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#College list ideas for out of state
tardy knot
tardy knot
alr nice. r u going to be able to apply ea (nov 1 ) for most schools?
you might be able to do uiuc for bioeng ea, its only a couple 150 word essays and only counselor rec
uiuc has a great engineering program for bioeng too
real copper
Can you elaborate on your interest in biomedical engineering or bioengineering? If it's something you're seriously considering then that's what you should apply for because it's really easy to leave engineering programs but not so easy to join them later in undergrad after freshman year if that's something you decide you want to do. I will say engineering isn't for the faint of heart it usually includes less free time, the hardest math classes and physics classes on campus with the least forgiving grading. BUT some people really love it (including me) and thrive in that kind of environment. There's still tons of tine time to have work and life but less free time than any other degree for the most part.
real copper
hmm, what math did you take up to?
ok and ur doing those this year as in senior year?
ok. I'd say that's kind of a setback but it sounds like everything else academic preparation-wise is great so I think you'd be ok
In terms of job market, it's bad for everyone and I think the opinion that it's worse for bme was like unique to a long time ago when biotech and healthcare industries weren't as big of a thing as they are. Even now it's different post-COVID.
That said like I know electrical and mechanical engineers who are struggling to find jobs rn and computer scientists have it especially bad rn. Also I don't think biochemists have a unique job market advantage over bme. If anything you can work as a regular biochemist with a bme degree but less likely vice versa. A lot of bme's go into research/academia too as opposed to industry
And a lot of engineering programs recommend calculus but don't require it and you have the next best thing to show you're prepared so that's good. For your Florida schools do they let you apply to a first-choice and second/choice major?
real copper
Ok that's good. Do they sort students into the respective groups like the College of Engineering vs the College of Arts and Sciences?
For schools that do sort by that then you should definitely apply BME
Anyways for OOS schools I'd look at Duke, CWRU (has no extra essays but you do need letters I believe), Brown, Lehigh, Tech, JHU, Vanderbilt, Emory (with the joint biochem and engineering program with georgia tech)
real copper
Usually engineering is standardized the degree generally requires you start it by freshman year first semester sophomore at the latest, most schools wouldn't let you switch in later or you could with the expectation you do an extra year after
any other major requires only like 10 classes to graduate with the major but engineering is like 27. so it's objectively easier to start there and then switch out
weary hemlock
If you want device design / med-tech startups / engineering-first → favor the BME-heavy programs (JHU, Georgia Tech, MIT BE, Stanford, JHU, Duke, Rice, Northwestern, UCSD).
If you want wet-lab molecular biology / pre-med / grad school in biochemistry → favor schools with top life-science departments (UC Berkeley, JHU, MIT, Penn, UCLA, UCSD).