Engineer's GPA and MCAT

[MechE]

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For all you engineers applying for entrance in 2005, what are your GPA's and MCAT scores?

 

[secretasianman]

For all you engineers applying for entrance in 2005, what are your GPA's and MCAT scores?

bioengineering: gpa = 3.87. mcat= 32q
if you push grades and manipulate your class schedule well enough, it's doable to get a good gpa 🙂.

 

[karmon]

B.S. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Biomedical Engineering

G.P.A 4.0

MCAT - 44T

fear me

 

[Psycho Doctor]

B.S. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Biomedical Engineering

G.P.A 4.0

MCAT - 44T

fear me

whoa!!! we don't want to ever hear you complain about ANYTHING!!!!

 

[Gerg]

B.S. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Biomedical Engineering

G.P.A 4.0

MCAT - 44T

fear me

Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Biomedical Engineering is Chem E's bastard, dumb little brother.

Seroiusly tho. They started a Biomed Engineering program at my school, it's the same as the Chem E, except different electives. That and you don't have to take Pchem, and can get away with cushy "Stats for Bio Majors" instead of "Hardcore Stats for Scientists and Engineers".

Man, I hate it when they dumb things down. It's having people who've never heard about calculus take physics, and then expect to be able to teach it to them effectivly..

 

[echinoderm]

how helpful is it to be an engineering major? do they sympathize?

 

[secretasianman]

Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Biomedical Engineering is Chem E's bastard, dumb little brother.

Seroiusly tho. They started a Biomed Engineering program at my school, it's the same as the Chem E, except different electives. That and you don't have to take Pchem, and can get away with cushy "Stats for Bio Majors" instead of "Hardcore Stats for Scientists and Engineers".

Man, I hate it when they dumb things down. It's having people who've never heard about calculus take physics, and then expect to be able to teach it to them effectivly..

uh, ok. our bioe program is #2 in the nation, and its pretty much biomechanics based. "hardcore stats for scientists and engineers" is pretty much overrated. not easy, but doable. bioengineering programs across the nation are often very different, so you can't really expect to know what other ppl have gone through.

 

[Hersey]

how helpful is it to be an engineering major? do they sympathize?

Sympathize? If you think engineering's so awful as to warrant sympathy, maybe it's time to change majors.

If the real question is, "do we get a pass for lower GPA because we're engineers", I answer with a question, "should we?"

My strategy would be this: have a good GPA at the end. If somebody looks at it later and thinks, "wow, it's good AND it's in engineering," then so much the better. If the next person just thinks, "wow, it's good," then that's fine.

If you really want your major to be a boost to your application, start thinking about the philosophical similarities between engineering and medicine. There are many. Talk about it in your application. Find engineering work in the medical industry, if you can. This looks good.

Can somebody notify all the young pre-med engineers in advance and tell them to just get good grades?

 

[Psycho Doctor]

i started as an engineering major and decided this wa snot what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. even if i don't getinto med school i couldn't do engineering; i need to work with people in some humanitarian capacity

 

[Psycho Doctor]

uh, what kind of engineering are you talking about? *cough* design projects *cough* teamwork *cough*

i don't mean i never saw people, but i mean i wanted a career devoted to working to help people

 

[tinkerbelle]

i don't mean i never saw people, but i mean i wanted a career devoted to working to help people

You help people as engineers, just in a different way. One year, my team designed and built a bike for a 7 year old with Brachial Plexus Injury. The poor thing couldn't grip the regular handle bars becuase one hand was shorter than the other. Plus her hands were shaped abnormally. If that isn't helping soemone, I don't know what it.

P.S. I was a BME at Hopkins (#1 in that field)... it defintiely wasn't a dumbed down version of ChemE. Belive me, we all know out Diff Eq and Calc just as well as the Physics/Chem E dudes, if not better.

