<p>I’ve heard that BME is GPA suicide but Duke says 25% of BME graduates go to med school.</p>
<p>Can anyone comment on how BME is for pre-meds? Also, what other paths to Pratt graduates take with a BME degree? And how’s the social life?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It will prepare you well for medical school, but it’s certainly not the easiest path. Having said that, if you succeed, you will demonstrate to medical schools that you can do well with a rigorous curriculum and they will be more likely to accept you. In addition, almost all BMEs conduct research as undergrads, so that also helps your potential med school application. BMEs go on to a wide array of careers and industries:</p>
<p>“After graduation, about one-third of our students enter graduate schools in various engineering or basic science disciplines and one-third are accepted by medical or dental schools. (The rate of acceptance is significantly higher than the national average of all different undergraduate programs.) The rest go to law schools, business schools, industries, or consulting firms.”
[Undergraduate</a> Program | Duke Biomedical Engineering Department](<a href=“http://www.bme.duke.edu/undergrad]Undergraduate”>http://www.bme.duke.edu/undergrad)</p>
<p>I know BMEs who have gone into the medical device industry, med schools, top PhD programs, consulting, software design, finance, business, and more. It’s actually a surprisingly broad curriculum and prepares you for a lot of different things. </p>
<p>As a pre-med BME, you basically just have to add organic chem and also ensure that your upper level life science is med-school approved - that’s about it. No major changes to the curriculum. Having said that, when you’re taking Biomedical Electronic Measurements, Biomechanics, and Differential Equations all at the same time (this is for purely illustrative purposes), having orgo on top of those courses isn’t easy. It’s a lot easier for the psych major to dedicate a lot more time to orgo than the BME major since you’re already taking three time-consuming courses. However, people manage to do it.</p>
<p>The social life varies, just like any other Duke student. I know people who somehow partied a ton as BMEs (joined the Greek system, etc.) and still did well, and others studied all the time. I’d say the engineering school makes Duke a bit “smaller” and more collaborative as you’re working on problem sets in groups all the time and it’s a more tight-knight community. On average, the Duke engineer probably isn’t partying it up as much as Trinity students, but there’s no shortage of opportunities to do so if you choose.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. Good luck!</p>
<p>See this page for more details:
[Why</a> Duke? | Duke Biomedical Engineering Department](<a href=“http://www.bme.duke.edu/undergrad/prospective/why-duke]Why”>http://www.bme.duke.edu/undergrad/prospective/why-duke)</p>