<p>Is it difficult to maintain a good GPA at Duke while doing Biomedical Engineering in hopes of applying for Medical School?
And if you transfer an AP, do you get credit for the class? Do you get a grade?</p>
<p>^ Did you happen to click on a wrong sub-forum by accident? Why do you ask a question about Duke at Yale’s sub-forum? I am confused.</p>
<p>In case you are curious about Yale’s BME though: Yale has a BME major also. I have an impression that it is a relatively smaller department. Also, at Yale, AP is basically “useless” because you get neither credits nor grades, unless you graduate early. AP is just for the placement purpose, in the sense that it helps place you in higher level classes. Few choose to graduate early anyway, as Medical Schools do not like applicants who are too young/immature/no-life-experience/only-good-at-sciences/engineering.</p>
<p>I personally find it somewhat funny that many CCers ask how likely they can major in engineering but still maintain very good grades. (of course, it is still doable.) As one CCer said before: You can not have the cake and eat it too.</p>
<p>I may be off here, but I think that the OP is asking if he/she can get into Yale Med by going to Duke for BME. </p>
<p>Duke’s BME is a top 5 program, so it will be hard. I just happened to talk to a current Duke students that has a BME/pre-med roommate, and she’s doing quite well. Her roommate is quite brilliant, and she does most of her work in the classroom and has little course flexibility. </p>
<p>BME is a hard major with lots of requirements, so if you’re willing to work hard for 4 years, do the necessary ECs, get a very high GPA, and receive excellent MCAT scores, then you have done all you can to get into Yale Med. Best wishes! :)</p>
<p>Hi big dreamer, I think you have a good educated guess here. But I still could not understand why s/he would ask such questions (see the quote below) on a Yale-related forum:</p>
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<p>How would Yale students/alumni/parents know whether Duke undergraduate will give Duke students credits/grades for AP?</p>
<p>It’s certainly not going to be “easy”, but the difficulty depends on you. It can be manageable, or severely tedious depending on the type of student you are and are willing to be.</p>
<p>^^mcat2, I totally agree!</p>
<p>BTW to the OP: I think that Pratt (Duke) transfers AP credits, so yes you can get out of intro courses at Duke if you’re majoring in BME. You do not get a “grade” (at least that’s what I think) for your AP course, just placement into a harder class.</p>
<p>I meant Duke BME and then Yale’s Medical School.
Thanks for the help.</p>