<p>I am trying to decide between Duke and Cornell (as you guys have probably seen my millions of posts) and am definitely leaning in favor of Cornell, when it comes to non-academics. I'm in both schools' engineering colleges and I know for a fact that Duke's BME program is better ranked than Cornell as is its premed. But I'm trying to justify that Cornell can put on a fair fight when it comes to premed/bio. Is Cornell's pure bio better than Duke's? And what about just premed, without any regard to the BME major?</p>
<p>Please help! Need to make a decision... by Friday!!!</p>
<p>BME with premed is very hard (insanely difficult at least based on my experience with friends at JHU BME… unless you are amazing, i’m sure you are…It’s ridiculously hard to schedule it all and execute and do well…)… It will be easier to go pure bio with premed than BME with premed…</p>
<p>AAMC stats have BME’s as the most successful major going into medical school in terms of acceptance rate. Biology has the worst acceptance rate (one must consider how many students actually major in bio and get rejected…)</p>
<p>Go to Cornell. No matter where you go, you have to be the top 10% of your premed class to even get into a top 25 med school… Focus on where you think you can thrive and be successful (forget about grade inflation, go to where you think you can be happy)</p>
<p>I would go to Cornell.</p>