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I'm a high school sophomore, and I'm equally interested in the engineering and medical fields. I plan on double majoring in engineering and biology, and then narrowing my choice. My question is, what schools have excellent programs in both engineering and the sciences?

By Sunshine916 (Sunshine916) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 11:18 pm: Edit

Cornell (my personal fave )
Johns Hopkins
Case Western Reserve (if you want to go a *bit* lower in prestige...i think its rated #36 on USNews)

By Selmer (Selmer) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 12:20 am: Edit

Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD

can you tell I live in CA?

By Uncchlocalmayor (Uncchlocalmayor) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 01:04 am: Edit

be prepared to have no social life.

By Chrisd (Chrisd) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 07:03 am: Edit

You might be interested in some of the combined undergrad/medical school programs. RPI I think offers some sort of combined program with a medical school in Albany.

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 01:23 pm: Edit

Rice University, Union College, Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall

By Terpfan101 (Terpfan101) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 01:29 pm: Edit

University of Maryland College Park is also excellent in both of those fields, especially engineering! They are one of the top public schools and top 30 in country. Plus its extremely cheap to go there. Its medical school is also good. My dad went to UMD-CP undergrad majored in psycology and then to UMD med school in Baltimore. He is now a successful neurologist who was recently on national news. Except he was not in debt like other doctors who went to ivies and still making as much money if not more

By Brettbat (Brettbat) on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 02:22 pm: Edit

Instead of a double major, I suggest that you major in biomedical engineering. It is an excellent pre-med curriculum and I heard that BME majors have the highest acceptance rate into med. school. A BME curriculum should stimulate both of your interests without as much work.

By Ariesathena (Ariesathena) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:27 pm: Edit

Tufts has a bachelors/masters in engineering and an M.D. eight-year programme, which is excellent. I believe that the last year is free. Look into similar ones.

Unsolicited advice: There is almost no way you can major in engineering and biology while getting decent grades to get into a med school. Most pre-meds take two or three easy classes while they take organic chemistry (which is the most important for med school); engineers must take four or five other difficult classes. You are *not* graded on your own performance; rather, the tests are designed so that most everyone does poorly, and it is then scaled, with the average being chosen beforehand. That means that you are being graded relative to the rest of the class.

Contrary to what Brettbat heard, someone said that Classics majors have the highest admission rate into med school... not sure if there are different ways to calculate it, but the biomedical engineering idea is good. Unfortunately, med school admissions are so competitive that you're going to have to get excellent grades at any cost.

Good luck!

By Confused2007 (Confused2007) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 06:36 pm: Edit

MIT

By Cornellian07 (Cornellian07) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 11:09 pm: Edit

First of all, I'm going to tell you that doing both engineering and premed is impossible. Doing one of them is hard enough. You will die if you try it. But Cornell is a good school for both of those

By Perplexed1 (Perplexed1) on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 01:42 pm: Edit

What classes do biomedical engineering majors take? I've heard of the major, but I don't know the details...

By Brettbat (Brettbat) on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 07:39 pm: Edit

http://www.bme.vanderbilt.edu/ug_premedical.html

This will provide you with a mock schedule of a BME major with a pre-med curriculum. Hope this helps and maybe will help you have a life in college.

By Techieguy (Techieguy) on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 11:05 pm: Edit

Hey Perplexed. Cornell would be a good choice for your planned majors (someone said that already, heh).

Also, I also plan on majoring in biology and computer science. Is this also too much work?

By Uncchlocalmayor (Uncchlocalmayor) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 10:32 am: Edit

if you enjoy studying all the time...