premed and engineering

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<p>when applying for pre med medical school and you majored in engineering and as a consequence your gpa isn't as high as say a psychology major.</p>

<p>in a typical hypothetical case suppose that two people apply to med school where one majored in psychology at the undergraduate level and the other as an engineering major. the psych majored pulled off a 4.0 where the engineering major only got a 3.0.</p>

<p>why is it that the psychology major will get accepted into med school whereas the engineering student will not?</p>

<p>i mean, are the admissions officers at medical schools these gpa-obsessed mindless rigid automatons that cannot comprehend the fact that some majors are harder than others?</p>

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<p>Just major in biology or microbiology or biochemistry instead...</p>

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<p>it's all about competition</p>

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<p>There's a huge difference between a 3.0 and a 4.0. It might not seem fair, but I can totally understand why they place so much emphasis on GPA and not much on major.</p>

<p>If you want to major in engineering, go ahead. Just make sure you do well.</p>

<p>Have you started college yet OP?</p>

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<p>try to pull off straight A's in the premed requirements</p>

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<p>I'm doing biomedical engineering. But yeah, engineering students are supposed to do better on the MCATs.</p>

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If you want to major in engineering, go ahead. Just make sure you do well.</p>

<p>Have you started college yet OP?

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<p>i have like one or two more quarters then im done with EE.</p>

<p>i have no intentions of going to med school its just a topic that i was just wondering about</p>

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engineering students are supposed to do better on the MCATs

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<p>but is that because of what they learn as engineering majors, or because of how self selective it is as a major?</p>

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<p>It's just the way it is. </p>

<p>Maybe med schools emphasize perfection, since you cant have a B average on performing surgeries on patients, 15-20% of your patients would die. </p>

<p>It's pretty much common sense not to do engineering if you intend on becoming a doctor. If you do that, most likely one of two things will happen: either you drop out of engineering and into an easier major, or you just become an engineer bc your GPA isnt high enough. </p>

<p>About the MCAT, from my experience, the average engineer is smarter than the average biology major premed. Also, the engineers who actually take the MCATs are probably the ones that have 3.5+ GPAs. That being said, I hear that english majors do the best on MCATs. </p>

<p>And a 3.0 in Engineering is MUCH easier to get than a 4.0 in Psycology. People make engineering sound impossible. 3.0 Engineering is average. An average student cannot get a 4.0 in a Psycology major, especially with pre-med requirements.</p>