<p>Your student shoudl take whatever she wishes. However, if she takes a real science Bio, she should be prepared to work extremely hard and compete with crazy competitive pre-meds who need college GPA of 3.6+ to apply to med. school, so they absolutely cannot afford less than “A” in frist Bio class as most of them will go on taking much harder classes. There is no “pre-professional, technical training” for them,they go to regular UG’s, including LACs and whatever they wish. Why then not taking engineering to be completely all around educated person? at least engineering classes are not memorization, they are conceptual and should be easier for people with great math backgrounds who love solving problems applying logical thinking.</p>