<p>I don’t disagree with SBR, but have a slightly different take. Frankly, it’s easier to switch from Pratt to Trinity, so if you think you might have an interest in Pratt, I’d recommend enrolling in it. It’s difficult for a high school student to really accurately gauge if he/she is going to enjoy engineering since the vast majority of high schools don’t offer any experience in engineering. Freshman year take EGR 53 first semester and one BME course second semester (like BME 83 or something). If you like them, stick with BME. If you don’t, transfer to Trinity. You only “waste” two courses that way and can easily make it up. The math/bio/chem/writing courses you’d also take freshman year will still be helpful to get a bio degree and are part of the bio curriculum (unless I guess it’s math 103 or higher, but still doesn’t hurt to take them). If you realize after first semester you don’t want to be in Pratt, you can neglect pratt’s requirements and only take your bio courses second semester (although you can’t officially transfer until the end of the year, but it doesn’t affect your course selections).</p>
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<p>Anything is possible as there are no rigid rules. I’d say it’s definitely easier to get a research position with a Pratt professor if you’re in Pratt, which makes logical sense. I don’t think they keep stats on such items, but I do know that something like 75% of undergrads in Pratt conduct research. Trinity is WAY lower than that (but history majors typically don’t get to conduct research as undergrads so it’s skewed 
). I was in a BME professor’s lab that had one undergrad chem student (although he got kicked out of the lab later…long story) and one biochem PhD student. So, out of the 12 or so people, 10 were BME.</p>
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<p>[EGR</a> 53L](<a href=“http://www.duke.edu/~mrg/EGR53S11/overview.html]EGR”>http://www.duke.edu/~mrg/EGR53S11/overview.html)</p>
<p>No, you can’t take it pass/fail. If you definitely want to switch out of engineering, there’s no point to take it at all (you’re not forced to). </p>
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<p>You can start taking courses in Trinity/bio curriculum first semester if you want. You’re not forced to take any classes you don’t want to. Nobody is holding your hand or watching over your shoulder looking at what classes you are enrolling in. You can sign up for what you want. Although you might have to explain it to your academic advisor, but he/she usually isn’t that involved at the onset so they shouldn’t care much.</p>