I am a junior in highschool , americna citizen, living abroad
So basically I want to do finance and go on to investment banking/ wall street
How ever I realize that if I dont come from the top 7 or so target schools my chance of being on wallstreet in pretty much no exsistent.
So my back up plan is double majoring in pre med and electornics engineering. I believe I have the mental intellect to do this but am looking for universities that would allow this.
I basically want to graduate after undergrad and be bale to work as an electoronics engineer and get a degree in premed which would allow me to get into a med school if I feel electornics engineering doesnt pay well ( All my older family members are doctors etc)
Here is my profile
SAT: 1510 M 800 CR 710 W 700 ( old version)
Sat 2 French 800 ( doing physics and math in may and june)
GPA: N/A School doesn’t do GPA
EC’S
-Debating club ( 3 years )
-National Debating team ( competing in international debates all around the world , 3 -5 people are chosen to represent each country WSDC ) 1 time
-French Debating cub ( Founder and president 3 years)
-Model United Nations ( 2 years)
-Running club ( 3 years , president)
Set up a charity that raised over $60,000 to help poor children
-Environmental cub ( 4 years)
Internship at Investment Bank( Top in middle east)
-Internship at Private Equity firm (Top in Middle East)
Intership at REMAX real estate company : 100 hours
Prefect ( some responsibility position in British education system )
Youngest internationally published writer in fitness insudstry ( 9 articles totoal with good feedback)
Bodybuilding hobby
Awards
-International award Silver( Some type of international award where they send you into different countries all over the world to camp and survive http://www.intaward.org/ )
School award of French 9th grade
-School award of Economics 10th grade
Most Valued Participant in ECA’s in my school award
-Best Market Research award by PwC Pin2 Chalenge sponsored by Wharton MENA
-Finalist in PwC pin2 Challnge sponsored by Wharton MENA
Recommendation letters:
One from Head of Economics Department : good one
One from my 10th grade math teacher: should be great
Income: Not requesting financial aid
Which colleges would let me do this. I dont mind even going to a state school if necessary.
Pre med is not a major. There is no degree in “pre-medicine,” and being pre-med simply means you are going to take the necessary bio, chem, and physics classes that would be required to APPLY to medical school. A lot of pre-meds don’t make it to medical school.
Electrical engineering has good pay and good oppurtunities. Why would you think otherwise?
Also, Electrical Engineering is not a good “back-up” major. If you want to be an engineer, do Electrical Engineering, and if you want to work on Wall Street, do finance or economics.
You can major in Engineering or Finance and still be pre-med.
You can apply to medical school with any major. You just need to take all of the pre-med coursework, do well on the MCAT, and complete the required hours of job-shadowing. To determine whether or not it would be possible to be an EE major pre-med, Look at the course requirements for both of those at the website of some of the colleges and universities you are interested in.
For EE and for med school admissions, the college or university you attend doesn’t matter much at all. What will matter will be your GPA.
How long has your family been living outside the US? Have your parents given you a budget for your college expenses yet? Before you get too excited about your options here, sit down with your parents and run the Net Price Calculator at the websites of several of the places that offer ABET accredited EE programs. That will give you all a notion of what your costs might be. http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx
For specific help with your situation as a citizen abroad, contact the counselors at the EducationUSA advising center that is closest to where you live and study. If no one in that office has helped a US citizen recently, they can call on the expertise of colleagues in other locations. https://educationusa.state.gov/find-advising-center
The average EE salary is over 90k. That’s hard to beat without going to a professional school (like med school.)
I’m not sure what kind of classes you took at your high school but I can assure you that electrical engineering is one of the hardest majors in college. Maybe even the hardest. It’s not that you aren’t smart enough, it’s that EE is going to be a very intense major, and you will spend a lot of time studying and doing engineeringing things. Your GPA will suffer unless you devote yourself 100%, meaning you can’t go into EE thinking “this is just a back-up”. And if your GPA suffers, so do your chances of med school acceptance.
As for being pre-med and Finance, all you have to do is take certain bio/chem/physics classes alongside your normal Finance classes. Major doesn’t matter as long as you get those classes in.
Pre-med coursework is (for most medical schools) 2 semesters biology, 2 semesters chemistry (with labs), 2 semesters physics, 1 semester organic chemistry, and 1 semester biochemistry.
40 hours would be a good time to aim for for job shadowing. Also you can volunteer/do research on top of shadowing to better secure admission to med school.
Most people are bogged down by the work from a pre med/ EE major alone. Doing them as a double major would be way overkill, not to mention unnecessary. There is no way electrical engineering skills could benefit you much in the medical field and vice verse. Besides, you would most likely have to spend 5 or 6 years in undergrad due to limitations on credit hours set by most schools, which means you’d be paying a lot more.
Thanks for your comment!
Money to me is not a problem, in terms of financing my education.
Its not that electronics engineering would benefit me in the medical field, it just gives me a back up if I dont get into med school or if I feel I dont want to pursue medicine anymore.
I wouldnt mind spending 5 years for undergrad for 6 seems a bit too much ,
There are a lot of non-engineering majors that would be good back-ups and allow you to graduate on time, like mathmatics. You can go to graduate school for electrical engineering with a degree in math and some pysics classes.