<p>As a resident of North Carolina I'm considering applying to Wake Forest. My only concern is whether or not they have a strong math program, currently I am most interested in attending UNC-Chapel Hill but Wake also interests me. I am considering a biomedical engineering major with hopes of attending medical school, post-undergrad. Any opinions on what I could major in at Wake since they do not have an engineering program. Again wanting to know whether or not they have a strong math program.</p>
<p>Well, our Med School placement is pretty outstanding. You could major in biology or chemistry. That is what most folks doing a pre-med track major in. However I do know some that just met that basic pre-med requirements and majored in something else like Psychology or Spanish or History. I know the Mathematics department is good. No idea how it compares to Chapel Hill, but you should be more focused on looking at the pre-med program, the advising, etc. than the strength of your overall major. So focus more on the pre-med program than on the specific major. Wake Forest is probably best a pre-professional placement (Law, Business, Medicine), but generally all of our programs are pretty sound.</p>
<p>If you are looking just at north carolina and you are pre-med definetely think about Wake. You should look into interning at the Med School or something. One of the strengths of Wake's Medical facilities is that they cater to some some of the greater and more serious patient traumas. A friend from High Point was explaining to me that there aren't many good facilities for miles around other than Wake. I am not premed so I don't know how much this factors for undergrad but I know for a fact that for grad school Wake is admirable because of the experience it supplies in more complex cases. </p>
<pre><code> I'm guessing UNC and Duke also have good programs too. I love Wake so I'm really biased.
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<p>This might annoy you but if you are pre-med you should consider what school would suit you best if you dropped out of pre-med. So many people decide after freshman and sophomore year not to be pre-med. I hear the orgo class is a killer.</p>
<p>Yeah 40% of Wake kids go in Pre-Med and I believe 4-5% will graduate pre-med.</p>
<p>If you are considering biomedical engineering, I would take a serious look at the physics department. Here's some more information on that possibility:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wfu.edu/engineering/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wfu.edu/engineering/</a></p>
<p>If you find that you are more interested in biomedical engineering than medical school, Wake Forest also teams up with Virginia Tech to offer that opportunity for you after your undergraduate years:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sbes.vt.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.sbes.vt.edu/</a></p>
<p>I'm not really sure that I'm going about this the right way b/c I'm not really interested in going to graduate school in engineering but know that I want to major in something that involves having a strong math background (perhaps I should just stick with Mathematics) so that if I don't get into Medical school I'll have something to fall back on. I'm not going to be someone who just does a pre-med track and then gets screwed if they don't get accepted anywhere.</p>
<p>That's one of the good things about a liberal arts institution. If you come to Wake, you're going to have a lot of divisionals to fulfill from all over the college (less so now than for my class, but still a number). So you'll have a chance to sample classes from all sorts of disciplines. And you don't have to declare your major until the end of your sophomore year. </p>
<p>Our premed advisor tells all the entering pre-meds that you can major in anything and still go pre-med, so you should major in what you enjoy. It just might take some time for you to decide what you enjoy most. And luckily Wake has strong programs across the board, so it's hard to go wrong.</p>
<p>is it extremely hard to come across a wake merit scholarship?</p>
<p>Unless you are a minority, international, or really talented in a specific area (Presidential Scholarhips) you probably won't get merit aid. There is some merit aid, but the percentage of students on MERIT scholarship is low. They give out a lot more need based aid.</p>
<p>Hey all, graduated in 2004 and wanted to share a couple of thoughts on this question. First of all, compared to many of its peer institutions, Wake does an outstanding job of giving merit aid and not just to minority students or with the presidential awards. Not all of the awards are huge, but I knew a lot of people who got at least some scholarship assistance rather than having to take out just loans. And these weren't just kids that are starting non-profits in Africa either, just people with really solid grades and scores who had done some extracurriculars and wrote good essays on the scholarship applications.</p>
<p>I don't know much about the math department, but I majored in Biology and can't say enough about the wonderful professors and classes I took. If you're interested in medicine the department is great but also not so huge that you can't find your professors and a ton of people did good undergraduate research there. I also got great recommendations out of my professors and am headed to my top choice graduate school in the fall.</p>
<p>Just a note about biomedical engineering, it's true that Wake doesn't have it, but my significant other did BME at Duke for undergrad and really, though it sounds good and has "medical" in the title, it's really not the best preparation for medical school. A lot of it is geared towards becoming a researcher or working in industry, not practicing medicine. You may be better served on the MCAT and in medical school by a biology or chemistry major (or even physics, as a previous poster suggested), or majoring in math and taking the classes you need for pre-med too. Not to discourage you if BME is what you are really into, I just think you should talk to someone about what the engineering degree will prepare you for before you go that route. I'm also biased since Wake doesn't have engineering and I think it's a great place to be. Good luck with everything, hope this helped.</p>
<p>thanks so much demondeac11, you helped a lot. i'm not really sold on BME I just thought it would be a good major that would lead to a good career should I not get into Medical school. However, I definitely need to do more research on the major and I know that if I am determined to get into medical school I can definitely make it happen.</p>
<p>I can't speak to its quality but the number of Math majors is really small.</p>