<p>4everyoung: no, if you want to do tissue engineering then stay in BME and take molecular bio and genetics as electives. BME courses are much more hierarchical in their prerequisite requirements than many trinity courses. That means advanced courses almost always require lower level BME courses which themselves would required basic courses like math, physics, etc. If you switch into a major like Bio, it’s highly doubtful whether you’ll have the time to take all those prerequisites that you need to take the truly interesting higher level BME courses while at the same time satisfying your trinity requirements. </p>
<p>Also, many advanced BME courses are small courses with rigid enrollment caps. I would think that preference will always be given to BME majors who invariably fill them up (because they actually need them to graduate). As a side note, I think one reason for that is the BME department tightly controls the number of available slots so that there are just enough for the BME majors who need them. </p>
<p>As for AP credits during the transfer, you won’t be able to count them as credits toward graduation. However, you are always allowed to use them as placement regardless of how many AP exams you’ve taken, this is true both in pratt and trinity. </p>
<p>boomshakalaka: just because there are BME professors doing research in a certain area, it doesn’t mean that it’s covered in the undergraduate BME curriculum. A good example is the photonics institute. While a very large center in the BME department, up until recently, photonics and optics is really only covered in one or two electives or design courses that aren’t even offered every semester. In fact, at the higher course levels (and even some intermediate levels), the content offerings are completely dependent on which professors are available (or slotted) that semester to teach classes. Every professor will try to insert different topics from his/her own field into their assigned course. </p>
<p>I would recommend that if you like what a certain professor is doing, then email them and offer to work in their lab as a research assistant. I knew plenty of trinity students who did research with Pratt professors. That way, you can dive right into stuff that interest you instead of slogging through a BME curriculum that you potentially might not even like.</p>