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mauberley said:
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Whatyousay said:
BMEN, you're in the BME program @ A&M, right?

Would you say the curriculum there is harder than the other engineering departments?
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Hmm It depends. Compared to the other engineering departments here, overall its not as weed-y outing. By junior year they’ve weeded out every one and the grade spread is >40% A’s , >40% B’s and rest C’s. I know the MechE program here will still weed out until the very end of the curriculum. My guess its because the BME program here is still so small they want retention. For example, we started off at 200 students. The core engineering courses weeded out the numbers to 70. Then sophomore year weeded this down to 60ish. We are still at about that number but in our area specific courses we have 5-20 students. With an average of around 12. With the required classes we still have all 60 I think.

However, it is rigorous in a sense that sophomore year is death by course ADD. Comp Sci courses with EE courses, with Graduate Physio courses along with the BME courses makes it hard to concentrate on one thing. In addition, our courses are only offered on certain semester. So lets say you miss the opportunity to take the required electronic course, well too bad. You have to wait a whole year to have a chance to take it again. This means that we end up piling on the credits to go for an average of 17 hours per semester. Compound that with pre-med requirements and it’s a recipe for trouble(BIOL isn’t needed for the curriculum. We just take physio). So to graduate in four years or do professional school, AP credit is almost required. I came in with 49 hours from AP and CC so that helped.

Compared to other institutions, I love the curriculum here. There isn’t really a strong research area on one thing. It has everything from biomechanics, imaging, lab on a chip, tissue engineering, and cell/molecular mechanics. Other schools have a strong preference to other areas. Like UT, there is no biomechanics concentration or in the curriculum for that matter. That didn’t appeal to me. The broad curriculum here lets you choose a track to specialize in for 1.5 semesters and stick with it.
 
BMEN said:
Hmm It depends. Compared to the other engineering departments here, overall its not as weed-y outing. By junior year they’ve weeded out every one and the grade spread is >40% A’s , >40% B’s and rest C’s. I know the MechE program here will still weed out until the very end of the curriculum. My guess its because the BME program here is still so small they want retention. For example, we started off at 200 students. The core engineering courses weeded out the numbers to 70. Then sophomore year weeded this down to 60ish. We are still at about that number but in our area specific courses we have 5-20 students. With an average of around 12. With the required classes we still have all 60 I think.

However, it is rigorous in a sense that sophomore year is death by course ADD. Comp Sci courses with EE courses, with Graduate Physio courses along with the BME courses makes it hard to concentrate on one thing. In addition, our courses are only offered on certain semester. So lets say you miss the opportunity to take the required electronic course, well too bad. You have to wait a whole year to have a chance to take it again. This means that we end up piling on the credits to go for an average of 17 hours per semester. Compound that with pre-med requirements and it’s a recipe for trouble(BIOL isn’t needed for the curriculum. We just take physio). So to graduate in four years or do professional school, AP credit is almost required. I came in with 49 hours from AP and CC so that helped.

Compared to other institutions, I love the curriculum here. There isn’t really a strong research area on one thing. It has everything from biomechanics, imaging, lab on a chip, tissue engineering, and cell/molecular mechanics. Other schools have a strong preference to other areas. Like UT, there is no biomechanics concentration or in the curriculum for that matter. That didn’t appeal to me. The broad curriculum here lets you choose a track to specialize in for 1.5 semesters and stick with it.
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Yeah, I think the BME tracks at UT are a lot more CS/EE/ChemE oriented. That being said, it sounds like the programs at both schools share a lot in common.

(personally, I still think BME is pseudo-engineering, but I'm not complaining :laugh:)
 
Whatyousay said:
Yeah, I think the BME tracks at UT are a lot more CS/EE/ChemE oriented. That being said, it sounds like the programs at both schools share a lot in common.

(personally, I still think BME is pseudo-engineering, but I'm not complaining :laugh:)
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The one at UT isso Chem E/Bioinformatics/Molecular based its ridiculous. That program I dont really consider engineering. It is what i consider, super applied Chem E or Biochemistry on steroids.

Ours though i do consider MechE. If I compare our curriculum to the Mech E curriculum here, its almost the exact same. Solid Mechanics, Material Science, Controls Course, Required EE course, Fluid Dynamics, Thermo/heat transfer in the Mech E Sense.The only difference is, since our curriculum is so broad in our small field, we get to choose if we go an engineering route(Device Design/Mechanics, or the science route(Tissue/Biomaterials).

Additionally device design courses, FDA regulation courses, and the plethora of mechanics courses here, make it engineering.They really push for a lot of the graduates to either go into the device industry or graduate program.
 
BMEN said:
The one at UT isso Chem E/Bioinformatics/Molecular based its ridiculous. That program I dont really consider engineering. It is what i consider, super applied Chem E or Biochemistry on steroids.

Ours though i do consider MechE. If I compare our curriculum to the Mech E curriculum here, its almost the exact same. Solid Mechanics, Material Science, Controls Course, Required EE course, Fluid Dynamics, Thermo/heat transfer in the Mech E Sense.The only difference is, since our curriculum is so broad in our small field, we get to choose if we go an engineering route(Device Design/Mechanics, or the science route(Tissue/Biomaterials).

