<p>oh, I see what you were asking me, OP. I was being facetious when I commented on those two schools as safeties. I think it’s great that they can be your safeties. They are two of the best ChemE programs in the country, and they’re your backups! 
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<p>I don’t think U-MN/TC for ChemE is a safety for the OP. I think it is the most competitive program to get into at U-MN, and the OP is out of state without a super GPA and test scores. He only has one safety, assume PSU is one.</p>
<p>so you’re saying @intparent, that the word is out on UMN-TC and a lot of would be ChemE majors are applying? </p>
<p>The OP has a 760M on the SAT, a 760M on SATIIM2, and a 780SATIIM1. What’s not super about those test scores? How much higher could he get? Who is UMN taking if not the OP? He’s above the middle 50 in everything except CR where he’s tied for the 75th percentile. His SATI is 2190. His ACT is way above the middle 50. He’s full pay.</p>
<p>I respectfully disagree. UW is a safety for this person.</p>
<p>@loquatical </p>
<p>Yup. On my mom’s side her parents did the same thing, I’m fully convinced they’ll hold up their end.</p>
<p>@jkeil911 @intparent </p>
<p>Is ChemE just the most versatile major for me at this point? Because regardless of where I go, is it feasible to get a high enough gpa to make med schoo with a ChemE major? If I was to expand my major search outside of Chemistry, what would be your suggestion for a major with good med school potential <em>and</em> a feasible job after grad?</p>
<p>This is certainly something to consider, and something to talk to your parents and guidance counselor about. </p>
<p>Financial security is a difficult thing to tell someone else about. I could not have been financially secure unless I was happy, but that’s me. I had to do something that I love, or at least I had to try to do it. I love what I do, and I get paid to do it. So my way of approaching your question would be to ask what are the things you love to do? </p>
<p>I don’t know that this is the forum to be having this discussion. Let’s see what other people on the forum think or suggest.</p>
<p>Err… I’m not sure how to answer that, specifically, how do I love anything in school? It’s literally just a set of courses I have to sit through. If you’re saying “major in whatever makes you happy”, then I hit a brick wall: I’ve always enjoyed learning about the immune system and disease (Ozzy & Drix as a kid probably play a huge role here), but those are things I’d meaningfully look at the grad school level, so I currently opt towards OChem as a major just because it is somewhat relevant to those topics, I still don’t know if that’s what you meant by things I “love to do”, so sorry if that wasn’t the response you were looking for. </p>
<p>Thank you for your honesty. You and I are different then, and my suggestion is not going to fit your personality unless you have misunderstood me or I have not been clear. Let me try one more time and then I’ll shut up. </p>
<p>According to my suggestion, you would do what is necessary to pursue your enjoyment of “learning about the immune system and disease.” If that’s a chemical pursuit for you, then you learn about chemistry and everything else needed in order to learn about the immune system. For others it’s a biological pursuit. For others a historical or visual arts pursuit.</p>