 

[mattorama]

i don't mean i never saw people, but i mean i wanted a career devoted to working to help people

Same reason I went from engineering to med school (first year now)...something about living my life in a cubicle designing/redesigning things.

oh, and everyone I talked to who was in the know about admissions said that they don't really give a rip about major. They expect people to do well in whatever major they choose. It was funny in undergrad. The only engineers who would complain with the "woe is me!!! poor engineering me!! Nobody else knows the pain of an engineer!!" were the ones who didn't do well. I never heard anyone who did well talk down other majors or make engineering into some beast of a major. Work hard and you will get in.

good luck

 

[LauraMac]

engineering is way more time consuming than anything else, and i personally think it is also way harder. every engineer i know gets all As or close to it in their humanities/social science classes. the time spent on homework assignments and group projects pales (sp?) in comparison to the time spent reading for humanities/social science classes. i know, because i have taken both typs of classes. this is taking into account two different universities which i have attended, so while it is only what i've experienced, it is at least somewhat reliable.

also, engineering is the most anti-social, dorky major there really is. there is no people contact. everything is just working in a lab doing research with a few other nerdy scientists. yes, there are design projects and there is team work, but it's only with a few other engineers, no "regular" people. you do help people, but not directly, and i think helping people directly is what psychodoctor was talking about when he mentioned why he switched out of engineering.

 

[LauraMac]

oh yeah...

GPA: 3.63(nonscience)/3.73(BCPM)
MCAT: 10/10/10/O

notice how most engineers have a higher science GPA than non-science...

 

[Gerg]

Ok, ok. Maybe BME is not Chem E's "Bastard, dumb little brother." At all universitys Esp at tinkerbell's and passthesashimi's. But at my school it was.


As for admissions to Med Schools, I don't think that adcoms give a damn about your undergrad degree, only that you've got a decent GPA, have a good MCAT, and have a Bachelor of "xxxx".

Another thing that I think gives engineers a sense of superiority is that we HAVE to take intro classes for other majors (pysch, english, philosophy, econ) and like LauraMac says, it is often those classes that we don't put much time into.

I've never seen a Econ or English major in Statics, Mass/Energy Balances, or other "entry level" engineering classes that end up failing 1/2 the people in the class, and then those people go to become other majors.

Not to say that people from non-engineering majors don't go through hardships or difficult classes in their curriculum. Mearly that engineers (possibly falsely) know that they're better than everybody else.

Afterthough: If you know you're better than everybody else, and proud of it, don't let the adcoms know that. Physicians can only be judgemental on the inside, and neet to treat the cop and the crook who shot eachother in the shoot out with the same professionalism.

 

[constructor]

uh, ok. our bioe program is #2 in the nation, and its pretty much biomechanics based. "hardcore stats for scientists and engineers" is pretty much overrated. not easy, but doable. bioengineering programs across the nation are often very different, so you can't really expect to know what other ppl have gone through.

#2 in the nation? what're you smoking? have you heard of stanford, MIT, ucsf, etc.? apparently not..

 

[constructor]

You help people as engineers, just in a different way. One year, my team designed and built a bike for a 7 year old with Brachial Plexus Injury. The poor thing couldn't grip the regular handle bars becuase one hand was shorter than the other. Plus her hands were shaped abnormally. If that isn't helping soemone, I don't know what it.

P.S. I was a BME at Hopkins (#1 in that field)... it defintiely wasn't a dumbed down version of ChemE. Belive me, we all know out Diff Eq and Calc just as well as the Physics/Chem E dudes, if not better.

i like how everyone starts to claim that their school is #1 for what they're doing.

 

[uclabruin2003]

representin' the chem e's

 

[Scrubz67]

Johns Hopkins is number one for Biomedical Engineering...according to US news. I believe this year the number 2's are Georgia Tech and UCSD. But in terms of prestige I have to agree with constructor, schools like MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech and Hopkins regardless of what the numbers come out to each year still get more respect and credibility and abberant school rankings in the real world.

