<p>I please ask that you don't take offense to this post, because I did not write it for it to be offensive at all. I just ask that you all please post your kind and "unbiased"(or as unbiased as you can be) opinions.</p>
<p>Is JHU a good place for premed? Would it be better than places such as Columbia, Princeton, and Brown? (and why) I sometimes feel as if JHU is just a place for people who didn't get as high SAT scores or didn't get into ivies. Are my notions completely wrong? Does JHU have a good admittance rate of Undergrads into med school (as opposed to other schools of equal or higher calibur)? thanks</p>
<p>This is going to a fun thread to follow... ha ha ha.</p>
<p>I will just say this. #1 hospital in the country. #2 Medical School in the country. 95% acceptance rate into medicial school for pre-med students. And of yeah, it is JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY which most people feel is synonymous with innovation in medicine.</p>
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I will just say this. #1 hospital in the country. #2 Medical School in the country. 95% acceptance rate into medicial school for pre-med students. And of yeah, it is JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY which most people feel is synonymous with innovation in medicine.
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I'd like to re-quote that about 300 times. But that would be flooding, and I don't want to get banned from CC.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is world renound for medicine. A friend of mine from Saudi Arabia was one of the top students in his country. The Saudi Arabian government selected him to come to America and study medicine, since he wished to be a future research doctor. Guess where they sent him? Not Columbia, not Princeton, not Brown, and no, NOT Harvard. They sent him straight to Hopkins to study medicine for the summer. According to him, people in the middle east have utmost respect for Hopkins as a medical institution, for both both graduate students and undergradute students.</p>
<p>That was almost precisely the question I wanted to ask. The thing is, I got into BME at JHU - by far one of the best programs in the country. However, as an International, I notice that JHU is far less reknowned than the ivies. At school, I'm the guy that got into Duke not the guy that got into JHU. </p>
<p>I wish to do Bioengineering undergrad and become a doctor later. JHU seems to be the way to go for this as it outranks even harvard in these fields. I have also got into Duke and I'm not sure what to do. I keep hearing conflicting reports - JHU BME is really cutthroat, grades are not going to be too great bacause of the competition, JHU has quotas for acceptance of JHU undergrads into medical school and so on. This competition is the kind of environment I like, but I can't help wonder if institutions would just judge you by the numbers rather than the fact that it was achieved at JHU BME. If this is the case, I would probably prefer to keep the future in mind when making any decision. Any suggestions??</p>
<p>Do you really think the admissions officers to medical school are going to look at your transcript and say "Hmm...he graduated from the #1 BME program in the country, but let us consult our US News and World Reports....oh my, 13th? Well, that's no good. REJECT."</p>
<p>Just because people at your school don't know about Hopkins doesn't mean that everyone doesnt, especially people involved with MEDICAL SCHOOL. You think they don't know the name of the #1 Hospital and #2 medical school in the country? You'd be wrong.</p>
<p>Ok, but I have a question,...what if you're not in BME? would the answers change? Do more people in JHU get into Med schools because they apply to worse med schools than those in ivies or is JHU just a great place for premed?</p>
<p>and let me ask everyone a theoretical question. If YOU got into johns hopkins(but not BME) and Columbia, where would you choose to go on a holistic scale? (Like including the name of the ivy, yadah yad yad)</p>
<p>By the way,...these are all hypothetical, i did not get accepted into columbia</p>
<p>Hopkins. not Columbia. Sciences are stronger... and i've yet to meet anyone who hasn't been impressed that i was accepted to JHU. except for someone who goes to Cornell, and he doesn't count bc nationally Cornell and JHU are both ranked 12th. and he's a jerk.</p>
<p>ok heres a question, i got acceoted to both jhu and cornell for a major in chemical/biochemical engineering, not BME. which place would i be better off at as far as graduate school, job placement, or possibly even med school?</p>
<p>you are best off going to the school that you feel most comforatable at and not basing your decision off of statistics. Sure one school may be marginally better than the other but in the end you can go to grad/med school from anywhere (even your local state univ). </p>
<p>Any ABET certified engineering programs (which are almost all of them) pretty much offer the same courses because they have to meet ABET criteria. So at the undergrad level there is little difference between top ranked engineering schools, just go where you feel comfortable</p>