<p>Is there something I could do that will assist me in getting into med school with a mechE undergrad degree?</p>
<p>How do you mean? Med school admissions are largely about scores and courses. Take the required courses for med school (which will probably add a solid semester+ to your ME requirements) and try for the best darned GPA and MCAT possible.</p>
<p>What year are you now?</p>
<p>Im a senior in high school and cant decide between wanting to be a doctor or engineer.</p>
<p>Okay. I would suggest looking in the med school forums to familiarize yourself with med school admission requirements. Going from ME to med school means taking one of the more demanding undergraduate programs out there and adding to it a semester’s worth of classes and GPA requirements that maybe 1 in 6 achieve - not impossible, but not necessarily conducive to the classic “college experience” or, you know, sanity. But people do it, and if you are willing to actually work hard enough, you can too.</p>
<p>At some point you are going to have to decide between the two careers, and it will be during your last few semesters of undergrad. The courses that would best suit you to be a working engineer are likely to reduce your MCAT study time and potentially lower your GPA - the classic med school move is to take the easiest classes you can to bolster that GPA, something that does NOT work well for most engineers, so you will need to decide which is more important to you then.</p>
<p>I agree with what is written here. Going from engineering to med school is not impossible but a difficult road becuase the GPA’s required for admission. obtaining a 3.5+ is very hard in engineering. i would say a 3 in engineering is like a 3.75 in most business programs. i would say that if you cannot maintain at least a 3.4 gpa in engineering, switch to business (your grades will soar) and you will be more competetive. </p>