Serious Dilema Bio-Med

JamesH5353
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:13:37 +0000

I’m replying to myself, which is probably bad message board tact, but anyway…

when i called UCSD, the women in the BioE department said that switching into the BioE: Biotech is not allowed, and that students can only be admitted from High School, but on their website I found information saying that transfer students can be admitted?

http://admissions.ucsd.edu/dev3/info/um.html#impactpre (scroll down to the bottom and look for “transfer applicants” in bold)

Would they put a transfer student who wants to get into BioE: Biotech over a student already at UCSD who wants to switch majors to BioE: Biotech… especially when that student is already a BioE: Pre-med student? I have also checked out the curriculum and switching wouldn’t be critical until junior year, because from what i can gather, the curriculum is almost identical in both BioE pre med and BioE Biotech up until junior year. This gives me time to build up a strong basis not only for the academics of my major switch, but also to back up my argument…

Thanks again all