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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a pre-med, not engineering, just curious, is goal to have a good backup career option or real interest in both and torn? [/quote]

I do believe that's what OP was thinking/asking before this thread got hijacked. The path to becoming a doctor is so difficult, OP is thinking working as an engineer if becoming a doctor is unattainable. [/quote]

Yep.[/quote]

Well, to answer from my kid’s experience. It’s not a common option at my kid’s Ivy, but school also isn’t known for engineering. That being said, probably one of the easier to make it work though for that reason.

Premed is such a challenging path with so much required outside of difficult classwork. Engineering seems similar in that project teams are such a big deal it seems? It would be very difficult I’d presume and probably guarantee gap years to get required hours completed would be my guess, but I understand the thought process. It’s just difficult to go all-in as needed and choose another difficult major without a lot of overlap in classes or requirements. [/quote]

BME and ChemE majors with good GPAs and MCATs do well in med school admissions.  The AO at med schools know that getting a 3.8 as a BME/ChemE is much more difficult than as a Psychology major with a Spanish minor. [/quote]

Providing you have MCAT to support that. A Psych major with 3.8 GPA/520 MCAT vs BME/ChemE with 3.8/520? I am not sure how much advantage your major will help. [/quote]

It would come down to all the other stuff, quality and amount of clinical, research, leadership, and volunteer hours. I don’t have an engineer, but have one in another very tough major. Wish the rigor was taken into account, but it isn’t. [b]Told them being at a T10 school I’ll be,[/b] not the major chosen.[/quote]

My kid's med school classmates are from all over the places - top tier schools (Ivy, Stanford, Duke...etc.) but also many state Unis. The only big-name schools missing are Princeton, MIT, and Caltech. [/quote]

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