nshah9617

With an Engineering curriculum, the science/math on the MCAT will seem trivial but as the other posters have said, keeping a Med School worthy GPA will be quite difficult.

CH121S

it is possible. The boiE majors at my school actually get the highest MCAT scores out of everyone...so if you can keep that GPA up it def. is possible

Central Perky

If you go to an "easy" school, you definitely can do it. You'll still get a good engineering background because you'll be studying the same stuff as tougher schools.

steevee

Well, you'll be spending your summers on either internships or volunteer work at hospitals, so it's kind of hard to do that. You can skip the internships, but it'll be a bit tougher after graduation if you decide to go down the engineering path.

It is certainly possible, but I wouldn't recommend it.

MiamiDAP

There is no "easy" school for engineering. It does not exist. There is a notion from practicing docs that Biomedical engineering major is viewed as an advantage by Med.schools AdComs. You surely will be prepared above and beyond for the math portion of MCAT and most likely all other sections. You still will have to complete all Medical School requirements and be involved in medical field (volunteering, internship in hospitals, research labs). Another huge advantage, if you do not get to Med. School, you can find relatively good paying and secure position in industry.

Central Perky

^I beg to differ. I know first hand of an "easy" engineering school. I've studied at several schools and I can tell you that this school is easier both relative to the other schools and independently. Of couse, it is a subjective matter...some people might find all the schools impossible.

MiamiDAP

What kind of engineering degree do you have? I am familiar with electrical engineering. You would need very solid and extensive math background for this one. However, there are software "engineers", who have really nothing to do with engineering and it is not clear why they are called engineers, while the proper name would be IT professionals. I agree with you that this is not very hard.

viennariver

If you research average statistics at some schools you can find schools where average engineering GPAs are nearly equivalent to university wide avg GPAs, they do exist. And I can see tremendous benefits to getting a degree in engineering and going to med school.

MiamiDAP

I totally agree that engineering degree has huge advantages. I am not sure that GPA comparison would be an indication that engineering field of study is as difficult as others (business, IT, English majors, etc.) There are a lot of people who started in engineering and realized very quickly that they simply do not have enough math background to continue, particularly in comparison to very many foreign students. So they end up switching to different majors, leaving engineering to people who are well above average students in math and sciences. I have met good number of them in IT profession.

ea2386

As a current 3rd year biomedical engineering student who plans on going to medical school I can say that its very possible and plenty of students do it. I'd say almost half of the people in biomedical engineering at my school plan on going to medical school. The requirements are a part of the curriculum (except for organic chem. which is an optional elective but fits in nicely to the curriculum). The toughest part is maintaining a high gpa. To have an above 3.5 gpa in engineering is hard at any school you go to and you really need something around that to be competitive for medical school. Benefits of engineering (especially BME) are easy access to research which will look good and overall a very very strong background. I feel as though I will be more prepared than most others when I get to med school in terms of being used to the workload and just a stronger problem solving background. I say go for it but only if you're very interested in engineering because you will have to be to make it through it alive!