<p>"Lets be honest, if you get trying to get med school, your fallback plan is not going to be engineering. " - Why not? Lots are going to BM engineering and one Adcom rep. in one of info sessions has mentioned that Med. Schools adcoms actually favor BM engineers. The most researchers are immigrants because their k-12 education is much stronger with much stronger backgound in math and sciences which allow anybody (not just selected best few) to pursue any science/engineering degree in college, while lots of american college kids fall short in their background in these areas and fall out of science/ engineering majors.</p>