<p>Both GT and JHU are amazing schools whose BME programs are second to none. While I definitely want to study biomedical engineering, I also have desires of attending medical school in the future. Keeping GPA, research opportunities, and overall preparation in mind, which school do you think is better? Thanks.</p>
<p>Hopkins dude. Although Tech is right up there with jt</p>
<p>whose BME programs are second to none. While</p>
<p>COMPLETELY irrelevant if you want to go to med school. Med schools do not care, and they won’t even know that you went to a school whose BioMed is “second to none.” med schools do not care about any of that…at all.</p>
<p>* I also have desires of attending medical school in the future. K*</p>
<p>Neither school. If your desire is med school, then getting a very high GPA in that major will be difficult at top schools. </p>
<p>Why do you want BioMedE if you want to go to med school?</p>
<p>Also, what are your stats?</p>
<p>Are you instate for GT? If not, will your parents pay the $45k+ per year to go there?</p>
<p>If your goal TRULY is med school…then…</p>
<p>1) Go to ANY good school and get the highest GPA you can. (med schools do NOT care where you went to undergrad unless it’s really some unknown podunk school).</p>
<p>2) Do research and shadowing and volunteering</p>
<p>3) Prepare for the MCAT</p>
<p>4) Get to know your profs so you can get great LORs (ask them if they need help with their research…that will serve as a two-fer…research and references)</p>
<p>5) Borrow as little as you can for undergrad…preferably borrow NOTHING.</p>
<p>6) If your parents will pay some/all of undergrad, but won’t pay for med school, then ask them if they’ll help you pay for med school IF you get a large merit scholarship for undergrad.</p>
<p>7) Major in something that you can get a high GPA in…maybe something that will provide a back-up career in case you decide against med school. Med schools do NOT care what you major in. They’re not impressed by majors, minors, double majors, etc.</p>
<p>You simply cannot make a wrong choice here.</p>
<p>The cheapest.</p>
<p>Thank you for all of the responses. Like I said, I have some aspirations of attending medical school. However, I’m not entirely sure if that’s exactly what I want. BME offers a solid backup plan in case I decide against studying medicine.</p>
<p>And mom2collegekids, here are my stats/EC (I am a junior):</p>
<p>ACT: 34
SAT: N/A
SAT 2 Subject Tests: Chem (770), Math II (770)
GPA UW: 4.0
GPA W: 4.95
Class Rank: 2/366
AP Classes: 2 as a sophomore (5’s on both), 3 as a junior (looking to score 5’s on all three), planning on 4 as a senior (looking to score 4’s and 5’s on each)</p>
<p>EC:
Varsity Track and Field (3 years)
Varsity Diving (3 years) - Ranked within the state
JV Baseball (2 years)
Concert Band (1 year)
Wind Ensemble (3 years) - Principal percussionist, Section leader
Jazz Band (4 years)
Pep Band (4 years)
Marching Band (4 years) - Section leader
Fall Musical (2 years)
Jazz Combo (2 years)
State Musical Competition (8 state gold medals throughout high school career)
Latin Honors Society (2 years)
National Honors Society (2 years) - Running for secretary/VP next semester
Nature Club (2 years)</p>
<p>Work/Volunteer Experience:
Volunteer as tutor for freshmen students
Volunteer weekly in high school greenhouse
Conducted biological research at local university
Paid CAD internship at local company (summer)</p>
<p>Hopkins is full of premeds. GTech is full of engineers. You can’t go wrong with either, look at environment and cost and make a decision based on that</p>
<p>Great stats!</p>
<p>Like I said, I have some aspirations of attending medical school. However, I’m not entirely sure if that’s exactly what I want. BME offers a solid backup plan in case I decide against studying medicine.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s really true. BME is very limiting and typically requires a grad degree for decent employment. You’d be better off - with wider choices - to go with MechE or ChemE because both can go to BME for grad school, but also can get you well-employed with just the BS.</p>
<p>Are you instate for GT? If so, then go there. If not, then you need to find out from your parents if they’ll pay the high price to go there. It’s a public and won’t give you much/any aid. And, merit there isn’t that likely.</p>
<p>Have you asked your parents how much they’ll pay? Run the NPC’s on GT’s and JHU’s websites and see what you get. Keep in mind that if your parents are divorced or they own a business then the NPCs won’t be accurate</p>
<p>Wow. I guess that I had never really considered that before. Chemical engineering had definitely entered my mind as a possible option but I had never given it that much thought.</p>
<p>As to your other question, I am an out-of-state applicant.</p>
<p>I really think it doesn’t matter for any of the reasons you posted - premed, engineering, cost. JHU is probably more likely to offer you financial aid that will make it feasible for you to attend. But if cost is not an issue for you and/or they offer you the same amount, then I think you should decide based on non-academic factors like student body, location, social life, etc., because otherwise it won’t matter.</p>
<p>Also - I won’t say I’m <em>against</em> students choosing a school on the basis of being pre-med, but I don’t necessarily think it’s the best idea. So many students are pre-med before they set foot on campus but once they discover the variety of other things one can do to make money, they change their minds; or they may even stay pre-med but not get into med school or take a while before they eventually go. You want your college to be a place you enjoy, regardless of what you decide to do afterwards.</p>
<p>Hopkins. GT you will have less fun and get less personal attention. I guess the first is subjective but if you are a BME major at Hopkins, you are treated like a golden child.</p>
<p>Have your parents used the Net Price Calculators on each school’s website?</p>
<p>you’re OOS for GT, so not going to get much help there. </p>
<p>JHU would give you aid IF YOU QUALIFY for the amount that you need. But, you need to find out how much JHU would expect your parents to pay. Sometimes a school will give you aid, but it’s not enough.</p>
<p>Yes. My parents and I have done some research. Some aid is available from JHU. I’m assuming that this aid will not be offered at GT. (GT is public, as many of you have mentioned.)</p>
<p>I was also wondering, given the rigors of the BME programs at JHU and GT, would a lower GPA truly impact medical school admissions? I know that BME students, from a statistical standpoint, do achieve the highest average overall MCAT scores out of any other college major. </p>
<p>Would a lower than average GPA and a higher than average MCAT offset? Does the fact that you were enrolled in a demanding major make any difference?</p>