BME
BME majors take classes in this building, home to the College of Engineering's undergrad programs office.
What is Engineering II?
This is the actual full name of "ChemE" at UConn
What is Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering?
"Health Sciences" at UConn isn't its own department, it lives inside this major, Allied Health Sciences, itself housed in this college.
What is CAHNR (College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources)?
There's no formal application to declare yourself pre-med at UConn. Doing this however is considered the unofficial way.
What is joining the Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Advising Office newsletter?
This is the name of the four-week, residential summer program the Vergnano Institute runs for freshman engineering students.
What is Sophomore Summer?
Before their third semester, BME majors must pick one of these.
Bonus if you can name all of them
What is a concentration/track?
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Computational and Systems Biology, Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, and Systems, Imaging and Instrumentation
This national student organization's UConn chapter runs plant tours, career events, and sends students to the annual conference.
What is AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)?
This is the minimum cumulative GPA needed to stay in CAHNR.
What is 2.3?
Besides pre-med and pre-dental students, UConn's pre-health advising office also formally supports students on these three other tracks.
What are pre-PA (physician assistant), pre-optometry, and pre-podiatry?
BRIDGE students take non-credit prep sessions in Chemistry, Physics, Python, Pre-Calc/Calculus, and this life science.
What is Biology?
This 3-credit course is required of every first-year College of Engineering student.
What is ENGR 1166, Foundations of Engineering?
This intro course, taken alongside Calc I and Chemistry in year one, teaches every incoming engineering student
What is CSE 1010, Intro to Computing for Engineers?
Incoming first-year students are automatically placed into this default concentration and track within the Allied Health Sciences major.
What is the Health Sciences concentration, Track A?
To be "pre-med" at UConn, you must major in a science field like Biology.
What is no?
Pre-med is an advising track layered onto any major, not a major itself.
After completing BRIDGE and a required fall course, students earn this many UConn credits toward their degree.
What is three?
This is the minimum cumulative GPA a first-year BME student must hold after their first 24 credits in residence, or risk being moved out of the College of Engineering entirely.
What is 2.5?
This weed out class taken Sophomore year is the biggest hurdle for CHEG students.
What is Organic Chemistry I & II?
This intro AH course, often one of the first a pre-health freshman takes, teaches the vocabulary of clinical practice.
What is AH 2001, Medical Terminology?
Current UConn undergrads on the health-professions track can get mentored by these near-peers, students already pursuing the same path who run drop-in hours.
What are Health Professions Peer Advisors (HPPAs)?
At the end of BRIDGE, the Institute awards this much total in scholarships to students who've shown strong effort and a positive attitude all summer.
What is $50,000 to $60,000 (for the academic year)?
All engineering majors, BME included, must submit this one-time official form after earning 54 credits, mapping out the courses left to graduate.
What is the preliminary plan of study?
This course combines Fluid dynamics and Thermodynamics into one high level course.
What is Heat and Mass Transfer?
Where I should go if I have an illness or family/personal issue and need support. This office will connect you to resources, talk to your professors for you, and can arrange for extensions/special accomodations.
What is the Dean of Students Office
This is UConn pre-health advising's self-reported annual medical school matriculation rate for the students it supports.
What is around 60 percent?
Name four out of five summer programs currently offered by the Vergnano Institute for Impact.
What are Explore Engineering, SPARK, BRIDGE, Sophomore Summer, and On TRAC?