Thats just my 2 cents

Aww heck, I'll throw my mediocre stats in to make people feel better about themselves:
MCAT 32R (10V, 11PS. 11BS)
Mechanical Engineering B.S.E. Duke University 3.50 (BCPM)/3.44 Cum
Mechanical Engineering M.S.E Univ of Michigan 3.5

 

[tinkerbelle]

i like how everyone starts to claim that their school is #1 for what they're doing.

Dude, grab a rankings list and check for yourself before you make it sound like I'm making stuff up Hopkins has been the number one BME school for years.

 

[secretasianman]

Dude, grab a rankings list and check for yourself before you make it sound like I'm making stuff up Hopkins has been the number one BME school for years.

hopkins is pimp. they'll be #1 for the next 500 years or so. but they dont have the "father of biomechanics" in their faculty 🙂. hah.

 

[secretasianman]

#2 in the nation? what're you smoking? have you heard of stanford, MIT, ucsf, etc.? apparently not..

i go to ucsd, we consistently wobble back and forth from #2 -4 in the nation. mit's program is good too, but stanford and ucsf? come on, what do you seriously know about their programs now? last i heard stanford's is pretty damn young and still trying to get on the right foot. same with the ucsf/berkeley deal. go check the rankings; i'm not smoking anything. although maybe i should for my interview...

 

[constructor]

i go to ucsd, we consistently wobble back and forth from #2 -4 in the nation. mit's program is good too, but stanford and ucsf? come on, what do you seriously know about their programs now? last i heard stanford's is pretty damn young and still trying to get on the right foot. same with the ucsf/berkeley deal. go check the rankings; i'm not smoking anything. although maybe i should for my interview...

you're right, you're not smoking anything.. my apologies. i think it's us news that's smoking something. i checked out the info on the websites and stanford gets way more money for research than hopkins or ucsd (when you include donations from private corporations in the silicon valley after those NIH grants). both ucsf and stanford are right in the middle of silicon valley where they make the most impressive medical and surgical devices, and a lot of their faculty are owners of those companies part-time. i'll give it to you that they're young, but that's not any reason to downplay their status and it's probably why us news doesn't have them at 1 and 2. once us news starts out with a list, they try really hard to keep the rankings more or less the same so the formula for the rankings seems robust and legitimate (when it's really crap) - we all know the story with how the medical schools are ranked and i don't know of one person who agrees with the top 10. btw, i'm talking about biomedical informatics and bioengineering... are you talking about biomechanics?

 

[secretasianman]

you're right, you're not smoking anything.. my apologies. i think it's us news that's smoking something. i checked out the info on the websites and stanford gets way more money for research than hopkins or ucsd (when you include donations from private corporations in the silicon valley after those NIH grants). both ucsf and stanford are right in the middle of silicon valley where they make the most impressive medical and surgical devices, and a lot of their faculty are owners of those companies part-time. i'll give it to you that they're young, but that's not any reason to downplay their status and it's probably why us news doesn't have them at 1 and 2. once us news starts out with a list, they try really hard to keep the rankings more or less the same so the formula for the rankings seems robust and legitimate (when it's really crap) - we all know the story with how the medical schools are ranked and i don't know of one person who agrees with the top 10. btw, i'm talking about biomedical informatics and bioengineering... are you talking about biomechanics?

well classical bioengineering is supposed to be biomechanics based. i know a lot of ppl will dispute this depending on what school theyre from, eg duke's is very ee based. you're right that us news is mostly a bunch of crock, but i think it shouldn't be completely discounted. our program at ucsd offers a bunch of different focuses, including that in bioinformatics, which has a pretty comprehensive curriculem. the rankings are mainly based on on peer ratings of faculty research, and money. so no matter what the schools offer, the rankings show you where a good place is to work and do good research, and not too much on the curriculum or the teaching, because i can honestly say that that isnt the priority of large research universities. u may also be right that they keep the rankings uniform, i cant argue for or against that i guess.. interesting thought though.

