<p>Hey guys, I was accepted into Columbia Engineering and Johns Hopkins BME. I'm thinking of doing biomedical engineering, and then going into med school after. </p>
<p>I really like NYC and the well-roundedness of Columbia, but Johns Hopkins BME is #1... what do you guys think?</p>
<p>columbia BME is one of the toughest majors at Columbia, it is still a popular one (~30-40 kids per year). See my other posts, the kids at Columbia seas are probably better, but no worse than hopkins bme kids. Considering that Hopkins is knows for BME, it might have a better program than Columbia. If you are absolutely certain about BME and are really passionate about that alone, then Hopkins might be the better choice. I would say visit each and work from there, Columbia is a pretty special university in a pretty special location.</p>
<p>If you are doing BME, Johns Hopkins. Otherwise Columbia no doubt. JHU has AMAZING med school placement as well. If medicine is your thing, JHU cannot be beat, simply put.</p>
<p>(I know this because I have two cousins that are going through med school now)</p>
<p>JH for BME</p>
<p>if you want to be an engineer go to JHU …if you are using engineering as a stepping stone to another career go to columbia</p>
<p>BME is the second hardest major at columbia and has become alot less pre-med friendly since they changed the curriculum </p>
<p>basically BME is a risky choice for a pre-med: if you rock your classes you will rock the MCAT and you’ll be a shoe in for med school if you get the rest of your ducks in order…if you can’t hang you will be miserable and your GPA will take a harsh beating and it will hurt you significantly in med school apps…i was somewhere in the middle of those two scenarios </p>
<p>i don’t really know what you are looking for or why you want to do BME so if you come up with more specific questions maybe i can be of greater assistance…for now i’d suggest taking a look at the BME courses at columbia ([Biomedical</a> Engineering: First and Second Years - Class of 2012 and Later](<a href=“http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin-charts/bme/bme_1st_and_2nd2012/index.html]Biomedical”>http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin-charts/bme/bme_1st_and_2nd2012/index.html) and [Biomedical</a> Engineering: Third and Fourth Years - Class of 2012 and Later](<a href=“http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin-charts/bme/bme_3rd_and_4th2012/index.html]Biomedical”>http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/bulletin-charts/bme/bme_3rd_and_4th2012/index.html)) and comparing it to hopkins…see which interests you more. at columbia you have to pick one of three tracks (tissue engineering, biomechanics or imaging)</p>
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<p>this is a huge pile of bull crap</p>
<p>there is no such thing as “AMAZING med school placement” …you don’t get placed and your undergrad doesn’t play much of a role in your success. columbia has good pre-med advising and a premed committee… that’s all that really matters in that respect …JHU doesn’t inherently have an upper hand in any aspect that would make their premeds any more successful in the med school application process </p>
<p>…congrats to your cousins but that doesn’t make you any less of a HS student who doesn’t know what he’s talking about</p>
<p>^ that was a little too harsh.</p>
<p>ahhh i visited both schools. Still torn though. I really like the overall feel of Columbia, and the diverse strengths that it has. It has NYC, amazing humanities, and a vibrant student life.</p>
<p>Hopkins has a nice campus, but I’m not too sure about Baltimore</p>
<p>However, Hopkins BME is #1, while Columbia is like 15+… :(</p>
<p>At this point in time, I am dead set on doing pre-med, and am fairly set on BME…</p>
<p>what to do…</p>
<p>when you say that premed is a lot harder for BME’s now, what do you mean?</p>
<p>Also, I would really like to take some language courses. with all the required courses for bme and the core classes, is there still space to extensively study a language?</p>
<p>only a week left to decide… such a hard choice!!</p>
<p>Current BME pre-med junior here. </p>
<p>I think what Shraf is referring to when he says the curriculum got less pre-med friendly is:</p>
<p>1) There is less overlap between what is required for med school (i.e. Organic Chemistry II is no longer required for BMEs) and what is required for major completion.</p>
<p>2) We are now required to take courses in basically all the engineering departments. I still have to take a Solid Mechanics class (Civil Engineering) and I’m not looking forward to it.</p>
<p>With regards to course flexibility, I would say that it’s gonna be very tough to take a decent number of language courses. It’s hard enough to find room in your curriculum to study abroad. It can be done in one of the lighter engineering majors here, but BME is one of the most credit intensive in the engineering school. You’ll have the opportunity to take at most 2 language courses.</p>
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<p>correct…they dropped orgo 2 and orgo lab and added a bunch of difficult engineering courses. this probably puts them more in line with the curriculum at other engineering schools though so you shouldn’t really count it against columbia in this case.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posters if you are dead set on BME and Med School then JHU</p>