<p>Which is a harder college to get into?
If it helps I want to major in either physics or biology</p>
<p>Any ideas???</p>
<p>Cornell: Percent applicants admitted: 21%
JHU: Percent applicants admitted: 27%</p>
<p>I go to Hopkins for grad school. If you are a PreMed, I wouldn't suggest going to JHU. I've seen a lot of successful Cornell people in all-around areas (finance, engineering, science, etc.). Of course it depends on your personality and geographic preference, I'm just glad I didn't do undergrad here.</p>
<p>Johnny H what throws u off about JHU. Is it the setting or something within the school?</p>
<p>I'll admit, the campus looks nice. The surrounding area isn't so great. But that's not a relevant reason.</p>
<p>I'm generalizing a lot here but many would agree - the student culture at JHU is rather distinct: you have a lot of PreMeds and academics who are very "competitive", spending plenty of time studying. Now, of course most students at tough schools will have to study a lot, but many people have some sort of chip on their shoulder that they didn't go to a top 5-10 school. </p>
<p>While going to 'Johns Hopkins' has some sort of prestige associated with it, most of this is because of the med school. So for PreMeds, doing an undergrad at Hopkins does not necessarily better your chances.</p>
<p>Coming from HS, there are just a lot of social and interpersonal skills that you need to develop. Are there well-balanced, great people here? Of course there are. Remember, I'm just generalizing (which should be taken with a grain of salt).</p>
<p>my sister goes to JHU and i recently visited her. when i asked a group of 8 of her friends if they liked it (theyre sophomores) they all said they hated it. i think its cause it got a lot harder from freshman to sophomore year.<br>
but the social aspect is really good. the inner harbor is nice and there seemed to always be a ton of frat parties</p>
<p>Bio at JHU is very hard to get into: especially for Asian Males in NJ/NY/PA...:(</p>
<p>azn&proud, getting into bio is no harder than getting accepted under any other major [unless you are talking about biomedical engineering, they are screened for admission into the university like everyone else BUT theyll have to be screened again for admission into the BME program].</p>
<p>^^post #3. >>> 1.)</p>
<p>azn&proud, you are a little bit off in this regard (as i've also seen on the JHU). matthew929 is 99% right. BME is the only major with clear cut selectivity jumps. Though, if you wanna be a bio major, got a C in bio, 500 on the bio SATII, you will have a harder time being admitted. The major you select on the application does not tie you down to that major.</p>
<p>JHU is probably harder for Med.</p>
<p>Wow, that's really interesting b/c I remember someone telling me that only 5% of people who applied Bio to JHU from NJ actually got accepted. Are you guys sure the major you select does not affect the decision? I thought humanity majors were easier in admissions, but I guess I could be wrong.</p>
<p>like AdmissionsDaniel said, they accept students to the university, not to specific majors so no, applying to major in bio does not make admissions any harder than if you applied to major in humanities. =] and thats great news. for me too. anyways, when you think about it, it makes sense. a of the piece of "evidence" that illustrates why hopkins couldnt make decisions based on major is the fact that some admitted students did not declare majors on their applications and there are many more who switch after their acceptance.</p>