<p>Biotech is much harder to get in than BioE premed – if you don’t get into premed, there’s definitely no way to get into Biotech.</p>
<p>With BioE premed, they don’t screen you at the prospective student level – instead, they screen you by making you maintain a 3.0 GPA within a subset of engineering-related classes (calc, programming, chem, physics, etc.). So, a lot more people get accepted into UCSD as BioE premed rather than BioE or BioE Biotech, but about 50% of the BioE premeds either drop or don’t make the 3.0 cut.</p>
<p>I would think you would have put Biotech as your first choice and BioE premed as your second, because (if I remember correctly) the application stated that if you chose BioE or Biotech, then you had to have a second, non-impacted choice.</p>