Match Me: Hispanic Female STEM

ucbalumnus
Sun, 07 Nov 2021 16:06:46 +0000

MrkInMerrick:

School seeking: Strong and broad STEM programs. Interests are pre-Med or Engineering.

A few things to consider:

1. Pre-med can be done with any major, but fitting in the pre-med courses around most types of engineering (other than biomedical and maybe chemical) would be a crowded schedule.

2. Engineering majors typically require careful attention to starting course sequences early, so that students who decide on engineering late may have to catch up and need extra semesters to graduate.

3. At many larger universities, students wanting to do engineering apply to the engineering division, which may be more selective.

4. Pre-med is a highly competitive weed-out process; most frosh pre-meds do not get to the point of applying to medical school, while only 40% of those who apply to US MD schools get any admissions.

5. In general, engineering will be a greater constraint on college selection, since its availability is more limited than pre-med courses, which are available at most reasonable colleges.

State of residency? What your in-state publics are can matter in terms of admission safeties and costs.