Hey,
Im a senior this year and plan on majoring in BME on a pre-med track, but recently my friends and teachers alike have said that bme is one of the hardest majors in college and that they know pre-med bme students who did not get into med school since they had a less then stellar GPA. I do not want that to be me lol. Ill be honest I’m not very good at physics, but great at Bio and Math and decent at Chem, but i really want to get into med school in the future…so what is a good major for a pre-med student? Ive been hearing med-school like non-science majors since they are well rounded, is that true? If so whats a good non-science major for pre-med? I know I should major in something I enjoy, but I would like to hear other people’s opinions. ik in college you have work hard but still need some help here.
Plz and Thank You for your time! 
Lots of threads on this, just do a search. Here’s one:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1806209-preferable-pre-med-majors.html
<>> Ive been hearing med-school like non-science majors since they are well rounded, >>>>
Eh, people have been saying that for 40 years now…I’m not buying it. You can be well rounded as a science major. If you attend an undergrad that has good GenEd/Core req’ts and you include the newly recommended psych and sociology courses, then why wouldn’t you look well rounded?
You’re supposed to major in something that you really like AND will do very well in. If that’s Bio or Chem, then do that. If that’s English or History or Music, do that.
Any eng’g major is going to be a tough row to hoe as a premed. My son was a chemical eng’g major, and he’s now a third year med student, but I don’t think he’d recommend that route to premeds. It was very hard, as all eng’g disciplines are.
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ACT: 31
33 M 32 R 31 E 28 S Writing 11
GPA: 93.65
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Your stats are average for BiomedE particularly at BU, which I think is your goal. I would say that it’s too risky for you to be a premed BiomedE major at BU or similar schools.
Why do you want to be a biomedE major?
If you don’t go to med school, what would your alternative major be?
If you’re determined to be a BioMedE major and premed, then choose a school where you’ll be a strong, top student.
Thank you for your response but how do you know my stats are avg when I’m not in college yet? is there a place where you got some stats cause i would really like to look at them, it will help understand my predicament better. @mom2collegekids
BU’s college of eng’g is only accepting 3 out of 10 applicants.
The university’s top quartile has an ACT 32+
While I’m not seeing a published report of what the stats are for an incoming frosh Eng’g class, it’s safe to assume that the acceptees are in the upper 50% of the school.
Here is a link for engineering schools that shows incoming 2014 freshman stats:
BU (25/75/% in top 25% of HS Grad class) 29/33/93%
OP: You would be an average student there. May be tough on GPA for Med School. If you are hung up on BME you should look at:
UAB 24/30 64% (45% of BME go on to Med School per Associate Dean)
University of Iowa 25/30/71%
Agree with Mom2college kids, why BME?
In most schools, the differentiator between the average pre-med and the average engineer is taking Physics in freshman year. Many engineering schools now are requiring only one semester of Physics freshman year.
Physics is a pre-med requirement.
Pre-med requirements are just as tough as engineering, even an art history pre-med would be taking 2-3 hard science and math classes every single semester.
So it is not ridiculous for someone who is interested in both engineering and medicine to start the engineering sequence and see how they fare. If your GPA is good and you are competitive in engineering and you still are really interested in building medical hardware or software, you might actually decide to forgo the lengthy and difficult pre-med route and become a BME.
Or, ME, EE, CS all doable if you get started on the physics series early enough, and these all have excellent job prospects (if all the pre-meds who scrubbed out became BMEs that would be job crisis).
Junior year of engineering is much more difficult than a lot of other fields, including finishing up the pre-med sequence, but that gives you 2 years to think and see how you do GPA and otherwise at school and how your commitment to med school holds up.
ACT score of 31 does not disqualify someone from engineering, I am not sure you can really say this person is less qualified than an ACT of 33. I would be more worried if the high school curriculum wasn’t rigorous and did not include some AP level math and science, since that would required a lot of real-time learning in college.
For OP, you would have to think about why you had issues with high school physics and come up with a plan including self-study in summer before, tutoring and the like, to get an A in that in college.
The UCs have very limited engineering enrollment, so if Cali resident, you may have to decide earlier to pick your best option.
For OP, Rutgers would be a great choice …