Bioengineers...and SCIENCE LOR's

[ch0sen1]

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Today I had a meeting with a premed advisor, telling me that bioengineering courses (such as human physiology for engineers, biomolecular engineering, etc..) cannot count towards your science letter of recommendations. It has to be either from biology, physics, or chemistry department.

Is this true? If it is....LAME!!!!

 

[confusedchild]

In my opinion, it really depends. Some schools are more strict than others. When you're submitting your letters, contact the school or something and make sure. I'm an electrical engineering major and so was my brother who used three EE professors as his science letters and he has received numerous interviews. I think if the courses in which they taught you can be classified as BCPM then you're fine. My science letters are...

1 from biology lecturer
1 from EE prof who taught me in electromagnetics... class was called "Physics II Elec Engring" and will be classified as BCPM
1 from EE prof who taught me in a signal processing course, can't be count as BCPM, but I'm sure most schools will take it...I think they know that although engineering isn't technically BCPM, it requires knowledge from BCPM to succeed
1 from Civil Engring professor, a statics and dynamics class - so pretty much mechanics on crack -> also can be considered BCPM

So, play around with the system a bit. For courses that are engineering that you get approved by AMCAS as BCPM, there's no reason why they won't take letters from those profs. And even if they aren't (in the case of my brother's 3 letters), most schools will still take it in my opinion.

 

[Podalarius]

My one science letter of recommendation was from an engineering professor (for a course I counted as BCPM), but I got a committee letter, so I don't know if the rules are the same for that. Good luck - engineering majors everywhere seem to have to do a bit of negotiating to get their application in order, but we seem to do well enough in the application process.

 

[JackInTheBox]

Today I had a meeting with a premed advisor, telling me that bioengineering courses (such as human physiology for engineers, biomolecular engineering, etc..) cannot count towards your science letter of recommendations. It has to be either from biology, physics, or chemistry department.

Is this true? If it is....LAME!!!!

My two science letters were from bioengineering faculty who taught classes that didn't count toward my BCPM GPA, and I didn't have a problem at any of the schools to which I applied.