Any pre-med Engineers here??

ariesathena
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:35:37 +0000

Engineers can make excellent doctors.

They just tend to have really low GPAs and therefore are at a disadvantage in med school applications. Even in the sciences, they can be out-gunned by sociology pre-meds who have nothing else to do besides orgo, orgo, and more orgo. Engineers tend to take those classes alongside really challenging courses and cannot devote as much time to them.

If you insist on doing engineering and pre-med, here is the helpful part of my post:
*Do as much as you can over the summer. If you can take organic chem (the most important class for med school) over the summer and devote all of your energy to it, you’ll be in much better shape.
*Don’t kill yourself - space out the engineering courses over four years.
*Don’t get too excited about APing out of stuff - better to take the A in physics and chem and than to AP out and get a B in higher-level courses.
*If possible, do a post-bac programme; do engineering, then, when you graduate, take the pre-med courses that you haven’t seen yet. (You’ll need two physics, two general chem, two organic chem, and two bio.) That way, you can take them as a much more mature, efficient, and not quite as overworked student.