweighted) 4.5 (weighted) -- top 10%</p>

<p>Junior Year (current year)</p>

<p>Calculus 1 IB (also dual credit) - A
Physics 1 IB - A
English IB - A
Psychology IB - B
Environmental Science AP - A</p>

<p>Senior Year (next year)</p>

<p>I know i will be taking calculus 2 ib, physics 2 ib and english ib .</p>

<p>My act scores... Im struggling...
Math - 28
English-26
Reading-30
Science-20 (Ironic my science score is LOW but I have no problems in the classroom).</p>

<p>My activities:
Basketball 4 years - 3 years varsity
Tennis 2 years - 2 years varsity
Cross Country 2 years - 2 years varsity
Science Club
National Honor Society
Summer Scholars: an introductory program to medicine held at UMKC school of medicine
Science Pipeline held at UMKC (engineering & medical program)
Saturday Academy (Medicine) held at UMKC school of medicine
I am about to start volunteering at a Hospital probably about 3 days a week, starting next month. I am also about to join Habitat for Humanity.</p>

<p>I really enjoy hands on learning. I am pretty sure that I am going to apply to Medical School after college. I don't want anyone to tell me that there is easier ways to medical school because I know that. I just want to know, (according to my academics) if you think it would be possible for me to do well enough in bioengineering/biomedical engineering to go to medical school?</p>

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<p>It sounds like you have all of the qualifications of a good student.
I’m sure if you work very hard in the Biomedical Engineering classes, and develop a great understanding of what you’re taught, you’ll get into Med School.</p>

<p>It seems to me that you have the talent/potential to do well at anything you put your mind to :)</p>

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<p>ACT science is a hard one for a lot of people. Not indicative of ability to perform in college period. Nor are ACT scores in my opinion. It is a very crude measurment. The general trends may say higher standardized test indicate potential for success, but that will not be the case for everyone, I’ve seen the crash and burn as soon as first semester freshman year. College is about work eithic and working hard like SaraLane mentioned. </p>

<p>Now I am going to be honest with you. The path you speak of is difficult. So much so, it could theoretically hurt your chances at med school if you don’t pull a fairly decent gpa. However, doing an engineering over a science has its advantages if things don’t work out, just realize you will be going to graduate school if you want to pursue a BME career. </p>

<p>It is doable, and from everything I’ve read the med school admissions is good to BME’s (last I read up on it), but just know that you are going to go through an extremely rigourous undergrad along with the extreme rigor of med school. If you are up for the challenge and are serious about your interests, I would say nothing is stopping you.</p>