 

[supersnuffles]

I have to agree that JHU's BME is pretty difficult. But I was also a ChemE, and I must say that ChemE classes are equally difficult, but in a different way. For a ChemE to say that BME is a washed out version, it's not. We take all ChemE core classes to satisfy our concentration. I can understand why ChemE's hate on us though, we get all the love because we're the "new and exciting" major and we crowd all their classes.

 

[topolm]

I have a chemical engineering degree and most of my che scores were B's or B-'s
(2.7-3.00)
However, the rest of my science classes: chem/bio/math/physics I have a solid 3.5+ gpa. On applying to dental/med school, will they factor in that my chemical engineering classes which were much much tougher than the bio, chem, physics and math classes? Also, since I will be 4 years out of college and have 4 years of work experience as a patent examiner with the USPTO, will this dilute the importance of gpa a touch?
Thanks.

 

[tinkerbelle]

I have a chemical engineering degree and most of my che scores were B's or B-'s
(2.7-3.00)
However, the rest of my science classes: chem/bio/math/physics I have a solid 3.5+ gpa. On applying to dental/med school, will they factor in that my chemical engineering classes which were much much tougher than the bio, chem, physics and math classes? Also, since I will be 4 years out of college and have 4 years of work experience as a patent examiner with the USPTO, will this dilute the importance of gpa a touch?
Thanks.

If you're smart, you'll count these low-grade chemE classes as ENGINEERING so that it doesn't screw up your BCPM gpa. But to answer your question, I don't think they really look at the difficulty of your courses.

 

[topolm]

thx for response tink,
we have a choice as to how classes are classified?

If you're smart, you'll count these low-grade chemE classes as ENGINEERING so that it doesn't screw up your BCPM gpa. But to answer your question, I don't think they really look at the difficulty of your courses.

 

[tinkerbelle]

thx for response tink,
we have a choice as to how classes are classified?

Yup, you can choose. If it's in the engineering dept, then they aren't going to question you for listing it as Engineering. And that way you protect your science gpa.

It's trying to classify engineering classes as BCPM that gets tricky... Although I had no problem with it.

edit: They do have a general listing of how things should be classified. And according to that all our engineering classes are either under engineering or computer science. Hmm. Does my post make any sense? I think I'm babbling

 

[JDAWG07]

I'm bioengineering: 3.94GPA, 39O MCAT

I completely agree with whoever said that BioE's/BME's know a little about everything, but it is diffucult as a BioE to concentrate on anything specific - especially in any of the engineering disciplines. I know many schools allow their BioE students to to tailor their courses and take a certain track (e.g. EE, ChemE, MechE, etc), but it's naive to think that BioE students can learn as much as those that go the traditional route because their core BioE courses get in the way.

Basically, if you're bent on being a hardcore BioE, then major in a traditional engineering discipline and do a minor in BioE. For instance, if you want to design ultrasound machines, major in EE and minor in BioE. It's much easier to learn the biology in a minor or as an afterthought than it is the engineering.

However, if your goal is medicine, then BioE is great because studying it forces you to develop useful critical thinking and problem solving skills. This is great for the MCAT - I'm at a state school and the average MCAT of the six of us applying is in the mid - 30's (for perspective, the average for Harvard premeds is 32). In addition, you will understand much more about the physical basis of medicine and have a good sense about how the equipment you will use works.

True stories:

On one interview, the interviewer made mention that BioE is hard. She was a basic scientist and I could tell that while it might not directly influence the school's decision, it did earn a little respect.

On another interview, the interviewer said that engineers tend to have the easiest time in the first two years of med school. He said that one year, the dean pushed them to accept more humanities majors and while they were very good on the wards, their test scores were much lower than in years past. After the dean saw this, he made sure that the next class recruited had lots of engineers and test scores rose back to their previous levels.

