<p>So, I'll be attending the SEAS next fall as part of the class of 2011, but I'm wondering, given the relatively high difficult of engineering courses in general, do the (hopefully) slightly lower grades translate into significantly worse med and law school placement? My worse fear is, if I decide I want to do medicine instead of engineering (biomed or financial), I've screwed myself over by taking one of the most difficult majors and receiving lower grades than competing candidates. Would I have a much "easier" time at a school of arts and sciences as far as med/law school go?</p>
<p>I imagine that for engineering graduate school, my chances will be fine given generally lower gpas among engineers across the board, so I'm not too worried about that.</p>
<p>If you're good at math and science and work hard, there's no reason to think you'd be screwing yourself over. People in though SEAS majors get 4.0's or greater. What's the alternative -- majoring in one of the "joke" SEAS majors like EMS just to maximize your GPA? You're still going to need to take the core engineering courses.</p>
<p>i disagree with C02, you would be screwing yourself over in BME...of course it depends on what kind of person you are....if you are the type that does nothing but study all day and doesnt have any fun (alot of those in bme) then BME will be an advantage but if you dont want to spend four years in butler its a pretty bad idea cause remember at the end of the day you are competing with the people who spend all their time in the library or in their room studying (this may seem like an exaggeration but it sortof isnt). FE on the other hand doesnt seem like a "hardcore" SEAS major....my suggestion is do something easier that doesnt have as many requirements....this suggestion would be the same regardless of whether you are premed but then again it all depends on the type of person you are as stated earlier</p>
<p>Quite good number of SEAS students have been admitted to Harvard Medical School MD program. Most of them majored in Biomedical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering. Two of them majored in IEOR</p>
<p>So basically, I have to pull a 3.8+/ 33+ MCAT to have a decent shot at HMS/SMS/JHMS? My tour guide was a bme/premed major and said it wasn't <em>too</em> bad, so I figured it was worth a shot, but Shraf, is it really such huge time sink? My teacher keeps telling stories about the absurd things premed people did at columbia to get their As, but I always thought he was exaggerating.</p>
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<p>It's just tests that are pretty objectively graded.</p>
<p>yea, premeds r pretty bad but premed engineers tend to be worse. </p>
<p>was your tour guide a junior/senior or a freshman/sophomore? makes a huge difference BME doesnt really get THAT hard until junior year because until then you aren't taking classes that are that hard. </p>
<p>pulling a 3.8 in BME is absurd....there is someone in my class yr who got had a ~3.8 and a 37 and got into HMS....if you do pretty decently in BME you will end up at a pretty decent med school but of course getting a 3.5+ is quite difficult in that major.</p>
<p>But aren't the classes scaled/curved, so that the top kids still get A's (assuming that the top kids in the major are usually near the top in most of the required classes)?</p>
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<p>Yes, precisely. The suggestion that getting a 3.8 is "absurd" is a bit much. I did one of the really difficult SEAS majors and did just fine. Everything is curved; nobody gets C's; if you want an A, you just have to be smart and work hard; it isn't impossible or rare by any means.</p>