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chai
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Ok, i was in the same situation as you. I was told (by both of my psche teachers) to look into somthing else unless i wanted to end up teachers like them. Biomedical engineering is a good field. It's not to difficult if you apply yourself. If you like phsyics, math, bio and chemsitry, then its a great major. You can always read psche on the side, haha i do. Im a BME major and its not so bad. Im not a genius or anything, so just apply yourself and will do fine.
As well, if you feel like you are up to it, BME prepares you for medical school. In fact BME majors score higher on MCAT tests (and the like) than pre-med majors (and the like). It was a hard decsion for me as well because I LOVE psche, but i think i made a good decision.
The only con i see with BME is there is hardly any room for you to do anything extra in your plan of study. It's so loaded! In psyche there is more flexibilty for you to be more well rounded. So you could maybe do a foreign lagauge, or sociology, or a bio minor. In BME it's pretty much all planned out with out any room for minors or 'personal enrichment' lol or fun classes outside of science and math. You could minor in math and chem and bio with BME.
I think the clubs and organizations for engineering are better. They have minority ones to, like SHPE(for hispanics) and NSBE (for blacks) and SWE (for women) plus many more.
The median starting pay is only a bit more for Psyche, but the extra time and money you put towards graduate school might balance it out, so don't let that be a deciding factor.
Um, you will have to stay in school longer for psche. Grad school is like a must. With BME you could get lucky and only get a bachelor's and with interships you will be in! I must warn you though a lot of the time the guys in engineering can be arrogant, esp those mechanical engineers lol.
So i say good luck! BME is my advise though.
~chai
As well, if you feel like you are up to it, BME prepares you for medical school. In fact BME majors score higher on MCAT tests (and the like) than pre-med majors (and the like). It was a hard decsion for me as well because I LOVE psche, but i think i made a good decision.
The only con i see with BME is there is hardly any room for you to do anything extra in your plan of study. It's so loaded! In psyche there is more flexibilty for you to be more well rounded. So you could maybe do a foreign lagauge, or sociology, or a bio minor. In BME it's pretty much all planned out with out any room for minors or 'personal enrichment' lol or fun classes outside of science and math. You could minor in math and chem and bio with BME.
I think the clubs and organizations for engineering are better. They have minority ones to, like SHPE(for hispanics) and NSBE (for blacks) and SWE (for women) plus many more.
The median starting pay is only a bit more for Psyche, but the extra time and money you put towards graduate school might balance it out, so don't let that be a deciding factor.
Um, you will have to stay in school longer for psche. Grad school is like a must. With BME you could get lucky and only get a bachelor's and with interships you will be in! I must warn you though a lot of the time the guys in engineering can be arrogant, esp those mechanical engineers lol.
So i say good luck! BME is my advise though.
~chai