 

[tinkerbelle]

One of my BME professors used to say that we tend to do WORSE in med school. Something about how we need to understand everything instead of just memorizing stuff. But I don't know if I agree with him. Most BMEs I see do awesome in med school. And understanding why things happen is always good... although I agree that you need a balance otherwise you'll never cover all the material

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Battle of the nerds. Who is the biggest nerd?

 

[Tiddly of Winks]

Ya'll are some angry enginerds out there.

I kid--my roommates were both engineers and much more social than I. 🙂

 

[RichieRich2004]

this is my take on the engineering issue (just my opinion), i think an amissions comt. will favor an engineer just as they would favor a history or art major all over a bio major. It makes you a bit interesting.....but you have to do well in what you do, (so do good on you phys science MCAT section and get the same GPA as the bio maj or you are one down) one thing about engineering that other majors dont know about is the ABET degree (accreditation board engineering tech), if you have this accreditation on your degree, (biomed, chem, elec) your school MUST give you a number of hours of homework per hour in the class to keep this ABET accreditation. So a premed engineer faces a situation where you have about 20 hours of homework a week, exams, (2 a quarter in each class), and one design project per class (about a 20 page paper) plus a bunch of presentations this is required by ABET to accredit the program. (also any ABETengin major must take a set of core engin classes,,like fluid dynamics, mass transfer, ext) Its a serious degree and the professors have a responsiblility to teach students design so that bridge you are on is a safe one... This is not the kind of work where you can just whip it out,,,its hard, original problem solving stuff..but it all gets done in the end and the grades are relative to a history paper, bio exam, whatever.. So it really comes down to a time issue.....engineers still have to take ochem, volunteer, the mcat, ext, ext..so thats the pain with engineering. but dont do it to get into med school DO WHAT YOU LIKE, I did it so i could learn how to do something interesting and practical, but i dont like how people use it as a low grade bla bla bla.....i dont think its true, i think if you print up the average gpa of all majors a strait bio major will have a lower gpa than the engin major's (not applying but just at the undergrad level,,,this could be do to weeding??? I have seen some numbers given to me by a med school admissions member of a UC school and this was the case) Also there are a lot of really cool engineers out in industry, in class it really is a bunch of crazys but during my year off im working in bioengineering and im really inspired. cheers

 

[gujuDoc]

My father is a civil engineer and my brother works in a civil engineer but actually has a degree in chemical engineering and is 6 credits away from being a biomedical engineer.

Anyhow, in both cases, they were very good with test taking skills and what not because of the analytical processes involved in engineering classes.

Also, I know a guy who was a full fledged mechanical engineer that became a doctor as well.

However, I don't think all engineers will automatically make good doctors, because people like my father may be good at Physics and gchm and engineering classes, but absolutely hates biology and is not good with patience.

I think to be a good doctor you must have a good balance between intelligence, analytical/critical thinking, patience and social skills to relate to patients so they can trust you and feel ok with you, and other such factors that must come as a whole.

But you should not be one extreme or another.

 

[gujuDoc]

Oh also, I want to say while GPA and all is good, a B in a class where you retained a lot means more in real life than the A in a class where you learned nor retained anything.


The positive with engineering is that you really really have to work to get an A in almost every class harder than you have to do in any other major, which forces you to learn the application.


Also someone mentioned MIT and other such programs,

My father went to a school in India that is known to be even harder than MIT, known as IIT.........and got a great GPA, however, he would make a sucky doctor cuz bio is not his strong point since he doesn't enjoy it.


Do well and prove yourself and you'll get in. Work hard and you'll succeed that is the bottom line.

 

[topolm]

tink (hope you dont mind me calling you that 😀 )
what can I do about p-chem? p-chem was a class where all the chemistry majors and che's got C's-D's. Its a chemistry class I needed for che. Can I list it as an engineering class? Other question, is there any documentation on the net confirming that science/math gpa explicitly excludes engineering classes?

Thankyou

Yup, you can choose. If it's in the engineering dept, then they aren't going to question you for listing it as Engineering. And that way you protect your science gpa.

