Harvard vs Stanford for Biology/BME premed

2prepMom
Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:01:07 +0000

Stanford has many biology options, check out human biology (probably the most popular pre-med major), which has areas of emphasis like immunology, public health, epidemiology, molecular genetics, and others; bioengineering (not biomedical engineering, bioengineering is more like applied molecular genetics), regular BME and biology are also popular, and other interesting interdisciplinary majors that can fit well for pre-meds, like science technology and society (with molecular genetics emphasis) or history of science (with medical emphasis). Those offer a nice balance of social sciences and pre-med requirements that meet major requirements. Many other pre-meds are in chemical engineering or computer sciences or humanities.

Your other questions about research, quality of life etc. are probably hard to answer because they depend a lot on you as an individual, your priorities, and your goals. pre MD is pretty different from pre MDPhD for example.