Looking for Biomedical engineering and business

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am interested in majoring in biomedical engineering (possible minor in nanotechnology) or double major with business (if possible), these are my two strongest interests.</p>

<p>I go to a public school in a wealthy community in NY that was rated 22 in the country for AP participation and in the top 100 in the country for AP scores (these rankings are for public schools). My school does not give rankings and has a very good reputation (harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, cornell, etc. I believe this year we had at least 12 acceptances to cornell). In addition, my school doesn't weight averages.</p>

<p>I had a 92.7 average at the end of sophmore year and now, currently a junior, I am probably going to have a 90 avg at the end of this year (hopefully).
I have many APs (all that I could fit in my schedule and by the end of this year I will have taken 5, by the end of next year I believe I will have 10-12)
I got a 2110 on the SATs (CR 700, Math 780, Writing 630)
My math and science avg is much higher than my soc and english (prob. around a 94-95 in math and science)
I also have 2 brothers currently at Cornell (1 graduating this year)</p>

<p>From what I've seen, Cornell will suite me very well and I like that school a lot. I know this post might fit in "What are my chances" but I think it will work here better. What exactly are my chances at cornell (applying engineering)?</p>

<p>Also, what other schools should I be looking at?</p>

<p>Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance for your replies.</p>

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<p>How about MIT?</p>

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<p>try Carnegie Mellon. They have a very easy double major process. Engineering is ranked 8th and Business 5th.</p>

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<p>I have absolutely no chance at MIT. I believe it is harder to get into than Princeton and all the other Ivy's. I'll have to look at Carnegie Mellon.</p>

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<p>U of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>Your SATs would put you about in the middle of the Cornell engineering student profile. The 780 math is good. Cornell sounds like a good fit.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't say Upenn has a good engineering program at all.</p>

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<p>Northwestern. Top-10 econ and BME. If you do BME, the engineering school has a little "business basics certificate" program you can pursue. Largely because the school has very strong material science, chemistry, and chemical engineering departments, it is one of the premier research centers for nanotechnology. I doubt there's a "minor" though you may be able to get involved in the research. <a href="http://www.nanotechnology.northwestern.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nanotechnology.northwestern.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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I wouldn't say Upenn has a good engineering program at all.

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<p>What are you talking about, Penn is ranked 7th in BioEngineering. Bio and nano are the two top engineering programs at Penn.</p>

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<p>Penn has the Jerome Fischer program which is a special dual major between engineering and management (business).</p>

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<p>I just confirmed that you can definitely get involved in research in nanotechnology at Northwestern. Look under "undergraduate research" at <a href="http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/Mat_Sci_Open_House_2005.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/Mat_Sci_Open_House_2005.pdf&lt;/a>. The best way to get into nano is probably majoring in material science, one of the top-3 programs, though it's possible to do so as a BME as there are BME faculty involved. It's very easy to double major within the engineering school and that can be another option worth considering.</p>

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<p>If I were you, I'd look at Duke. I've heard from my neighbor that BME is one of the hardest majors to pursue at Duke but the most rewarding.</p>

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I wouldn't say Upenn has a good engineering program at all.

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<p>I have to agree with Aurelius and ask what are you talking about? What is Penn engineering ranked - somewhere in the 30's? That is an EXCELLENT ranking. Keep in mind that there are literally hundreds and hundreds of engineering programs out there. UPenn is not MIT, but it's still better than most of the other programs out there. </p>

<p>Think of it this way. If Upenn isn't any good at all, then what does that say about all those other programs that are ranked even lower?</p>

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<p>If your talking biomedical engineering you can't discount Case Western. It's true that their business school isn't stellar (probably top 30), but their BIOE is top 3. I think that may be a safety for you, althought I didn't read throught your stats all the way though they seem impressive. Also, Case W. has one of the few coop programs in the country. Thats especially attractive for engineers and business students. The Cleveland Clinic and Merril Lynch are places that take many Case coop students...</p>

<p>Maybe not a top choice but still worth considering, they are known to give very good financial aid.</p>

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<p>Guys, come on how can we leave out Johns HOpkins University? It was ranked #1 in Biomedical Engineering in the country</p>

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<p>Cornell doesn't have a BME major, just a bioengineering minor.</p>

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<p>Cornell offers a bachelors degree in Biological Engineering</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bee.cornell.edu/UNDERGRADUATE/ug-programs_bioEng.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bee.cornell.edu/UNDERGRADUATE/ug-programs_bioEng.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins doesn't have an undergrad business school does it? And their business school is really bad too no?</p>

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<p>Thanks for your input. I just got back from visiting my brothers at Cornell and I'm looking at their BEE program. Other than the business part, it seems to be what I'm looking for.</p>

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<p>Cornell undergrad business is certainly not Wharton, but Cornell does have a highly regarded undergrad general business major housed in the Ag school. It has an outstanding econ major too.</p>