Engineering Major

[D0CTORX]

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I will be majoring in Engineering, is there any leniency given to a "harder" major?

Ex) Will majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a 3.4 GPA be looked at more favorably than say, a biochemistry major with a 3.7.?

 

[doc toothache]

Chances are you will be competing with other engineering rather than biochem majors.
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[yappy]

In what world is a biochem degree significantly easier than an engineering UG degree? In fact I think a case could be made that biochem is harder. This is from someone who did a molecular bio major with a materials/nano mech engineering minor.

Engineers would always talk about how hard their major was (it is rather difficult) but they would pull C's while I got an A/A-. Yet I struggled to get B+ in the biochem or molecular series. Go figure.

IMO: 3.7 > 3.4 but they both have a decent shot of an acceptance given a competitive DAT/ec's.

 

[vinnie83]

I was a mechanical engineering major and had plenty of friends who were biochem during undergrad. I don't think I've ever heard either referred to as easy. Now compare either of those to management...

Someone who can make a 3.whatever in either should be able to get a pretty good DAT score.

 

[Stacker]

I think medical and dental schools like engineers more than the other majors. This varies with schools but it is a trend.

 

[sweetbitna]

In what world is a biochem degree significantly easier than an engineering UG degree? In fact I think a case could be made that biochem is harder. This is from someone who did a molecular bio major with a materials/nano mech engineering minor.

Engineers would always talk about how hard their major was (it is rather difficult) but they would pull C's while I got an A/A-. Yet I struggled to get B+ in the biochem or molecular series. Go figure.

IMO: 3.7 > 3.4 but they both have a decent shot of an acceptance given a competitive DAT/ec's.

I think it is also important where you went in order to compare which is more difficult. But for dental schools, they do not care if you majored in engineering or not. You still have to have good GPA and good DAT score to be competitive.

As an engineer myself (studied Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech), I know it is very challenging to do well, but it is not impossible to do well at all.

There is really no way of comparing which is more diffcult. It really depends on each person and where you go to study your major.

 

[sweetbitna]

I will be majoring in Engineering, is there any leniency given to a "harder" major?

Ex) Will majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a 3.4 GPA be looked at more favorably than say, a biochemistry major with a 3.7.?

If you know you want to go to dental school and become a dentist, why major in Electrical Engineering? Is this your back up plan just in case you don't get into dental school or change your mind later on? As both an engineering major and a dental applicant, I suggest major in basic sciences. Although I am proud of my education and my Biomedical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, I sometimes think if I majored in Bio or Chem instead, I would have had much easier time on DAT or even in dental school (I took real dental courses with dental students at a dental school), because you would already know most of the basic sciences. As a bio major, you would be taking courses that are much helpful later on as a dental student.