<p>Would that masters also help out at all in consulting?</p>
<p>Dude - stay at Penn and get your MS. You have a great situation at a great school - no need to second guess it. If you really want to pursue an uncommon sub-specialty once you get deep into your technical courses, you may have to find a mentor at some other school for your MS, but not likely to happen.</p>
<p>Skip the MBA. It’s good to “know” business practices, but 2 years off of engineering would do more harm to your technical career than it is worth. To be a consultant you need technical excellence and the ability to speak to a room full of critics while maintaining your composure.</p>
<p>Thank you, and just to throw it out there, would it be a good decision to do this masters, if I ever wanted to apply pre-med?</p>
<p>If you want to keep an option for med school, make sure your humanities and social science classes are among the approved pre-med courses and keep up your grades. You will need extra biology classes. You will not need an MS in engineering.</p>
<p>I know several successful Drs who were engineering undergrads.</p>
<p>However, if I do my masters, would it seem possible to appeal to a med school, if I did something with biotechnology/drugs, so it seems like I want a pharmacology interest? I would be able to do bio classes easier this way.</p>
<p>Apply to both and see how you fare. Make the choice from there.</p>
<p>I would stay and do your masters at penn. If you go to another school you will have two years and 36000 or more in tuition for your masters.</p>
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<p>I don’t mean to sound full of myself, but I am guaranteed a significant chance of doing the masters; the main concern being if I should go with it or just simply apply med school without going for it.</p>
<p>Apply for both. Decide from there.</p>
<p>But when for med school?</p>