<p>Hey, (title is a error should be pre med and engineering)</p>
<p>I am an incoming freshman and i had a few questions.</p>
<p>1st i am currently in L&S and have been wanting to switch to COE. Is this at all possible?</p>
<p>2nd I am considering the pre med route. However i have a color deficiency which makes it hard for me to distinguish colors such as green and red and purple and blue. No I am not completely color blind. I can distinguish most colors just fine and even colors like red and green. The problem i have is if colors are very similar shades, such as purple and blue. Will this have negative effects as i pursue the pre med path?</p>
<p>Thank you all in advance</p>
<p>@First - Yes, though given your second question I would not recommend it.
@Second - I doubt it.</p>
<p>Haha, I thought you were telling him not to be be an engineer because he’s somewhat color blind.</p>
<p>You might suck at litmus tests because of it, but that’s about it. But reiterating the above, pre-med and engineering are like water and oil: they just don’t mix. And if you want it to mix, you’re going to have to put a lot of work in to unify the two.</p>
<p>I suppose if you are switching to CoE then are you switching to BioE since you are a pre-md?</p>
<p>well, aren’t there different types of med schools? like one type is focused more on medical research, while one is more for those who want to be a doctor, although you can choose either path- research or doctor after either med school. So, basically, if you do bioE, you could go to a research-based med school and then potentially engineer devices that would be used inside the body (heart, stomach, etc), right?</p>
<p>It’s not so much that there are different types of med schools as it is that there are lots of things you can do with an M.D., and some of them are engineering-esque things that you’ll been seen as more qualified for if you have a background in engineering as well.</p>
<p>That said, the M.D. side is almost certainly a LOT more important, and most of the “top-tier” med schools (ultimately a reputation thing - there’s no such thing as a “bad” accredited med school) have considerable engineering opportunities either built-in or as part of their parent universities. Taking the easier path to getting into one of those would probably be better for your chances and sanity than going into CoE for undergrad (the exchange being that with CoE undergrad you have more backup options if you change your mind or don’t actually get in anywhere for med…both things that will probably be more likely if you’re in CoE, but still).</p>