What does it take to be an engineering student?

mikemac
Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:46:09 +0000

When you said “tough to gain acceptance with” were you referring to acceptance to med school or to undergrad?

undergrad. Being admitted as an engineering major often is harder than for other majors.

My Pre Calc teacher told me to follow engineering and no matter what field, follow it with an MBA to increase earning potential so thats why that option is there

No offense to the teachers out there that do their best at what is seldom the best pay, but why would you think this teacher has any useful insight into the working world outside of teaching?

Let’s point out a problem or two with this advice. First, top MBA schools expect students to have real-world job experience prior to entry. Nobody goes from undergrad to Stanford/Penn/Harvard, etc. And by work experience they don’t mean just employment somewhere, they mean a position of increasing responsibility. Not so sure bench engineer is exactly what they want, although of course some engineers go on to get MBAs (I know some that do it via night programs at the local U, a way to signal their engineering employer they want to go into engineering mgmt – not exactly what it sounds like you have in mind).

throughout my college visits, the usual trend I tend to hear is that either Biomed Engineering or Computer Science are the fastest growing majors with the highest starting salary.

Take 5 minutes and google “age discrimination engineering”. Think you’ll still be working after age 50, or is the plan to be rich by then and retire?