Help Choosing a Major at Alabama

mom2collegekids
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:43:55 +0000

SEA_Tide is right…declare some sort of engineering now, so that at least you’ll get the 2500. If you were to do that later, you woudnt get it.

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How common is it to prepare for medical school while completing an engineering degree? What engineering degrees would be most useful to pursue a career in biomedical engineering?
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It is becoming more common, but doing so comes with a warning. An Engineering major is arguably the most difficult major, so getting a high GPA (needed for med school) can be more of challenge.

My own son was a Chemical Eng/g major at Bama and is now in med school. many ChemE majors at Bama are premed.

for biomedE grad school, the best undergrad majors are ChemE or MechE.

If you do decide med school, I recommend using the AP Bio II credit because that class is often boring and can challenge your GPA and isnt needed for MCAT prep (that class is about plants). You can replace that med school req’t with a higher level Bio class with a lab that is more relevant to you.

My son actually used his Bio I and II, and Chem I and II AP credits and replaced them with higher level classes for premed reqts, but I wouldnt recommend that.