^ although no one “cruises” to a 3.8 in college, even with grade inflation, it’s true it’s MUCH harder to get a med school worthy GPA with an engineering major. In addition, if you can’t get into med school, bioengineering is one of the rare fields where a Master’s degree is required. Finally, biology has very low job prospects and bioengineering is the most competitive major right now beside CS, so finding an alternate major is going to help you tremendously in the safety search.