<p>How is SEAS at Penn? How hard is it to do pre-med and engineering at Penn? Any current students or other students?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>1/4 of bioengineering is premed or so ive heard</p>
<p>how many bioengineering freshman are there?</p>
<p>I talked to a senior and a BME professor on Friday and they said about 1/3 is premed, 1/3 will go to grad, 1/3 right into companies. Not sure how many BME freshman there will be but ALOT. I believe it's Penn's biggest eng. field and when I went on Friday, we had lunch at Towne and we were divided according to our major. BME had about 5 tables all to themselves while most had 1!</p>
<p>I have a friend who is a junior at Penn in engineering and I actually ran into him last week at Penn Previews (I'm going in the college). He told me some interesting things about engineering. He really likes Penn, especially the social aspect of it. However, he really hates the engineering. He says it is really hard with a ton of work (I've heard this from other people, too). He also said that there are so many requirements he has to meet that he has barely any flexibility in making his schedule. He couldn't even go abroad his junior year because of all the requirements. And it's not like all of this work and these requirements are worth it because Penn isn't that great of an engineering school (ranked like 30th). From an academic standpoint, he said it would have been smarter for him to go to Penn State, which has a better engineering program.</p>
<p>Now, I guess you're doing pre-med so I don't know about that. This is just what my friend says. Just warning you...</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn't be too concerned about engineering being too hard or too regimented.. yes ,you do have much less flexibility than in the college, but you're also getting a much more specific degree. Also, you most certainly, 110% have time to go abroad, you just have to plan it out. People with dual degrees still go abroad...
SEAS is also 26th I believe (I know, not a huge difference..), and gets a bad rep for it's small size.. it really is a nice school though and people come out of here with good jobs, they really do.
And you do have room for flexibility.. I'm taking a wharton class this semester and next, and a fine arts class next semester.. it's all about planning with SEAS..</p>
<p>How flexible is it to do engineering and pre-med at Penn?</p>
<p>And just how hard is it? I have no idea at all. How's the change from high school to univ?</p>
<p>do u have to go abroad? i don't plan on it...</p>
<p>no, going abroad isn't mandatory at all, though it is a very popular option..</p>
<p>I'm not sure how flexible engineering and pre-med is, but it probably isn't so bad, since you'll probably fufill almost every pre-med requirement with your engineering requirements. </p>
<p>I think the change from high school to college has a lot to do with what you're used to.. I found it a drastically different work load than what I previously had, but I adjusted pretty quickly..</p>
<p>honestly, there really isn't much flexibility with SEAS, esp. if you are pre-med. my "free electives" for next year are organic chemistry. but, like everyone has said, if you plan ahead of time, you can do whatever you want pretty much. i know many people who have gone abroad.</p>
<p>I guess a lot also depends on your major in SEAS.. a BE major would probably have an easier time than so a CSE major. </p>
<p>and everything is planning, planning, planning.. Also, take into account the flexibility we have in our "flexibility". We don't have crazy distributions to fufill and can take just about anything as a social science or humanity (and I know there are a ton of courses you can't, but it's actually a lot less limiting than some of the college requirements in taht respect)</p>