<p>I'm having a hard time deciding. Location is not a factor. I'm thinking of maybe going into Pre-Med, but not 100% sure (I also have interests in liberal arts). Thinking of also possibly going to ivy league later for (HYP ) a graduate experience. Which one has the best academics/sets me up best?</p>
<p>I would narrow it down to Dartmouth vs. Johns Hopkins for pre-med, then decide from there based on whether you want to do BME or not</p>
<p>I would go for BME at JHU (I read somewhere that is has the highest acceptance rate into medical school). Then I would go for Cornell if you want a wider array of courses and majors (just in case you choose not to go premed). However, if you want a more liberal arts environment, go to Dartmouth. And if you’re a California resident, and you’re not getting the financial aid you need, go to Cal (also has many courses and majors to choose from). You really can’t go wrong with any of these schools. Just make sure to keep your grades up.</p>
<p>And here is the thread where they mention BME’s med school acceptance rate:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/553052-best-ivy-med-school-admission.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/553052-best-ivy-med-school-admission.html</a></p>
<p>That’s an awfully long thread. Can you point to me where the BME acceptance rate was stated? </p>
<p>JHU is the only top 20 college who feels the paternalistic need to prevent certain applicants from applying to medical school by refusing to write them a committee letter. You think that might have something to do with its acceptance rate?</p>
<p>If cost isn’t a factor, I’d pick Cornell or Hopkins out of the above choices.</p>
<p>norcalguy is right - places like JHU won’t let applicants they think won’t get into medical school apply by not writing them a committee letter, which is required for medical school admissions. Cornell will write one for anyone who wants to applying to medical school. This artificially inflate’s JHU’s medical school acceptance rate and deflates Cornell’s. Medical schools recognize Cornell as a very difficult pre-med/science school and if you do well there you will do well in medical school admissions.</p>
<p>Dartmouth for better advising and slightly less competition. Hopkins BME seems like a pretty weird choice if you’re not 100% committed to premed or engineering…I could be wrong but it doesn’t seem likely you’ll be able to take a ton of liberal arts classes there.</p>
<p>If he’s set on pre-med then there’s not really much of a point in taking liberal arts classes</p>
<p>Yea, you’re right. Doctors don’t have to know anything about reading or writing or foreign languages or ethics or psychology or sociology or economics. Useless.</p>
<p>alias you obviously don’t know anything about premed</p>
<p>It was 5 posts down by Phead somthing. I didn’t read much into the thread, but he said that he couldn’t find the article anymore where it stated that BME had the highest acceptace rate. In addition, he is a current JHU student so now I’m assuming that he has some sort of bias. And I wasn’t aware that JHU prevented students from applying to medical school. In that case, I would choose Cornell. Actually I did choose Cornell over JHU for pre-med, but I didn’t apply to BME. I really wanted to major in something specific and JHU didn’t offer that. Anyways, congrats on your acceptances! I’m sure you will make the best choice for you.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your responses! I suppose the only problem with the BME program is I don’t think my interests lie in engineering and there is about a 29 credit engineering requirement for the program. For those that say Dartmouth, would you say that it provides a leg up for getting into graduate school? Thanks!</p>