<p>Hey! I'm new to this forum, but its really really helpful!
ANywho, I have a big question, umm....
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm pretty confident that I'll get into Hopkins for reasons including grades, location, same founder of both schools, and I really want to be a neurosurgeon when i grow up! And clearly this means that I'll have to go to a med school, and thus i'll have to do premed courses in my undergrad program. With that, I'll introduce my question.</p>
<p>Hopkins is the world's number one in BME. Bar none. And BME has everything I could want in one bundle, Math (FAVE), Anatomy, Bio, Chem, Physics, and quite a few humanities electives (cough taking Hindi and French and Latin cough cough). I know Pre-med isn't a major, and BME then would be my next instinct, as I heard from quite a few people that it is an intellectually demanding course that has all of Premed with it, and BME majors taking premed courses have a specialized schedule with Organic Chem I & II. </p>
<p>Is this true (mainly asked towards Hopkins students/alumni who did BM+ Premed, though taking this at any school would pretty much be the same i'd guess), and do the best med schools, like Duke, Harv, JHU, etc, like this path?</p>
<p>Thanks for responding to my first post, and I'm looking at Hopkins above all schools for its D3 Swimming LOL, GHETTO SURROUNDINGS, and INDIAN CLASSMATES ALL TAKING BME!!! :P</p>
<p>Hopkins rejects hundreds of applicants with amazing scores, grades, etc. They look for an applicant that would “fit” with the school…so don’t get too cocky just yet.</p>
<p>Our school has only had like 2 kids rejected to hopkins in the last decade, one because he was an idiot and the other because he was an absolute genius, but he didn;t bother visit. He got into Princeton and UPenn, choosing UPenn. I totally agree with your statement, its just that (this is really cheap) our schools had the same founder, and we’re a feeder school.
I got that from my college counselor hehehe
do you have any response to my actual question?</p>
<p>omg you’re in hopkins i didn’t see that how do you like it!? I went and visited with a friend who goes and i LOVED IT</p>
<p>Hey, I go to hopkins, and I’m a BME and AM&S double major, graduating next may. Yea I don’t think hopkins is that tough to get into, and it may not worth your expectations if you still have fantasy about college rankings - take it from me, you don’t wanna choose a college because of its fame and name value.</p>
<p>Anyways, you’ll hear a lot of this once you come to hopkins, but BME pre-med sucks. BME program itself is indeed number one in the nation, but BME people have hard time finding a job in the industry - with good GPA they are garunteed with research positions but pays are worthless - and as a premed, BME requires too many unnecessary “extremely difficult” courses, so just take public health or biology if you’re dead serious on the med school. You won’t need anything you learn from BME undergrad, once you go to med school.</p>
<p>Hi Hobal13, I just came across your post. wanted to check on your feedback as how your JHU BME experience has been. our son got admitted to JHU this year BME, he is interested in med school. do you know how many of JHU BME students have gone to med school either at JHU or other schools ?</p>
<p>thank you.</p>