It's trying to classify engineering classes as BCPM that gets tricky... Although I had no problem with it.

edit: They do have a general listing of how things should be classified. And according to that all our engineering classes are either under engineering or computer science. Hmm. Does my post make any sense? I think I'm babbling

😀

 

[tinkerbelle]

HI toplm 🙂

Unfortunately, PChem is strictly a chem class... not engineering. Check out the AMCAS instruction booklet. Here's the link, but if it doesn't work, just go to the AAMC website -> AMCAS -> AMCAS Instruction booklet.

http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2005instructionbook.pdf

pg 29 -30 lists the courses that fall under each category. So you'll see that PChem is classified as chemistry and therefore included in your BCPM gpa.

You will also see that Chemical Engineering is listed under ENGI and therefore NOT included in the BCPM gpa. Therefore, classes that are listed under the ChemE Dept or any engineering department at your school (ex: Transport) can be classifed as engineering, even though it may be very chemistry or physics based.

Example: my Mechanical Properties of Materials class was heavily math and physics based. However, since it was taught by the Materials Science Dept (uh.. and I didn't do well), I listed it as Engr. On the other hand, I decided my Structures of Materials class was msotly Physics and therefore should be included in my BCPM gpa. As engineers, I think we have a little leeway as to how we classify our classes. So be honest about the course content, but if your class could be either a BCPM or Engr, then do what will help your gpa.

Hmm... it might help if you posted the names of the classes and which department they were listed under (or you could PM me). However, the AMCAS Instructions should answer most of your questions.


Good luck 🙂

 

[Psycho Doctor]

every applicant has his/her strengths and weaknesses; some majors are deemed as harder than others. i would think tha tadcomms look at the whole picture or at least develop an understanding of th applicant from their interview.

i would hope they view engineering as a tough curriculum. it seems that most people have a higher GPA than their BCPM GPA, my science GPA is higher because most of my "electives" were engineering courses. do you think that will be perceived negatively?

 

[tinkerbelle]

i would hope they view engineering as a tough curriculum. it seems that most people have a higher GPA than their BCPM GPA, my science GPA is higher because most of my "electives" were engineering courses. do you think that will be perceived negatively?

I don't understand why you think it would be perceived negatively 😕

Oh, and on a side note: Yes, most engineering curriculums are tough. And you still need to do semi-well in order to be impressive. That being said, I think it's our *experiences* not our classes that really make us stand out. I mean, seriously, everyone does some type of research. But how many students *actually* design and build stuff that can be used in the real world?? I don't know about other schools, but I know at Hopkins, we are always working on some project with real world applications (yay bme desing team )

 

[topolm]

chem = CHM
math = MTH
bio = BIO
Chemical eng = CHE
physics = PHY


I did some number crunching in excel and it looks like my science gpa is 3.44, chemical engineering gpa is 2.66, humanities is a 3.96.
Overall gpa is a 3.29. SO do I have a shot? 🙁 😕

So how does Adcom

HI toplm 🙂

Unfortunately, PChem is strictly a chem class... not engineering. Check out the AMCAS instruction booklet. Here's the link, but if it doesn't work, just go to the AAMC website -> AMCAS -> AMCAS Instruction booklet.

http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2005instructionbook.pdf

pg 29 -30 lists the courses that fall under each category. So you'll see that PChem is classified as chemistry and therefore included in your BCPM gpa.

You will also see that Chemical Engineering is listed under ENGI and therefore NOT included in the BCPM gpa. Therefore, classes that are listed under the ChemE Dept or any engineering department at your school (ex: Transport) can be classifed as engineering, even though it may be very chemistry or physics based.

Example: my Mechanical Properties of Materials class was heavily math and physics based. However, since it was taught by the Materials Science Dept (uh.. and I didn't do well), I listed it as Engr. On the other hand, I decided my Structures of Materials class was msotly Physics and therefore should be included in my BCPM gpa. As engineers, I think we have a little leeway as to how we classify our classes. So be honest about the course content, but if your class could be either a BCPM or Engr, then do what will help your gpa.

