Wrong Major?

[MWH514]

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Hi...I stumbled onto this site a couple weeks ago when I was doing research for a presentation over vet school and since then have found some very useful and interesting stuff but now I have a question of my own...

I am wondering if you all think my major is the wrong choice for wanting to go to vet school. I am a Chemical Engineering major and I've got a pretty solid GPA. I will be taking all the vet school pre-reqs I can through the next couple of years. My school (UofArkansas) has a great record with ChemE students getting admitted to med school (~90% acceptance) but to the best of my knowledge, I've never heard of any ChemE wanting to go to vet school or any veterinarian that was an engineer. What do y'all think? Any thoughts/suggestions are much appreciated.

-Mark

 

[chris03333]

Hi...I stumbled onto this site a couple weeks ago when I was doing research for a presentation over vet school and since then have found some very useful and interesting stuff but now I have a question of my own...

I am wondering if you all think my major is the wrong choice for wanting to go to vet school. I am a Chemical Engineering major and I've got a pretty solid GPA. I will be taking all the vet school pre-reqs I can through the next couple of years. My school (UofArkansas) has a great record with ChemE students getting admitted to med school (~90% acceptance) but to the best of my knowledge, I've never heard of any ChemE wanting to go to vet school or any veterinarian that was an engineer. What do y'all think? Any thoughts/suggestions are much appreciated.

-Mark

As long as you get your prereqs done you can do any major. In fact being a ChemE major will give you something unique.

 

[pburris]

As long as you get your prereqs done you can do any major. In fact being a ChemE major will give you something unique.

Ditto to that. I was a double major in journalism/psychology, but the pre-reqs are all that matter!

 

[ghostsamurai]

Hi...My school (UofArkansas) has a great record with ChemE students getting admitted to med school (~90% acceptance) but to the best of my knowledge, I've never heard of any ChemE wanting to go to vet school or any veterinarian that was an engineer. What do y'all think? Any thoughts/suggestions are much appreciated.

-Mark

I know a person who had a BS and MS in MechE and got in (after taking all the pre-reqs)

 

[CoffeeCrazy]

I double majored - biomedical engineering and biology. Being an engineer is really helpful when it comes to classes that require you to synthesize the material and apply it rather than memorize and regurgitate... plus I am really good at calculating drug dosages and working with numbers in general for conversions. I think that's the engineering way of thinking being reapplied to easy numbers. 🙂 But it is sort of a shame that everything I learned in regards to EE and ME is no longer useful. At all. I mean, I made a crude doppler blood flow meter as a senior project, but knowing how it works doesn't really help me understand the numbers it outputs!

Your major doesn't really matter, I don't think... but my school had a 100% acceptance rate for BME majors to medical schools, so I guess they feel that engineering students are definitely qualified for medical fields.