<p>Quick question. Since Boston University's Biomed Engineering major is ranked one of the best in the nation, is the admissions selectivity affected by choosing that major? Seeing BU's fact sheet and some other info, it seems like I'm well qualified to get into the school (2230SAT, 750 MathII, 760 Chem, 4th/600, blah, blah), but I was wondering if the admissions info would be different regarding the major I chose. </p>
<p>Thank you...</p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p>It is extremely common for the Engineering College to have different admissions criteria than the Arts and Sciences College. Some colleges even have different criteria for the different engineering majors within the engineering college, but this is less common. I'm not sure about BU. If you indicate it on the application as a different college within the univ, then it probably does.</p>
<p>bump..</p>
<p>errr it depends. I know for Johns Hopkins they do two things</p>
<p>1) They treat u differently if u have a premed major listed (more lenient sorta)</p>
<p>2) U don't list pre-med but end up switching later (they make it hard)</p>
<p>so as the college ...</p>
<p>ejc2008 what are you saying?
JHU doesn't have a premed major. Biomedical Engineering is not another word for "premed" in fact it's one of the worst ways you can go premed. Unless you explicitly tell JHU that you're premed they have no way of knowing, not everyone majoring in "bio---" is premed. Having said that, anyone can become premed at any time without having to do anything special as long as they take the required classes (yes, even at JHU.)
What JHU does is it won't allow you to switch into BME unless you were accepted into BME but that is because BME at JHU extermely popular and extremly difficult, requiring people to be very focused and taking the right courses from day 1.</p>
<p>Scorp, could you elaborate on BME being one of the worst ways to go Pre-Med?</p>