<p>^summers don’t really count for most people. i like to think of Stanford as a trimester system :)</p>
<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I had a question: how realistic is double minoring? While I’m not crazy enough to attempt to double major, I am still interested in pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering with minors in both Materials Science and Economics. Is this a realistic goal? I will be using my AP Calc BC credits to start in the Math 50 series and my AP Spanish credits to get out of the language requirement, so hopefully this makes it easier.</p>
<p>^Definitely doable, though it may or may not be realistic depending on your circumstances and desires.</p>
<p>@confusedmama, the summer quarters are not part of the standard academic year. You can finish the bachelors a year ahead of time even without summer quarters. Some of my classmates finished both a bachelors and a masters in their 4 years at Stanford (just about the same tuition as a standard BA too!).</p>
<p>In general, how do Stanford students fare in getting into good medical school? I am turning down BU and Case BSMD combined programs. Thanks.</p>
<p>The reception we had last week in Houston was awesome. Unfortunately, all alumni and future students were engineers and would be engineers. Could not get much answered other than going online to the Stanford premed site.
Any input much welcomed.
Thanks.</p>
<p>I have classmates who majored in Human Biology @ Stanford undergrad who’ve gone to Stanford, Harvard, and UCSF med school. HumBio is an interdisciplinary pre-med major you might want to consider in contrast to straight up Bio.</p>
<p>how insanely hard is it to be a mayfield fellow? hehe :P</p>
<p>Could anyone tell me more about bioengineering at Stanford? It seems to be a relatively new major for undergraduates, and someone (not in bioengineering) told me that it has a lot more credit requirements than a lot of majors…</p>
<p>@Enigma: I don’t know exactly how hard it is, but I know it’s pretty hard to be chosen as a Mayfield Fellow. The program itself is also demanding.</p>
<p>@TexaCal: bioengineering as an undergraduate major is relatively new (I think it’s in its second year). Before, the closest thing undergrads had was biomechanical engineering. The bioengineering major seems to have about the same number of required courses as many other engineering majors, which do tend to be the most unit-intensive. Some have complained that it’s difficult for an engineering major to study abroad because of the number of required courses. At the same time, that’s to be expected in an interdisciplinary major, since you have to get a foundation in several different areas. So because of that, you’ll have to start on the major relatively early, but the good thing about interdisciplinary majors is that the basic requirements also segue well into other majors if you decide that you don’t want to major in bioengineering. For example, bioE segues well into biology, chemistry, and other engineering majors.</p>
<p>One thing that strikes me about bioE is that the required courses are often just that: required courses, as opposed to a restricted set of courses, from which you take one or two classes. I count ~28 requirements, which is on the heavy side, but very manageable when you consider that a) taking an average of 4 classes per quarter means you’ll take 48 courses by the time you graduate, and b) bioE satisfies a few different GERs (math, engineering, natural science, and ethics for citizenship).</p>
<p>[Bachelor</a> of Science Program - Bioengineering - Stanford University School of Medicine](<a href=“http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/education/undergraduate.html]Bachelor”>http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/education/undergraduate.html)</p>
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Manageable I think is a good word. However I’d like to caution that 3 of those classes will be IHUM and 2 will be PWR. 3 may be language. So it’s more like 40-43 classes, but also consider the fact that if you do study abroad you probably will take 1 class at most for your major abroad, plus the fact that 4 classes each quarter may be a bit too much (and instead you do what a lot of people do and have a quarter each year with 3 classes) and that leaves you with 6 classes you can take for interest outside of your major. </p>
<p>Unless you’re super devoted to your major, that’s fairly undesirable in most cases. You may want to minor, or try out other fields, or what not. </p>
<p>Of course this assumes you need the 3 language classes and that you don’t have any AP credit. If you are premed though (?), you’ll have to retake some of the AP classes and you’ll have the requirements for that too. </p>
<p>By comparison biomechanical engineering is about 24 classes. But I had AP credit, which brought the total down to 21. Right now I have 10 left and 6 quarters to take those ten. So AP credit and an early start can make things very reasonable.</p>
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<p>Actually, this probably won’t be true for the person above, since the undergraduate curriculum is undergoing an overhaul right now. From what Dean Julie said, it’s very likely that the requirements will be reduced significantly, the main argument for which being that engineering majors (among others) have difficulty taking electives and studying abroad because of all the requirements. Also, students often take more than 1 course abroad.</p>
<p>I don’t think 4 classes is ever “too much” if you balance your course load, and any of the advisers (UAR, AD, etc.) can help you with balancing it if you aren’t sure. With an average of 15 units per quarter, that’s four 3-4 unit classes, very manageable.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your replies!
I feel more at ease about pursuing bioengineering.
Also, will we get a course catalog of some sort before orientation week?</p>
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Yes but generally only one at most for the major. Other classes are things like history of that culture or whatever, things that the student likely wouldn’t take if they weren’t abroad.</p>
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Yes, but 4 classes, more than half of which will be techy classes, for each quarter can get a bit heavy. Add in ECs and a social life and it can be very stressful.</p>
<p>yes, i know it’s a vain question, but are guys at stanford actually goodlooking?</p>
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<p>When I said “balanced,” I meant that if you strike a balance among your techy classes as well, 4 classes is manageable. I take about equal numbers of techy and fuzzy classes, and 2, sometimes 3, of my classes will be on the techy side (sometimes I’ll have a lighter quarter with only 1 techy class). But I know that of the techy classes I take, I’m sensible enough not to take, say, CS 161 with CS 140. So again, if you balance your classes right, you can always take 4 classes and find it generally manageable. (In fact, if you take 3 courses and they’re not 5-unit courses, you’ll have to take more than 15 units another quarter to make up for it. That’s an example of messing up the balance, which necessarily messes up the balance of another quarter.)</p>
<p>No matter what you choose, even if you’re balanced, it’s going to be stressful. Stanford isn’t easy–grade inflation might help you out at the end, but in the meantime, the classes push you pretty hard. That’s college.</p>
<p>beatbox55,</p>
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<p>I’m gay and I’d say the guys at Stanford are pretty attractive. 
I’ve always thought Stanford’s pretty good in this area actually, but there’s variety of course.</p>
<p>edit: college.prow.ler (I don’t know why CC has to block out the name, I’m not even linking to it) gives Stanford an “A” for guys, based on student surveys. Take from that what you will.</p>
<p>beatbox if you’re an attractive girl, you’ll have your selection of good looking guys to choose from. If you’re a guy I’m not sure how many attractive gay guys there are.</p>
<p>On the schedule for the Admit Weekend are events called Dorm Programming. Could anyone elaborate on what this event is and what takes place? The description is a bit vague. Thanks :)</p>
<p>what about the girls? :P</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I would like to know how attractive the girls are. I am an attractive guy, so I want a hot chick!</p>
<p>Is the saying true that 90% of the girls in Cali are hot, and the other 10% attend Stanford?</p>