<p>I was wondering if UT is a good school to go to for biomedical engineering with a pre-med path. Any other suggestions with that major and later med school in Texas?</p>
<p>yes… it is an amazing school, just really really large</p>
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I’m not sure if they have that major but</p>
<p>Rice
Texas A&M
Trinity University</p>
<p>It is a great school, but gigantic! If you want a small school/class size, UT might not be the right place for you. What kind of school do you like?</p>
<p>Some schools that might work for you:
Baylor
Rice (Bioengineering, not sure if they have biomedical though)
SMU</p>
<p>I am really open to any size school. Anything that will give me a good foundation for med school!</p>
<p>I’m not very sure of its prestige level in the East Coast and Midwest, but in California I would say it is. And, it even has a better brand name power in most parts of the world outside American such as in Europe, Asia and Australia. UT (particularly Austin campus) is considered as one of the more prestigious American schools, even more prestigious than schools like Vanderbilt, Emory and Rice, I’m afraid.</p>
<p>What exactly is the honors program. I have seen information about it but none of it was verb clear.</p>
<p>Honors programs - in general - are programs designed for advanced students (extremely talented students, maybe HYPSM material) who are capable of learning and understanding courses way advanced for their classmates. Under such programs, undergrad students are then allowed to take courses that are supposed to be for master’s level students (graduate courses), and participate in graduate level research activities, collaborating with graduate and/or postgraduate students – so the level of exposure is higher. Honors programs are usually offered at schools with master’s and Phd programs, or universities, in short. </p>
<p>Honors programs are different from honors or awards given by LACs such as those latin honors (cum laude, magna or summa), though most students in the Honors Class normally end up graduating with latin honors.</p>
<p>At some schools like UT, students of Honors Class are separated from the rest of the students in the university. They are usually treated as special students, and thus, enjoy priority in enlistments, housing, consultation with faculty and advisers, and so on. At schools like Berkeley, Honors Class means differently. It means, those who are in it are allowed to take advanced courses or courses supposedly for graduate students. And that will appear on their transcripts and diplomas so the employers would know that they are truly gifted individuals.</p>
<p>What are the requirements to be in these programs?</p>
<p>^^^ top grades!</p>
<p>So high school rank and GPA?</p>
<p>For those incoming college students, the usual requirements: GPA, SAT, high school rank if the school does that, recs, ECs and great essays. But some schools allow students to transfer from regular programs to honors programs depending on your freshman grades and approval of your adviser. </p>
<p>The primary benefits of those who are in the honors class are not the prestige that they are getting from their fellow classmates/schoolmates (though I admit that’s primary for some students), but are in their ability to enroll advanced courses and be able to get exposure in their field at an early stage of their student lives. Prestige is just secondary here, for me.</p>
<p>Austin’s biomedical engineering program is among the five best in the country with resources matching its reputation. </p>
<p>It is, however, a very competitive program and admissions are not easy. It is also a small program as only 100 new biomedical undergraduates are accepted into the program each year, contributing to a close-knit and world-renowned university community. To be competitive for admission a high class rank and high a SAT composite score are both strongly considered. On an anedoctal basis, at least one student I know did forego admissions at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT to enroll in this program in Austin. </p>
<p>Fwiw, some of the discussions above regarding honors programs are, as people who know a modicum about the University of Texas, not really relevant to the biomedical engineering program at the Cockrell School of Engineering.</p>
<p>Read this easy to follow description:
<a href=“Academics”>Academics;
<p>The EHP, which is non-curriculum based is an entirely different program:</p>
<p>[Engineering</a> Honors Program - Cockrell School of Engineering](<a href=“Undergraduate Education”>Undergraduate Education)</p>
<p>Thank you for the information! I want to continue to med shook after my undergrad. Would I want to be in the engineering honors program or natural sciences program?</p>
<p>Atasc14</p>
<p>Most pre-med students at UT Austin go to CNS (College of Natural Sciences) that has a special Honors program for Health Sciences.
This topic is about Dean Scholars but it has pretty good description of HSH (post 13), plus description of Honor classes in CNS
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/1426224-deans-honor-scholar-program.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/1426224-deans-honor-scholar-program.html</a></p>
<p>My son was accepted into the biomedical engineering program at UT in the fall of 2010. He ended up having to withdraw for medical reasons. He found the program to be VERY challenging. He hadn’t had any programming classes before, and that was a big deficit. He was able to do research in the lab as a freshman, which he enjoyed.</p>
<p>Yes, UT is big, but it’s like a city with many neighborhoods. There were 48,000 students there when I attended, but I spent most of my time in the civil engineering building with the same small group of students. I was an architectural engineering major, which is another very small department. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at UT and received an excellent education. You do need to be a self-starter, though - nobody is going to hold your hand. There is a wealth of resources, but you have to look for them.</p>
<p>So, do you think a rigorous and challenging biomedical major is a bad idea for a student hoping to go to medical school and needs a high GPA to do so?</p>
<p>Atasc, that was my son’s original plan. An awful lot of people told him and me that it was not a good idea. </p>
<p>One of my son’s BME classes was so hard that a full 20% of the students, including him, dropped it! And as xiggi pointed out, these kids had to be very bright to even be in the class to start with.</p>
<p>My son ended up going into applied math (he wants to be an actuary now), but if he had stayed on the medical school path, he would have changed his major to science.</p>
<p>If I have all high A’s in my high school honors and AP classes will I most likely be able to keep my GPA above a 3.7 in the BME program?</p>
<p>How are we to judge that?? We don’t know you. Each person does differently in college. I was salutatorian and almost flunked out.</p>