<p>So I just transferred to Albion College. I graduated high school last year and attended a community college first. While here I’m finding that although I like it a lot, a lot of things are dissatisfying me-- Small boring town, lack of much diversity throughout the student body, not much prestige, being a small regionally focused liberal arts school. I guess they’re topical concerns. But it’s leading me to start to want to, if not transfer, take up the school on its 3/2 engineering program. I finish up the majority of a BA here in whatever subject I want (I’m pretty set on Biology) for three years, then head off to an affiliated school (Albion has admissions agreements for the program with Columbia, UMich, Case Western and a few others) where I can get a BS in Biomedical Engineering for two years. And this really appeals to me. But I’m trying to decide if I’d do this just for a bigger named school/environment or if I really want to pursue BiomedE as a premed major for my own knowledge. But along that track, I feel I’d be neglecting all the humanities (philosophy, literature, and history) I’d be able to do here at Albion in four years… despite then having a degree from a pretty no name school.</p>
<p>I don’t know. This has been on my mind a lot and it’s all kind of bothering me. Any objective thoughts, gang?</p>
<p>You have to decide what’s more important: having the prestigious name on your biomed engineering degree and the academic and social environment that university will provide or having an eclectic courseload where you can explore other interests. </p>
<p>It’s up to you, and I don’t think any of us can say what you should do - only what we would do if we were in your shoes, which doesn’t really matter. Either way, you just have to take some time to really think about what you want to be doing for the next few years and then go with it.</p>
<p>If you want my opinon…one engineer to another: **** the humanities! Hahahahahaha!!!</p>
<p>Sorry, I love math and science, I really dislike the humanities, so you know which road I’d be going down…the more prestigious name on the degree.</p>
<p>In reality though, all kidding aside, having a more prestigious name on the degree is MUCH better in the job world than the no-name school. You will be hired by more companies, you will probably have a higher salary, and the tasks you do at the company might be more fun/interesting.</p>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>I believe most technical/engineering colleges offer humanities. The only difference between a technical/engineering school and a liberal arts school, is that the engineering schools’ humanities classes are usually less intense as the liberal arts schools. This is a good thing because you’re really there to study engineering, you don’t need a humanity course getting in the way of that, yet you can still study them and enjoy what they have to offer.</p>