Additionally device design courses, FDA regulation courses, and the plethora of mechanics courses here, make it engineering.They really push for a lot of the graduates to either go into the device industry or graduate program.
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You know, it's kind of strange that our curriculum is set up the way it is, because our former dean was a MechE.
 
Whatyousay said:
You know, it's kind of strange that our curriculum is set up the way it is, because our former dean was a MechE.
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Guess the faculty interest and research didn't really coincide with that area. Rice is the same way too.
 
Buttermellow said:
Ugh, I can't stand to read one more "I scored 4 points higher than my best practice test!" comment.
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Don't let their good work get you down. You did great on your MCAT! Celebrate the fact that you are done! Their scores aren't going to affect your acceptances.
 
rgrell said:
Don't let their good work get you down. You did great on your MCAT! Celebrate the fact that you are done! Their scores aren't going to affect your acceptances.
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Thanks. Very true, their scores have nothing to do with me. If I were in their place, I would be celebrating my ass off!
 
Buttermellow said:
Ugh, I can't stand to read one more "I scored 4 points higher than my best practice test!" comment.
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You have nothing to worry about my dear. Your kick ass GPA and rest of your app will make up for your MCAT grade(which is still good for a lot of schools).

My GPA is the one thats making me squirm and jump through more hoops :laugh:
 
Buttermellow said:
Thanks. Very true, their scores have nothing to do with me. If I were in their place, I would be celebrating my ass off!
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That and the only people who post are the ones that did really well anyway. Or the one who are lying lol
 
BWSTW said:
I don't know anybody irl who scored as high as people here on SDN.
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Neither do I. And when i look at our pre med advising stats for people entering med schools from my uni, its like hey im comparable.
 
BMEN said:
Neither do I. And when i look at our pre med advising stats for people entering med schools from my uni, its like hey im comparable.
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Yeah, that's why I'm not too worried about my score. I mean, I'm not jumping up and down about it, but I'm ok with it. 🙂
 
I am average. I've always been average and probably always will be. lol
 
BMEN said:
You have nothing to worry about my dear. Your kick ass GPA and rest of your app will make up for your MCAT grade(which is still good for a lot of schools).

My GPA is the one thats making me squirm and jump through more hoops :laugh:
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Hopefully they'll be more forgiving since you're an engineering major!
 
BMEN said:
Neither do I. And when i look at our pre med advising stats for people entering med schools from my uni, its like hey im comparable.
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I actually don't know the scores of a lot of other people who took the mcat. I know of a 24, 27, and a 38 (!). But that 38 guy was always a genius.
 
Buttermellow said:
I actually don't know the scores of a lot of other people who took the mcat. I know of a 24, 27, and a 38 (!). But that 38 guy was always a genius.
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I don't know the exact scores of my friends, but they were in the 29-33 range by the way they sounded.
 
Just to chip in- the highest MCAT I know IRL is a 34 (two people). Other than myself, no one else I know from school or wherever got a 30+.
 
A bunch of my friends scored in the 27-33 range... but my two best friends scored... 39 and 41.

I think that's partly why I rewrote my 30... that and the 8 in PS was burying me.

But that 30 would have gotten me in somewhere. Sucks when your friends are smart.
 
CodeBlu said:
A bunch of my friends scored in the 27-33 range... but my two best friends scored... 39 and 41.

I think that's partly why I rewrote my 30... that and the 8 in PS was burying me.

But that 30 would have gotten me in somewhere. Sucks when your friends are smart.
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Wow! I try and surround myself with people less smart than me 🙂
 
WashU and Creighton have taken in my addendum. Now waiting for BAylor and Tulane to email me back...
 
BMEN said:
Thats what i have been praying to Applos, god of medical school applications, about. :laugh:
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:laugh: The Classics geek in me originally thought you meant to say Apollo (who is the god of medicine among other things...)
 
mauberley said:
As a fellow engineering major, I wish you godspeed.
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Thanks. I'll need it :laugh:

I read your MD App and your work stuff sounded awesome. I worked with cardiac MRI and CT's for modeling so i know how hard it can be to get everything working
 
minerva3121 said:
:laugh: The Classics geek in me originally thought you meant to say Apollo (who is the god of medicine among other things...)
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My intention :laugh:

I love the Classics. I just finished reading The Metamorphes by Ovid. Great take on mythology. Reading a book now from Oxford which deals with Greece, Eygpt, Rome and Mesopotamia.

I almost was a philosophy major at a small liberal arts college
 
Highest score I know of was a girl in my class who got a 43.

She was also a retake from a 39..her father said she didn't do well the first time...very sad really...
 
CodeBlu said:
Her father is an EFFIN re-****.
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Yea...I feel bad for the girl in all honesty.

Even with the ridiculously low 24 I got, my parents were still at least proud of me for trying...I would hate to be in her shoes with my score :laugh:
 
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