<p>By applying Bio-Med does it reduce your chances of getting into the actual school?</p>
<p>I'm thinking of applying for bio-med but i'm not sure if that would completely lower my chances of getting into hopkins itself for another major since they only accept 100 biomeds a year</p>
<p>First of all, they do not accept 100 people per year, that’s the typical entering class although I think it has been higher in recent years. Since Hopkins, like every other school, does not expect a 100% yield, they have to admit more than they plan to admit in order to fill their class. As for the actual number accepted, you’d have to ask AdmissionsDaniel or do some searching around the this and the Hopkins Forum.</p>
<p>Applying BME does not impact your chances of getting into the university. Applicants who choose BME as their preferred major are evaluated just like any other applicant. Those who are accepted to the university are then considered separately for BME. So it is very very possible to be accepted to the university, but not BME.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the OP meant by “Bio-Med”. If you’re talking about Biomedical Engineering, ditto to what everything YanksDolphin said about the BME (Biomedical Engineering) program. However, note that there are many other biomedical-related majors at Hopkins (including biology, neuroscience, public health etc etc) other than BME, and that you can major in anything and still apply (and get into) medical school.</p>
<p>Okay guys, I do not think that is what he is talking about. I believe he is asking if he puts “Biology” for prospective major and “Pre-Med” for prospective career on his application for JHU, will that lower his chances of admission. He is wondering that because a prodigious number of applicants to Hopkins probably have something along those lines as well, and he might not be a super strong science candidate when compared against all of the other prospective biology major, hence limiting his admission. Am I correct?</p>
<p>pretty sure it is bme because bio-med sounds more like bme than biology major premed…</p>
<p>also, i think the only major that actually says a # for the target amount of students in that major is bme… though i may be wrong… the “100” thing is a giveaway imo…</p>
<p>Hey not all of us are Vals/Sals/NMF/Intel winners/USAMOs/etc. Sometimes I don’t know why those people bother having “chance” threads when they have those types of recognitions.</p>
<p>And you’d be surprised how many questions I’ve gotten about the BME program from prospective students who have no idea what BME stands for and think it’s the “pre-med” program because it has the word medical in it.</p>
<p>So true. It amazes every year the number of applicants who select BME as their first choice major just because the word “medical” is in the name of the major. Uniformed applicants just simply assume that it must be our “pre-med” major. It is an ENGINEERING major … there is no “pre-med” major. I say or write that easily 3 or 4 times a week.</p>
<p>AdmissionsDaniel, have you thought about changing the application so that it says on the top of every page, in big black letters, “WE DON’T HAVE A PRE-MED MAJOR!”? :)</p>