<p>If you really want to be a doctor, then you don’t have much to lose by starting in bme. Apart from 140, the first year goes through all the premed requirements besides Bio 2 and Organic Chemistry. Hopefully by that point you’re a little more decided on what you want to do.</p>
<p>I’ll second DJEureka- there’s no harm in being bme your freshman year (you take all the first year premed classes and all the first year engineering classes).</p>
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BME’s with only an undergrad degree don’t do this kind of thing really. If you’re interested in this kind of thing, what part of it is it? “creating cyborgs” encompasses mechE, EE, and CSE (and biology, but anyone can look up the constants you’d need for a biological system). Depending on which of those three you like best, you could always still be engineering premed but not BME.
As you mentioned, you really need a grad degree in bme (or undergrad in mechE/EE) if you want to go into that kind of industry.</p>
<p>Remember that you can be premed with any major, you’ll just have to take both your degree courses and premed courses. The common premed majors just happen to overlap heavily with the premed courses.</p>
<p>So what’s the point of getting a BME bachelors if any other engineering bachelors will get you employed in the field, but ironically not BME?</p>
<p>^The vast majority of bme’s I know have 0 desire to go into industry. They’re all research-nuts. They’ll go on to get an MD, PhD, PharmD, DMD, etc. Or go to law school. Or get an MBA.</p>
<p>Which is totally fine if that’s what they like (it’s just not for me).</p>
<p>(I can name 4 people off the top of my head who have industry internships this summer - 2 of them however are double majors; and one is doing more biology than engineering, really).</p>
<p>Do they have internships because they’re lucky or just because they decided to do that instead of research?</p>
<p>If you don’t particularly like physics but are an extremely hard worker, can you still do well in bme?</p>
<p>Can you do well? Yes. But physics is pretty important for most parts of engineering, including BME, from biomechanics, to signaling and transport phenomena (action potentials and whatnot), to medical technology. You’ll be using a lot of it past 197-8, so know that going in.</p>
<p>If you don’t like physics, engineering (any kind) is going to be quite miserable for you.</p>
<p>It’s one thing if you don’t like /some/ of physics for other engineering (ie a mechE who’s not a fan of E&M is generally fine, or a EE who doesn’t like newtonian physics). But bme is very broad. In your coursework, you’ll be using physics 1 & 2 in nearly every class you have to take.</p>
<p>Try the physics classes here. Maybe you’ll end up liking physics after you experience an awesome physics professor.</p>
<p>I suggest reading this article “Some Statistics on the MCAT and Undergraduate Majors”. BME majors make higher MCAT scores, by about 5 points on average compared to biology majors. While some people argue that med schools do not care about your major, they do care about your MCAT score.
[Some</a> Statistics on the MCAT and Undergraduate Majors A Med School Odyssey](<a href=“http://medschoolodyssey.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2010/03/30/some-statistics-on-the-mcat-and-your-undergraduate-major/]Some”>Some Statistics on the MCAT and Undergraduate Majors | A Med School Odyssey)</p>
<p>I didn’t even need to read your post to know that BME and premed is a huge mistake. While the combination would make you a great doctor, it won’t get you into a good med school. Instead consider high gpa majors such as Art History, and if you really want to shine…how about Neuroscience? But there is no need to stray into the evil realm of BME which…from experience…hurts…</p>
<p>^Did you join this site just to trash talk everything? Cause that’s all you seem to be doing…kinda annoying please stop.</p>