What is the biology program like at UMBC?

bbianchetti
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:40:58 +0000

My friend (freshman at UMBC) is majoring in biology. I am also majoring in bio so I recently talked to him about the program. He said its rigorous and extremely difficult; however, the educational quality is outstanding.

Another one of my friends, who is also a freshman at UMBC majors in engineering but knows a great deal about the biology program. This is what he said “Biology at UMBC is very good. Its hard because its GOOD” He also said that their pre-med program is very competitive.

After speaking to both of them, I am nervous about majoring in biology at UMBC. I always considered them really smart since they did amazing on SATs and had a high GPA throughout high school. If they think the bio program is hard, I feel like Im going to be stressed throughout college and have little social life.