<p>So I just finished my freshman year at Emory, and now I am in this dilemma where I cannot decide whether I want to go to med school or get MS in engineering. I sort of set myself up for pre-med track for awhile, but now I am considering engineering. There is no engineering program at Emory, and no one to council you on engineering path, so I am confused about it.</p>
<p>So I want to keep both pre-med, and engineering options open for as long as possible, so what can I do? I do not know how the engineering track works... What kind of requirements do grad engineering schools have? What would engineering requirements on top of pre-med requirements look like?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!!!</p>
<p>Grad programs in engineering will look for some key coursework–esp. modern physics, and 4+ semesters of mathematics and computer programming.</p>
<p>Also, depending on the engineering field, they will want courses like statics, systems, circuits, thermo- and electro-dynamics.</p>
<p>It is very difficult to go from biology (pre med) to graduate engineering. You simply do not have the math, physics or CS needed. You will need to go to bridge program/second degree to make up your difficiencies. </p>
<p>(D2 looked at grad programs in biomedical engineering, but she’s double major in bio and math and took engineering [calc-based] physics in undergrad as well as programming for BMEs… Schools told her they would accept her conditionally and give her 1 year [unfunded] to make up her missing engineering pre-reqs.)</p>
<p>Most liberal arts colleges offer a 3-2 engineering option: 3 years at the LAC (where you will be expected to major in math or physics) followed by 2 additional years of pure undergrad engineering coursework at an associated university.</p>
<p>If you want to hold your options open as long as possible, talk to the academic advising center at Emory to find out if they offer a 3-2 program, then switch your major to either mathematics or physics and follow the suggested course of studies for pre-engineering. You’ll need to work bio and Ochem into your schedule for pre med. After your junior year, transfer to the engineering program. Then when you’re finished your 4th year, take the MCAT and apply to med schools. Or wait until after graduation and apply to med school then.</p>
<p>(And if you’ll be applying to enter med school in fall 2016 or later–and remember you need to add a year on to your current anticipated year of graduation for the 3-2 program-- you’ll also need to add intro psych, into soc, genetics, and biochem to your schedule for the new 2015 MCAT and the anticipated changes to med school admission requirements due to the new MCAT.)</p>