I am a sophomore with a chemical engineering undergrad major with an emphasis in biochemistry. I have decided that I want to go to medical school after my undergraduate, however I have a lot of questions, and need advice from people who have experience in this!
1. My GPA is 3.49/4, which isn’t horrible for chemical engineering. However I have heard that GPA is very important on the applications for medical school. How will this be taken into account? Are my chances lowered with this GPA?
2. Chemical engineering is considered one of the hardest majors at my university, and it definitely isn’t a rumor. It’s a very difficult major and it takes up a lot of my time. I am stressed a lot about my classes often, which isn’t anything unusual for me, but I know that I need to be getting in a lot of volunteering and shadowing for medical school applications. Would it benefit me to change my major to biochemistry?? (which I assume would increase my GPA and give me more time to devote to extracurriculars for applications) or is it better to have a lower (but not low) GPA in ChemE?
3. I work as a pharmaceutical technician, and just out of curiosity I was wondering how this would be viewed on a med school application?
4. What are your general “most important things to know” for pre-med students and for the med school application?
Thank you for any help! I truly appreciate your time!
1. My GPA is 3.49/4, which isn’t horrible for chemical engineering. However I have heard that GPA is very important on the applications for medical school. How will this be taken into account? Are my chances lowered with this GPA?
2. Chemical engineering is considered one of the hardest majors at my university, and it definitely isn’t a rumor. It’s a very difficult major and it takes up a lot of my time. I am stressed a lot about my classes often, which isn’t anything unusual for me, but I know that I need to be getting in a lot of volunteering and shadowing for medical school applications. Would it benefit me to change my major to biochemistry?? (which I assume would increase my GPA and give me more time to devote to extracurriculars for applications) or is it better to have a lower (but not low) GPA in ChemE?
3. I work as a pharmaceutical technician, and just out of curiosity I was wondering how this would be viewed on a med school application?
4. What are your general “most important things to know” for pre-med students and for the med school application?
Thank you for any help! I truly appreciate your time!
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