<p>alot of schools bioengineering program is not ABET accredited ie Stanford</p>
<p>wait a minute, bioengineering-pre-medical is really hard? what do you mean? is there like hw to be done every single night? would i not get enough sleep? i guess i'm doomed then.</p>
<p>i believe they have the highest percentage of major changes</p>
<p>Bioengineering:xxx is hard. Whether it is straight Bioengineering or Pre-Medical. Did people not pay attention to the fact UCSD's Bioengineering department is one of the best in the world. Do you think this is because they go lax on their students?</p>
<p>The work/homework load will be depedant on your individual capability. You don't even start with intense bioe work until your third year. A lot of people drop out of Pre-Medical because they don't get the 3.0 required to continue in the major.</p>
<p>LOL. I believe any major that doesn't require you to read tons of pages is pretty easy... (i.e. any science or math)</p>
<p>um i believe bio majors have a LOT of reading to do. it's just that a lot of them choose not to read.</p>
<p>Science/Math classes have the most reading I would bet (Outside of humanities/writing). You have to read one or two chapters a week. And not just read it, but understand it. In high school you had the class time to understand the material. Whereas in college you will have to do that aspect by yourself.</p>
<p>I remember one organic chemistry lecture where the professor talked about extraction, and only extraction for some reason. Extraction was maybe just one page of the 40 that had to be read. And if you didn't read the other 39 pages, you were screwed.</p>
<p>40 pages a week?</p>
<p>Sometimes more, sometimes less. This is college, not high school. You either have to adjust to the fast paced system, or suffer. Your choice.</p>
<p>The textbooks are like the AP Biology textbooks right?</p>
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don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Then, what about Chemistry?</p>
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<p>talk after you've gotten your degree...</p>
<p>Molecular Biology...</p>
<p>EE, CompE/CS, BioE, ChemE</p>
<p>EE is ridiculous. Not only is it conceptually just a difficult subject to tackle, there are tons of labs. The couple EE lab classes I, as a CS major, have taken were horrible. It's not my bias that has me place EE as the most difficult major; My roommate is studying EE.</p>
<p>CompE/CS is effing hard. You know the story. 72 hour programming marathons, locking yourself up in the computer lab for days on end. Yeah. They're all true.</p>
<p>I've known more BioE majors to switch out than any other. It looks like you take all these difficult Bio/Chem classes.... as well as all these difficult engineering classes. A beastly combo.</p>
<p>ChemE. I don't know anyone taking ChemE, but i figure it's ****ing terrible since Chem is hard, and adding "engineering" to something automatically adds a few sleepless nights a week.</p>
<p>These 72 hour programming marathons...how often are they?</p>
<p>Does any1 have the % of people dropping out of those "hard" majors ?</p>
<p>Does that mean BioE:Premedical is just a plain stupid choice? Since it's not accredited, and the requirements are so much harder than the usual bio/chem majors. But, why are there so many people who's in that major? I remember seeing it somewhere that about 200ish people are in bioE: Premed, but only 50ish are in bioE: bioinformatics.</p>
<p>Just because it is not credited, does not make it a stupid major. You still learn the concepts and theories of bioengineering. It is more specified than regular Bioengineering, though. Bioinformatics is also pretty specified, so I could see why people might not want to take it.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with how easy or hard the major is. It has to do with what you want to study. Do you want to study bioengineering? Do you want to study a specified version of it? Do you want to study just biology or chemistry? Don't read just the major name, read the classes you have to take.</p>
<p>Accreditation really matters the most if you want to go want to work in industry straight out of college. If you plan on getting any sort of graduate degree, then it really does not matter that much if it's accredited, since your research is what matters in that area. Obviously if you get a professional degree (MD, MBA, JD) it makes no difference, since you won't be practicing as an engineer. And anyway, I know you can petition certain engineering classes in place of some of the biology classes if you are a bioeng: pre-med.<br>
But like roflkeke implied, major in something you really think you'll enjoy, not something that you think sounds cool or will give you a better edge....</p>