Yes and yes. Your undergraduate college and the major you decide to pursue play an important role in the admissions process. Fortunately for you, you’re considering three engineering disciplines. Whether it’s electrical, biomedical, or civil engineering, it’s “engineering” to the med school AdComs period. The data on engineering majors getting into medical school is a little hard to come by, but mathematics majors (which is practically what the science of engineering is built upon) see about 2/3s of their colleagues get into medical school. You can sort of extrapolate the data for engineering majors based on the numbers for mathematicians.
As for undergraduate colleges, the more rigorous the program the better. My advice would be to choose the college that’s the best fit — if you’re happy, you’ll do well — but if you’re torn between two or three comfortable places, choose the one with the better national profile.
The time to begin planning your application to medical school is now. You should be thinking about ways to show the AdComs that you’re serious about being a physician. Mathematicians, engineers, and other such majors don’t always have those opportunities. We can show you how. Talk to us for an hour and we’ll provide you with a start for a roadmap to medical school.
Good luck.
Timothy Wu, MD
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