<p>Hey
I am planning on going to UPENN next year as a transfer student to study Bioengineering.
how is the college life there? Is it manageable to earn A’s there, or would I have to toil to barely scathe by?
Does going to an Ivy school really matter that much? or is it just overrated? I want to go to a med school in the future.</p>
<p>I think you definitely have to work hard to get mostly As. Whether it’s stressful or not depends more on your personality and how you manage it, but I’d say it can be stressful, but healthy stressful. I think going to an Ivy gives you opportunities that are not available at many places, and in this sense I don’t think it’s overrated. This is not to say, of course, that you can’t be successful by studying somewhere else.</p>
<p>Bioengineering isn’t too stressful, but taking orgo, doing research, and trying to maintain almost all As isn’t easy but people do it so it’s obviously doable. Most of the people who barely get by either aren’t toiling away too much or have awful study habits (and Penn has many resources to help you with study stuff). I would say going to Penn opens some doors that you just don’t get at an average state school. Going here won’t make your life set, but it certainly gives you a slight leg up when you enter the real world. There are good ways that Penn helps you get into med school. Not because of the name, but because of the resources (research, hospital, advising, etc.).</p>