<p>ok so heres the deal
originally i wanted to major in biomedical engineering bu now am thinking of aerospace instead (AHH FRUSTRATING!!)</p>
<p>anyway problem is: i applied to only good BME schools</p>
<p>So as of now Im still waiting for Upenn and cornell but am admitted into jh and washu</p>
<p>but of WashUstl, Cornell, Upenn, johns hopkins, University of texas, baylor, and case western reserve which gives me the best opportunity to transfer into schools like caltech, MIT, GT, purdue, and Michigan</p>
<p>all input and advice is appreciated</p>
<p>Freshman yr at Hopkins, I had a floor mate who was a computer science/electrical engineering major that landed an internship at Northrop Grumman or Lockheed martin his freshman yr. summer (which is difficult for a freshman to do). </p>
<p>Look at your options because renown firms typically recruit from all different types of majors…</p>
<p>Also, I changed my major like 20 times during the first two years of college until I finally decided on Public health as my major. I went in as ChemBE (basically BME without the mediccal emphasis and aspect in the courses), Art history + Chemistry, Earth & Planetary sciences, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, even BME…</p>
<p>It’s really too early to tell what you want to settle for as a major. </p>
<p>LOL, I have a question. If America’s air dominance is secured via the JSF, Eurofighter, F-22 raptor, or whatever for then 40 years according to this Boeing commercial that I just saw on television… What other things can you do in the aerospace industry… Is it primarily related to military hardware or… lol. I was just curious. What can you do with a aerospace major?</p>
<p>well i know it sounds kind of farfetched but i’d really like to work for nasa on their return to the moon in 2020 with my ASE degree
and i thought of that too…to look and see if any big ASE companies had a branch near one of the schools (wil def do now)
any one else?</p>
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<p>I hear Boeing’s civilian/commercial magically appear out of thin air, so they don’t need any aerospace people to engineer them… :P</p>
<p>My uncle did aerospace back in the late 70s and said it was the biggest mistake of his life. It just doesn’t have the job market that other engineering skill sets have and he would have been just as likely to work at an aerospace firm/company if he had a mechanical, electrical, or computer engineering degree but he’d also have other options as well.</p>
<p>Definitely do what you love, but that’s just some food for thought.</p>
<p>I think the pressure pre-frosh put on themselves to come up with what they want to do the rest of their life before they’ve taken a single course in college is crazy. A word to the wise (and not that different than what Phead said): You’re so much more likely than not to change your mind several times once you’re in college, don’t get too obsessed over individual programs, especially if you’ve changed your mind once already.</p>
<p>Go to the Hopkins website and, under “schools and divisions,” click on Applied Physics Lab. You will be amazed at what goes on there. Hopkins gets more funding from NASA than any other university.</p>
<p>well right now cornell and upenn are still hypotheticalls, but still consider them as accepted as you advise me
and really good sugestions so far thanks</p>
<p>I think Hopkins will be your best bet, but Texas isn’t a bad choice either although it is hard to pass up those other schools.</p>
<p>Sometimes people are surprised by the many areas in which JHU lead the nation in research. When the Director of NASA came to Hopkins to speak a few years back he mentioned to me that he had run some numbers prior to his visit and discovered that Hopkins received more NASA research grants than any other university. </p>
<p>When you think of Johns Hopkins, you may not think of world leadership in astronomy. The Space Telescope Science Institute, operated by AURA for NASA, located at the Johns Hopkins campus is the data collection center of the Hubble space telescope. They are also the HQ for many different space missions. Like *New Horizons *missions which is the first spacecraft to do a fly by and study Pluto’s moons.</p>
<p>JHU Applied Physics Lab supports NASA through space science, spacecraft design and fabrication, and mission operations. $600 million dollars a year (2X that of the MIT research budget) is spent by JHU APL on NASA/DOD related projects alone. There are teams who actually do mission operations there at STScI, so you can definitely go and check them out, talk to them, etc…</p>
<p>NASA knows Hopkins. STScI and JHU APL operates its missions on behalf of NASA, the worldwide astronomy community, and the general public.
You can collaborate with researchers at the Space Telescope Institute, many of whom have joint appoints with the Physics department who may be operating space missions, using information from Hubble to conduct researc, whatever I heard STSi has a really good cafe that many professors go to and eat. I went there, I got free food, and I got to hear Hubble Fellows present their research. It’s a pretty nice facility.</p>
<p>I’d say JHU or Cornell (which probably will give you the most well-rounded engineeing education)</p>
<p>Yeah, Cornell is another top choice as well. Engineering at Hopkins isn’t terrible, tied with Princeton/Northwestern for 14th at the undergraduate level… BME is the best program in America…(I would die for BME right now…)</p>
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<p>Hopkins(1) or Cornell(close second). The others aren’t really too comparable unless you factor in financial aid and/or environment, which isn’t relevant to the academic question.</p>
<p>well after reading about APL im really leaning towards JHU
but one question do undergrads get opportunities to work or intern in the APL
and can anyone post some links to where i can read more about my opportunities as an undergrad at JHU in terms of APL
Edit: would it be possible to get a MS in aerospace w/ a BS in ME</p>
<p>There are also opportunities to do research at APL during the school year although this takes some initiative on the part of the student. First, locate a researcher at APL doing the type of work you’d like to work on, and convince him/her that they could use your help. Whiting School (engineering) professors often work with APL people so they can help in this regard. Keep in mind that many projects at APL are classified, so you might need to get security clearance–which can take a while. Not all research there is classified, however. Second, APL has its own campus in Laurel, Maryland and, unlike most other JHU campuses, there is not regular shuttle service there. Realistically, you need to have a car or qa motorcycle. Finally, you are going to have to have some real skills to offer, so this is not likely something that you are going to do as a freshman.</p>
<p>Ok so heres the deal:
MY final list of colleges that i have been accepted to:
Baylor w/ 50000 scholarship over 4 years (not even considering now lol, unless someone changes my mind)
UT (accepted inot Undergrad studies…)
Wash U Stl
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>so any more advice for a probable meche E or aero major?</p>