<p>George Washington University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have both accepted me into their Biomedical Engineering undergraduate programs. But, now I'm stuck on the decision between the two. Both have given me the financial aid to bring me down to $8000 a year (from IL by the way), so money won't be a deciding factor. </p>
<p>Summary:
RPI: Pro - Solid education, Con - Likely lack of social life
GW: Pro - Enjoyable College experience, Con - Unknown education quality</p>
<p>Main Thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1143920-gwu-vs-rpi-bme-undergrad.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1143920-gwu-vs-rpi-bme-undergrad.html</a>
Much more information there</p>
<p>I know that RPI is ranked higher than GWU (as per Newsweek 41 vs 56). I also know RPI has a top notch engineering program and I believe there is info indicating it’s graduates have great jobs/salaries upon graduation. I hope that helps. Were you just taken off the WL?</p>
<p>I’m a BME at RPI, ending my sophomore year right now.</p>
<p>If you aren’t a clam, you won’t have a problem with having a social life. Also speaking from a fraternity stand point, most of the people in my fraternity never thought they’d join a fraternity but changed their mind after meeting the brothers, myself included.</p>
<p>GWU is a very good university though. A friend of mine really enjoys it over there, but I know nothing about their BME program. </p>
<p>If you have any questions about BME just post here</p>
<p>How are the internship and research opportunities for BME’s?
What are the most popular concentration or best supplied concentrations for BME students?
What is the approximate ratio of students that go to grad school, to the workforce or premed after graduating?
How is the ratio in BME related classes?
Is the girl problem as bad as people make it seem online, or are they making it into something it is not?
How hard are the frats to get into?
Do you know anything about theta xi at RPI?</p>
<p>I’m not a member of the admissions committee, I don’t know statistics. If you want those, go call them or look it up on the RPI site. I’m here to answer personal questions about the school itself, not how much money you’ll make from graduating or the percentage of med school applicants from BME, etc.</p>
<p>Most BME’s go into the biomaterials concentration. The motive I’m guessing is the type of classes you are exposed to before actually deciding on a concentration. Cell bio and biomaterials are by far the most enjoyable, and kind of lead you into wanting to do biomaterials. The modeling of biomedical systems and biomechanics courses you take as a sophomore at least pushed me far away from wanting to be a biomechanics/instrumentation concentration… mostly because they were both taught my crappy professors who didn’t care about the subject.</p>
<p>I consider myself premed because I anticipate on going to med school after graduating. I don’t believe there are many premeds simply because of the extra classes that we have to take that are not already in the curriculum. Out of the 90 BME students in my class, I’d say maybe 20 are premed.</p>
<p>I don’t see any problem with girls. When I was single at the beginning of the year I flirted and had dinner with a ton of them. BME especially has a lot of girls compared to other majors such as mech e or computer.</p>
<p>Basically if you get a bid from a fraternity you will get into it if you aren’t an awful pledge and if you don’t drop. Getting bids isn’t hard if you go to most of the fall rush events. It’s more important to rush a fraternity that you like than try to get into just any fraternity.</p>
<p>I personally do not like theta xi. I know two people in it who are complete *******s, and whether it be right or wrong, I associate their behavior with the entire fraternity.</p>