Thinking of going straight Bio

[commodores12]

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[ablavar]

As a BME, I'll have to say stick with BME if you like it. I've been exactly where you are and as a senior, I'm glad I stuck with it.

(1) It'll prepare you well for the MCAT. In comparison to my BME classes, the MCAT was a pretty minor deal now that I look back.

(2) More options after graduating. Consider the fact that only a little more than a third of applicants get into medical school. Are you willing to be a high school bio teacher if you don't get into med school?

(3) Colleges take it into consideration. Add at least 0.2 to your GPA if you are a BME compared to an bio major. Easily. If the adcom doesn't take it into consideration, then you shouldn't consider their school, cuz they're idiots.

(4) ITS WAAAAAY MORE INTERESTING THAN BIO. Once you get into you major classes, you'll actually like it and consider staying an engineer.

Don't listen to people on this forum saying that GPA is everything. For one thing, they're on this forum all the time and their perception is out of wack. For another, they're English majors who will have garbage MCATs.

Spoken like a true BME 👍

 

[Morsetlis]

I'm starting to actually think that this has to be the best option for med school. Currently I'm set up for BME. But I mean honestly if high GPA is really all that is necessary besides MCAT scores etc, then doesn't it make sense to just do straight Bio over BME which apparently kills GPA?

Then one might say but there is an overabundance of Bio majors applying so do humanities. But humanities wouldn't truly prepare you for med school even if you got the pre reqs b/c a Bio major would let you take the upper level Bio/Chem.

Also, I've read numerous times they don't care how hard your major is as long as your GPA is high. Therefore it doesn't really matter if you took the hard arse Eng class when the Bio major is going to be much easier to achieve a high GPA.

Any thing I'm missing here? B/c honestly I can't truly see myself doing anything besides medicine, so I'm thinking that the major that would prepare me the most w/ the highest GPA would be Bio.

Plus I'm in Texas so that 90% in state rule.

Your prereqs don't even prepare you for med school, so how can your major? Your major is there to make you look interesting and also teach you something that you should want to learn about or do in life. (The GPA is there to tell the med school how well you study.)

If you think you would make a good Biologist and a good physician, or that Biology quite interests you, go Bio.

If you think that going straight Bio is going to give you a higher GPA, don't be fooled: certain people work better with technical, biochemical, and mathematical subjects such as Biochem/Chem/Phys/Engi. Some people work well with Marine Biology and Ornithology and Mammology and Physiology. Perhaps your Biology major would land you in a Gross Anatomy class that you're not prepared for -> lower GPA.

Perhaps for some people English is not a hard class.

In short, take the major that you are most interested in and that you think fits your learning style.

 

[V5RED]

source?

I will redirect this back at you. Show me a source that being a BME major adds minimally .2 to your GPA in the eyes of medical schools. Show me a source that english majors have crappy MCAT scores. Show me a source that BME majors gain 4-6 points more on the MCAT than other majors "without even trying".

As a BME, I'll have to say stick with BME if you like it. I've been exactly where you are and as a senior, I'm glad I stuck with it.

(1) It'll prepare you well for the MCAT. In comparison to my BME classes, the MCAT was a pretty minor deal now that I look back.

(2) More options after graduating. Consider the fact that only a little more than a third of applicants get into medical school. Are you willing to be a high school bio teacher if you don't get into med school?

(3) Colleges take it into consideration. Add at least 0.2 to your GPA if you are a BME compared to an bio major. Easily. If the adcom doesn't take it into consideration, then you shouldn't consider their school, cuz they're idiots.

(4) ITS WAAAAAY MORE INTERESTING THAN BIO. Once you get into you major classes, you'll actually like it and consider staying an engineer.

Don't listen to people on this forum saying that GPA is everything. For one thing, they're on this forum all the time and their perception is out of wack. For another, they're English majors who will have garbage MCATs.

You add at least 4-6 points on the MCAT by being a BME without really trying. I'll take that in exchange for a slight dent in GPA any day.

Plus, what if you went bio and didn't graduate with the GPA you expected? Then you don't have much of an excuse do you?

 

[commodores12]

Your prereqs don't even prepare you for med school, so how can your major? Your major is there to make you look interesting and also teach you something that you should want to learn about or do in life. (The GPA is there to tell the med school how well you study.)

If you think you would make a good Biologist and a good physician, or that Biology quite interests you, go Bio.

If you think that going straight Bio is going to give you a higher GPA, don't be fooled: certain people work better with technical, biochemical, and mathematical subjects such as Biochem/Chem/Phys/Engi. Some people work well with Marine Biology and Ornithology and Mammology and Physiology. Perhaps your Biology major would land you in a Gross Anatomy class that you're not prepared for -> lower GPA.

Perhaps for some people English is not a hard class.

In short, take the major that you are most interested in and that you think fits your learning style.

I'm alright with this analysis 👍

 

[Morsetlis]

For every music major that goes to a US allopathic medical school, there's one at a Caribbean school. I met one today. She was quite beautiful and sings mezzo soprano and likes arias.

 

[commodores12]

I will redirect this back at you. Show me a source that being a BME major adds minimally .2 to your GPA in the eyes of medical schools. Show me a source that english majors have crappy MCAT scores. Show me a source that BME majors gain 4-6 points more on the MCAT than other majors "without even trying".

I was only speaking for myself based on my stats. I didn't ask for the source to be confrontational. I was just wondering where you got this info, because its the first time I've heard it.

 

[V5RED]

3.6 GPA, 39 mcat. Only studied for the mcat for 4 weeks and I'm not particularly smart. Would I have been able to do that with bio? Fat chance.

OP...dude... you're considering bio out of some irrational fear spurred by neurotic SDNers. Chill the eff out and stick with BME.

 

[ablavar]

I will redirect this back at you. Show me a source that being a BME major adds minimally .2 to your GPA in the eyes of medical schools. Show me a source that english majors have crappy MCAT scores. Show me a source that BME majors gain 4-6 points more on the MCAT than other majors "without even trying".

I can attest to the MCAT. I have been trained from day one of introductory engineering analysis to solve problems like those on the PS section. Systems physiology in engineering brought me a much more analytical perspective in biology too.

 

[commodores12]

i see what you did there...🙄