Best Engineering Major for a Premed

california_love8
Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:20:33 +0000

Hi,

As many of you probably know, premed prereqs are intense (if you didn’t, now you know). Many people in fact recommend not going into engineering because it is very difficult to maintain a high GPA in it, but I think that I want to just because its a great backup plan in case medical school doesn’t work out my first couple tries, and I’ll have an excellent background in the sciences.

I am mainly interested in Computer/Electrical Engineering (becuase I like learn about computers, programming, etc), Mechanical Engineering (primarly because I think it would be fun to work for mercedes or BMW especially with employee discounts on their cars :p), or Aerospace Engineering (who doesn’t want to say, “yeah my job actually is rocket science”). I also probably know that your thinking, "the answer is obvious: Biomedical Engineering! But honestly, I don’t think I would like to get into that field because there is virtually no money in it unless you get very lucky (and I never play against percentages. Also, as a side note, to me, only 150k-200k is a decent salary). So out of those 3, and even others, what might be the best choice for a premed given rigor, and salary potential/job security?

thanks in advance