<p>Okay, so I know that there are some BME threads already out there, but I wanted to start a new thread with the high level of interest in it. How many people on CC here got in? Are you going?
Also, I had a few questions. First, how many students get in, and how selective is it? Also, how good is this program really? Lastly, how good is it for premed?</p>
<p>I did...I dunno man</p>
<p>yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm goin even though I got into a bunch of other schools including ptown</p>
<p>The program is very selective, right now there are 500 ppl in the BME track which means that they admit only ~150 each year. Hopkins BME is literally the best in the world for BME (undergraduate or graduate)</p>
<p>I think a bunch of people decide to go to medical school after BME. I'm going cause I'm seriously thinking about BME as a career. Maybe I'll change my mind later and go premed but hopkins seems like the best place to make that decision</p>
<p>Actually, I think that about 33% of BME grads end up going to med school. From what I remember, something like 70% come in thinking they want to become doctors, but in the end, grads are split fairly evenly between medical school, graduate school in BME and going to work in industry.</p>
<p>is it really that competitve to get into bme?</p>
<p>Whats the acceptance rate for bme?</p>
<p>Who got in? How about the social scene???</p>
<p>BTWWWW how are the campuses there? the dorms are like dungeons...i heard</p>
<p>i got in. i'm wondering about the social life too.........</p>
<p>Read through the blogs on Hopkins Insider or (better yet) visit campus and stay overnight in the dorms.</p>
<p>Wow, just way too many questions on this thread to answer. Check out the other threads for answers to the variety of remarks. </p>
<p>To the OP - the Hopkins Insider Blog will be updated later next week with full information on admissions stats - including the BME numbers.</p>
<p>And is the program good -- well the Undergrad and Grad programs are consistently ranked #1 in the country by nearly every publication. Yeah, they are that good!!! (What other school has to limit the enrollment for the program, but also offers four other bioengineering areas for undergrads to study???)</p>
<p>I'm a current BME sophomore.</p>
<p>I found a few mistakes on some of the previous posts.</p>
<p>Each year about 130 students join the bme program (I'd bet 200 are selected though) and the acceptance rate overall is in the low 20%'s. By sophomore year only 100 are left...</p>
<p>The dorms (other than AMRs) are pretty nice and a lot better than many of the ones in the schools I've visited. Especially these brand new Charles Commons buildings. If you get lucky you might end up in one of the nice campus apartments (our suite is 700+sq ft). On top of that the food is apparently suppose to get better because the school is going to drop the Sodexo (aka prison food) line and try to get up in the top 10 of the princeton review of schools with the best food. Social life is pretty much dead outside of campus, a lot of kids (with cars) drive out to other nicer parts of Baltimore/Maryland. There isn't much within a walking distance. But you can take a shuttle to the nice aread of Towson. Nevertheless most kids join tight frats or clubs to socialize.</p>
<p>The percent is a lot lower than the 33% going to med school at about 1/5. With the new curriculum change the number is going to be even lower. Now there are more BME classes (i.e. less room for pre-med, and lower GPA).</p>
<p>There is no question that the program is hard. Exams are very tough and some homeworks can take up to 24hrs. But thats just me because I'm one of those kids who happened to sign up for hard classes (outside of BME like Data Structures and Statistics 430). Most kids find time to get stuff done and have fun. On top of that every BME class essentially curves to a B (even with some exam averages at 40%), except Phys Found (or Bio Systems(?) they call it now) which is a B-.</p>
<p>Overall its a rewarding program, you'll learn things in ways you never thought of. Even things like math, physics, chemistry look entirely different and you see great similarities with each. BME will teach you pretty much everything you need to know about all of the various kinds of systems (electrical, mechanical, thermal, chemical) as well as some crazy math (non-linear maps that can exibit chaos), and a lot of stuff about biology (pathways, cancer, etc). But it comes at the cost of knowing you'll have to work a lot harder than most of your friends, and sacrificing great grades (by great I mean 3.5).</p>
<p>Hope that helps
Sorry for the long post</p>
<p>So you still have to like get into BME after getting into the university itself?</p>
<p>When you apply to the university, you have to indicate that you want to be considered for the BME program. When decisions are sent out, you can be denied, waitlisted, accepted to BME, or accepted to the University but not to the BME major.</p>
<p>it sounds like getting good grades almost impossible in BME!!!</p>
<p>How are students gonna hope to apply to Med School if their GPA is so low???? I mean, classes seem like they're exhausting and extremely tough!</p>
<p>Why are grades in BME such a big deal? I'm just looking to graduate with my degree. And JHU wouldn't accept you into BME if they didn't think you could handle it.</p>