Sophomore looking for STEM/Bioengineering safety schools

[ucbalumnus]

@sgopal2

Going into a grade deflating major like engineering will make things tough. It won’t be impossible, but just know in advance that you will be facing an uphill struggle. Much more so than the loads of biology majors from grade inflating schools who cruise towards a 3.8.

@MYOS1634

^ 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.

According to http://www.gradeinflation.com/tcr2010grading.pdf (figure 3 on page 4), natural sciences (of which biology is the largest category) tended to have slightly lower grades than engineering as of around 2006.

However, engineering major requirements tend to be more voluminous than the natural sciences major requirements, so there may be less ability to cherry-pick elective GPA-boosting courses for engineering majors than natural science majors.