Hello College Confidential!
Lately I have been having a serious dilemma. It is my dream to get accepted into medical school and become a doctor, but I really want to major in biomedical engineering for my undergrad. My dream school is UPenn. Everytime I visit any college campus and go on an engineering tour, I always encounter biomedical engineering students who are pre-med, and they always say that they would not want to do anything else and that I should definitely go for it. Obviously this is very encouraging, until I go back to reading on college confidential and research the average GPAs of engineering students for the schools that I'm applying to. Also, every time I have mentioned that I want to do engineering on college confidential, I get a lot of responses from people who say that engineering is too hard to get good grades in, which is really discouraging. My question is- should I pursue my interest in engineering, or should I be more pragmatic and rethink my intended major. If it helps, here are some of my grades from the math and science classes that I've taken-
AP Chemistry- 98% (One of the hardest classes in my school. 2nd highest score in my school.)
AP Physics- 96% (took this as a sophomore, which is very uncommon)
AP Calc AB- 95%
AP Bio- 98%
Honors Biochemistry- 100%
AP Calc BC- 99% (this is considered by many the hardest class in my school)
(All grades are unweighted and based on a 100% scale)
Do my grades reflect that I truly have a passion for biomedical engineering and that I could pull a good GPA? I really like all of these classes, and I would love to be able to use them all together, and I see biomedical engineering as the perfect major for me. Thank you everyone!
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