<p>I was thinking of going to Cooper Union for Undergraduate study in chemical engineering. However, the institute is a pure engineering school, and I dont think many go to medical schools from there. Do you think it is advisable to go to a Undergraduate insitute where very few opt to go to medical school if I plant to go to medical school later on?</p>
<p>I don't think it's advisable to do engineering and premed at the same time.</p>
<p>could u give a reason?</p>
<p>cause its frickin hard??? lol...unless you think you can handle it then go for it</p>
<p>Its hard as hell, I regret it. Too late now for me tho. But i do recommend something other then engineering.</p>
<p>but i thought the courses in the engineering major will really help me to prepare for future career in medicine, as well as in MCAT.</p>
<p>uh.....no.</p>
<p>Courses in Engineering will not help you in medicine unless you go into biotech or something related to that field. My friend is doing Bioengineering, says its really fun, but difficult at the same time. I wouldn't recommend it. Upper division biology courses are what prepare you for medical school, when you take them you will understand why.</p>
<p>you could do biomedical engineering...that is the type of engineering a lot of kids do who are also premed</p>
<p>I mean if you are into that stuff go for it...but why take so many more physics and math classes when the mcat only tests the intro level ones?</p>
<p>do medical colleges care how many and how difficult courses u take after u finish the intro courses? I mean it sounds strange that one should just take intro courses for four years in college.</p>
<p>well if you're majoring in a science, then obviously you are going to take more advanced classes than just intro to biology or something like that...and then it depends if your college has core requirements in social sciences, race and ethnicity, etc like at UM...those you can take stuff like intro to world politics but really thats not interesting and there are better classes than that...but those are just for the sake of interest and possibly boosting your gpa</p>
<p>med schools for the most part could careless if you took advanced level physics or w/e as long as you did well in them of course. It might give you a slight SLIGHT edge but not really at all. </p>
<p>oh and also...the only intro classes that are premed are intro to general chem, intro to bio, and intro to physics 1.....thats what im thinkin at least...i mean ochem 1,2, physics 2, calc 2..those aren't really "intro" classes</p>
<p>Make sure you do well in Ochem, because Medical schools put great weight on how you performed in your ochem courses. This is because the information you learn in those courses is easily comparable to the amount of information you learn in medical school.</p>
<p>At the same time, of course, organic chemistry is only one class. It might arguably be the most important class - and I'm not sure of even that, compared to something like animal physiology - but really, it's only one class.</p>
<p>Even a C in ochem won't kill you. It's bad - don't get me wrong, it's bad - but it won't single-handedly destroy you.</p>
<p>Is organic chemistry that hard? It seems everyone is having heart attacks when they talk about organic chemistry</p>
<p>Organic is relatively easy if you study every day, work problems, and don't cram for tests. Keep up and it won't kill you, but with all of the added pressures of college (extracurriculars, friends, parties, procrastination, volunteering, get the idea), it's hard to study everyday and takes an iron-clad will. Of course, everything depends on your chemistry background and your professor.</p>
<p>...If you want to be a doc for NASA, by all means get that engineering degree.</p>
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<p>This is only possible in happy fantasy land...however in the real world there is no way that you will be possible. But this doesnt mean that it isnt possible to get through it and even do well if you ignore it and cram for tests....u just have to know how to do it.</p>
<p>"Organic is relatively easy if you study every day, work problems, and don't cram for tests."</p>
<p>That's true, but what course isn't hard if you study everyday, work problems, and don't cram? Organic Chemistry has been one of the hardest courses I have taken at my institution and I have put more time into it than any other one of my courses. So DO take it seriously.</p>
<p>Orgo isn't that hard...but I guess it depends on how the insitution gives exams and grades..at UM, they grade so ridiculously hard..i mean like if you miss 1 tiny detail you lose like 12 points on a problem...maybe its the same at other insitutions maybe not, but if keep working at it and go get help when needed, it shouldn't be a killer subject or anything</p>
<p>I said that orgo really depends on your experience and professor (i.e. his or her grading standards, expectations, teaching style). Also, I wasn't intimating that orgo is easy, I was saying that the material in orgo is easy. It's the student's responsibility to study as much as he or she needs to succeed. Some people do study everyday, some people never study. Some people who never study get As, even in orgo. Organic Chemistry is thought of as a benchmark because it shows your ability to either grasp new concepts quickly or study with the ethic of George Orwell's Boxer. Either way, it shows the ability to succeed in medical school.</p>