Want to Pursue Masters in Biomedical Engineering at a Top University but my GPA is low. Advice?

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I’m a 19 year old student.
I only recently decided I want to do biomedical engineering and that means I have to transfer to another university.
My GPA is currently 3.53 and these are my math grades(Quarter System):
Calc II B
Calc III A
MultiVariable Calc I B
MultiVariable Calc II A <— the harder one
Currently doing: Linear Algebra(got a 71 on my midterm cos of procrastination and skipping classes) and Differential Equations(probably A).

After this quarter I’ll go to a community college to catch up on my Physics and Chem then transfer to a university by either spring 2018 or fall 2018.
I was always seen to be a student with lots of potential but never serious and I only began to take school seriously recently. My GPA isn’t high due to a number of factors such as: bad attitude, depression+family issues in second year, coming from another country and hanging out with the wrong type of people first year also not knowing what I wanted to study.

If I get mostly A’s from when I transfer, participate in research and get LOR’s from an OK university do I have chance to go to a top uni for MS in engineering?
Note: I’ll probably only have to do engineering classes once I transfer since I would have done everything else at this uni and at CC. I stress too much about all this.

Sorry for the long post! Any advice will be appreciated, thank you.

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I know my math grades aren’t good but that does not reflect my ability only my attitude(which has since changed even though it came back to haunt me for my Linear Algebra Class).

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So what’s the question here? Your grades seem fine to me.

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Well, the university that I’ll probably go to is UIC. My worries are that the b’s in some of my math classes and the going to UIC will stop me from going to a top biomed program even if I do decent research and get strong LOR’s at UIC. Also, I recently I did a CS class and enjoyed it a lot!
I want a career which can allow me to travel and be creative(design apps or devices).
If I do CS
+'ll graduate in 2 years at the uni I’m at
+can get a job without masters
+earn more money(can travel more and at a younger age, I’m also from Africa and want to help my community back home)

  • be involved in something creative
  • might have a job that only benefits the company I work at and not society
    if id biomed
  • be involved and learn about medicine, chemistry and physics deeply which I do have great interest in
  • do a job that results in designing something to help people
  • creative
  • some jobs in biomed industry won’t involve me designing anything which takes away creativity aspect
  • less money(traveling delayed, might not be able to help my community back home)
    -will take 3ish years to complete since I need to transfer then masters as well so I’ll only work when I’m like 25.

I’m sure I sound very immature. I am.
Really need help though! Idk where to go>