<p>The issue is, as a freshman engineer, you would have to take some different, and harder, courses freshman year than many would take if they were premed in a different college there.(Or at Tufts CAS). You would have to take calculus for engineers, physics for engineers, and IIRC a relatively hard and time consuming computer class (at least in my day). Whereas most premeds would be taking no computer class at all, and different, and easier, versions of those math and physics courses. And they wouldn’t be taking them all freshman year, when they were also trying to do their hard Bio courses. Actually I’'ve read CC posts where a couple premed types seemed to be taking physics elsewhere, over the summer. An option that an engineer wouldn’t have, obviously.</p>
<p>I don’t see how these can be avoided while you are an engineering college student, even if you transfer at the earliest possible point. And I do not know that transfer, while maybe probable, can be absolutely assured, actually.</p>