Hmm... it might help if you posted the names of the classes and which department they were listed under (or you could PM me). However, the AMCAS Instructions should answer most of your questions.


Good luck 🙂

 

[tinkerbelle]

The good news is that they don't even ask for your ChemE gpa, b/c yes, that is low. 3.44 science gpa is pretty darn good for an engineer. YES, you have a shot. How did you do in the premed classes like bio, orgo, physics etc? A lot of schools make you list those grades, so as long as they are decent, you should be ok.

My science gpa is like a 3.44 or something. My overall gpa is a little higher than yours... 3.42 i think. But I'm still getting interviews. So don't give up hope 🙂 Also, if you write a kick ass Personal statement and secondary essays, you should still get interviews.

How's your MCAT score? What are your volunteer activities like?

 

[topolm]

Well, I've been volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Northern virginia, and am also volunteering at a hospital. Trying for 7-10 hours total a week since I work long hours. How long should I be doing this for to establish a track record of altruism??? I did well in the premed classes. My overall gpa started going downhill after starting my che classes LOL! How do they figure overall gpa? Does it also not include engineering? I have not begun studying for the MCAT yet, but would like to start school by fall 2006 or fall 2007 since I need to pay a car off.

I am going to be an older applicant since I've been working full time in intellectual property law for the past few years and cant take it anymore.

thanks for all your help!

The good news is that they don't even ask for your ChemE gpa, b/c yes, that is low. 3.44 science gpa is pretty darn good for an engineer. YES, you have a shot. How did you do in the premed classes like bio, orgo, physics etc? A lot of schools make you list those grades, so as long as they are decent, you should be ok.

My science gpa is like a 3.44 or something. My overall gpa is a little higher than yours... 3.42 i think. But I'm still getting interviews. So don't give up hope 🙂 Also, if you write a kick ass Personal statement and secondary essays, you should still get interviews.

How's your MCAT score? What are your volunteer activities like?

 

[tinkerbelle]

Wow. Volunteering 7-10 hours a week is a lot. Good job! The longer you do the activites, the better. Try for at least a year. But I would think something like Habitat for Humanity would be tons of fun and you would continue with that activity for longer.

Yes, your overall gpa includes engineering. I meant there is no specific spot on applications asking what your major gpa is. I assumed your 3.29 included your engineering classes + humanities + BCPM classes.

Hmm... a law background. Cool. I'm sure your background will intrigue AdComs.

Just a FYI: try to take the April MCAT and study your butt off. It's easier to do well & you won't have to worry about submitting your apps late.

Good luck with everything

 

[Arashii]

not really replying to anyone; I just love these engineer threads...I DO have some interview quips though..

Guy: So...you seem to have a lot of free time...
Me:...excuse me?
Guy: I thought all engineers did was study, but you find time to muddle through some other stuff.
Me...hm..thanks..(but I was really thinking 'what a weirdo..')

oh..and another...

Girl: I lived with engineers during med school...they seem to think they can change the world.
Me: We can...beleive me, we can
Girl: (she was DEFINATELY weirded out!..maybe I should keep that pride to myself 😀 )

 

[constructor]

it's their inferiority complex showing through, and deservedly so...

 

[kapnut]

i strongly disagree with all those out there who believe that adcoms dont care if you major in engineering or what is known as an "easy major." They are not stupid and they know how hard engineers work and how are it is for us to keep up a decent g.p.a. ( b.t.w i am currently majoring in bio.med engineering and pure math at top 20 school).
Also, where ever us engineers lack in gpa we make up in mcats. So far all my engineering upperclassmates have done super, mid to high mcats. And no they are not Apersonal people. In the end everything evens out.
Just my 2 cents

 

[Phased]

But at my school it was.

Washington State University Engineering is nothing to brag about, brother. 👎