hey, ill be starting university in sep this year and just have a few questions that need answering.

i got offers from both uwo engineering and bio med this year but got talked into talking engineering on the basis that i would still have a decent job say if i apply for med school and dont get in.

how hard is the engineering program at western (like how hard is it to get an 80% in the 1st two years) and say i dont like engineering how hard would it be for me to switch to biomed.

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and for those of you who have taken engineering and/or are going to med school, how hard would it be to do med school after 4 years of engineering.

k im scared now lol.

say after 1st year i find engineering not a field i would like to build my career on how easy would it be to switch from engineering to biomed in second year. like are there any similar courses.

thx for the help.

I'm not sure what the requirements are for engineering ... but i can help with biomed.

to get into biomed second year you need bio, chem, calc, and i think physics has to be taken before 3rd year.

it wont be easy switching from eng to biomed. it's probably better to talk to a counselor about it cause they will definitely give better advice

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UWO BMSc 2010

I can't speak for UWO, but I just finished first year electrical engineering at U of T and it was definitely challenging. The courses I found the most difficult were the physics ones (statics and dynamics), but I never really liked that stuff.

To try and give you some perspective, my high school average was 93% (maybe I had an easy high school). My first term average was 77, and my first term GPA was 3.28. My second term average was 82, and the GPA was 3.62. Overall, my first year average was around 79.5 and my cGPA was 3.45.

I found I was able to do well (80+) in the courses that I enjoyed. In the courses that I did not enjoy, I found it much harder to study (got a 66 in statics and a 72 in dynamics).

I don't know what it's like with other programs, but in engineering, if your average is 80 or over, you are almost surely in the top 15% of the class.

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U of T Electrical Engineering 1T1

There is no "studying" in those courses. You learn a couple of formulas and that's that. You're a machine, and do many past exams as you can. Don't you just hate that, do the past exams. I didn't do any past exams in high-school, nor past tests. I sat there, read and understood the materials. Here it's just do as many questions as you can, totally mundane and drab.

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University of Lost Hope, Broken Dreams and Tattered Souls - Sanitational Engineering '08
Self-help: I am taking Engineering, but Engineering isn't taking me.

Yeah I find that sometimes you just don't get something but you can do the questions but if you keep on doing question after question after question, it finally hits you and you have that enlightening moment and you realize why these formula's work and why you're doing them etc.

and most of the really mundane stuff is all in first year anywyas

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-University of Toronto Electrical Engineering 1T0!