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Yep, took me a while to understand that biomedical engineering has really nothing to do with genetic engineering. But bioengineering has a lot to do with it, and that's what I'm gonna do.

I was even thinking of auditing some Laboratory Assistant classes, just to put something on a resume.. May be that will help..

When you say keep asking around, where do you mean I shall ask around? I have no clue. I spent whole day today driving to medical centers and clinical laboratories, where people where kinda surprized to hear something like "I would like to volunteer".

Whichever choice I make, like one guy from some other forum said, "the most crucial thing in the world is to get some hands-on lab experience in an actual research lab somewhere." I was thinking of lab experience, but I really don't know how to arrange that. I was trying to access lab in a hospital as a volunteer ("independent student research program") but I guess no one wants to mentor a student with no experience in lab whatsoever. But where would I get a research experience? How did you gain your experience in lab?

I wish I had the answers for your questions, Skye. Medical research sounds exciting, but I don't feel very certain for any of the fields you've mentioned. I guess this all is too new for me. But, you're right, It's high time to start exploring all those fields. Right now I am taking pre-calculus and C++ (It's my first semester in college). I took programming language because most of the schools that have biomedical engineering or bioengineering require some kind of programming course. I'll be also required to take general biology, chemistry and physics courses and a lot of math, which does, of course, include linear algebra, VendingManace, thanks for bringing that up. Molecular Genetics, Biological Chem and the like all fall in the school of science, which has transfer requirements that are different from those of engineering school. I am looking for a 4 year college that has minor in bioengineering which can be done along with some science major. I would like to take this path, but I am not sure how to combine the prerequisites of these two schools. Any ideas?

Hello, I am a student at a community college, planning career in genetic engineering. Since I have never heard of any university having undergraduate degree in genetic engineering, what major would you suggest I chose that would bring me closer to my choice? I was thinking of biomedical engineering or human genetics. Or has anyone heard of dual program for these two majors?