<p>Just wondering... because I know the gpa will be a big deal.. and EE will hurt it if I end up going to a good engineering school, right? Just wondering what schools you would recommend if someone wants to major in engineering but ultimately apply to med school and study medicine?</p>
<p>Good EE, but with (relatively) high grading? One school comes to mind - Stanford.</p>
<p>1 Stanford<br>
2 MIT<br>
3 Illinois<br>
4 Cal Berkeley<br>
5 Cal Tech<br>
6 Michigan<br>
7 Cornell<br>
8 Purdue<br>
9 Princeton<br>
10 UCLA<br>
11 Southern Cal<br>
12 Carnegie Mellon<br>
13 Georgia Tech<br>
14 Texas<br>
15 Columbia<br>
16 Wisconsin<br>
17 Maryland<br>
18 Minnesota<br>
19 Cal Santa Barbara<br>
20 Cal San Diego </p>
<p>Generally private schools have much better grade inflation than publics.</p>
<p>Here are the top engineering departments, based on research quality. Avoid rankings based on "reputation" or quantity, since they are biased in favor of huge programs such as Purdue. At the undergraduate level, you want to look for quality (and personal attention), not quantity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencewatch.com/nov-dec2002/sw_nov-%5B/url%5D">http://www.sciencewatch.com/nov-dec2002/sw_nov-</a>
dec2002_page2.htm#Engineering</p>
<p>Of the top ten, I would say that students at Caltech, Yale, Harvard and Princeton have the highest success rate getting into the very top medical schools.</p>
<p>Uh... Yale is #1 for engineering? I don't think so. That ranking in no way reflects "research quality." And even if it did, research quality does not reflect quality (as you define it) at undergraduate level and it may actually indicate that a university is more focused on research than teaching its undergraduates. Moreover, I doubt engineers are the type to go seeking small classes with lots of attention and discussions the way liberal arts students do. The majority of the best engineering departments are quite large.</p>
<p>But if you don't care about getting a good engineering education and are more focused on getting into medical school, then Yale would obviously be a better choice than Purdue. However, engineering for premed is a horrible idea in general because medical schools are so focused on GPA.</p>
<p>I strongly disagree. I think you have to look much deeper than the surface premises that "the best engineering departments are large" and that "engineering automatically means you will have a low GPA." There are many ways to approach a field as broad as engineering. The way to do it is to visit the schools extensively, talk with as many students and professors as possible, and not just go by some book that says what the best (which usually means largest anyways, unless you consider a strict quality-based ranking like the one above) departments are. </p>
<p>By the way, if you're so convinced Yale engineering isn't #1 (which it probably isn't, but it is one of the best), you might ask, how come Caltech, Cornell and Stanford are also so highly-ranked in that same study?</p>
<p>Obviously, students shouldn't study engineering just because someone told him or her to or because they think it will look good - but it's best to follow your passions. If it's engineering, again, there is more than one way to do that. </p>
<p>For example, even Swarthmore has a great undergraduate engineering program that could be a good prep for medical school.</p>
<p>The thing is I think I really have the dedication to become a doctor, but I really love circuitry and optics and would love study that in college.... also I think the analytical and critical skills learned through an engineering degree would be essential to a doctor. And about needing a good gpa...I'm just trying to be realistic...</p>
<p>Cornell engineering would not be a great way to boost your gpa. However, I have known several Cornell engineering graduates who went to med school. They say med school is harder in some ways but easier in workload than Cornell engineering. I know a couple Cornell engineers graduating next Sunday who are going to med school and a couple who are still waitlisted.</p>
<p>By the way, if med schools really can't tell the difference between an easy 3.6 and a hard 3.3, then so much the worse for the field of medicine.</p>
<p>lehigh- wonderful engineering school a little easier than some of the above options</p>
<p>Lehigh is a very good choice for engineering.</p>
<p>Cornell is a pressure-cooker - there's a reason everyone says "easiest Ivy to get into, hardest to get out of". The main reason for this is that it is so large. I don't know any Cornell engineering alumni who would recommend it (they'd recommend the other undergrad programs, just not engineering). It's also pretty competitive for pre-med in general. Great school, with superb academics - best Ivy after HYP actually - just probably not the best choice for engineering or premed unless you like hyper-competitive environments.</p>
<p>dont do engineering or you'll never make med school, pick one or the other</p>
<p>that's the painful truth :(</p>
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dont do engineering or you'll never make med school, pick one or the other
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Unless you're way above average at whatever school you end up at. Probably one of those things you really shouldn't count on before you get to college.</p>