<p>... Such as from professors, faculty advisors etc. And how different might it be?</p>
<p>I'm concerned about the fact that since the school has so many premeds, the professors may focus on getting them into med school more, offering them more research etc etc. Based on your experiences, do this and will this tend to happen?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Not at all. The only faculty and staff that are concerned with helping students with medical school admissions are those on the Pre Professional Advisory Committee which focuses on pre health proffessionals. See [JHU</a> Pre-Professional Advising](<a href=“Pre-Professional Advising | Student Affairs”>Pre-Professional Advising | Student Affairs) Contrary to urban legend, while Hopkins does have a lot of students applying to medical school (@20-25% of the class), it does not view itself as a premed factory and faculty are more likely to do what they can to dispell that myth. This is clearly not something to worry about.</p>
<p>There is no premed major at Hopkins. I do not think there is even a way for faculty to know if you are premed or not unless you specifically tell them so or sign up for some premed newsletter that the advising center offers, and even that latter part is probably only for your information only. I highly doubt the newsletter reveals that information to faculty or that faculty would take an effort to care and look into who is premed or not.</p>
<p>Naturally, advisors will advise people differently if you are premed vs. not in terms of what classes to take and such, but beyond that, there is nothing different.</p>
<p>Arts and Crafts is what engineering students call other majors lol</p>
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<p>Never seen this at JHU. BME is hard, but I don’t think that anyone views A&S majors like Econ or Bio as easy majors.</p>
<p>They do though I have a shirt from freshman year that says Arts and Crafts but i wore it with pride. Its a joke. Everywhere you go some snot nosed engineer will mock the sociologist but so what?</p>
<p>There is a mostly sarcastic competitiveness between arts & sciences and the engineering program. It’s all in good fun. If you are an arts & sciences major you will not be treated any differently by the faculty or anyone else. And as already mentioned, there’s no way to distinguish a pre-med from a non pre-med.</p>
<p>I know of only one person who was condescending due to my being an A&S major.</p>
<p>I was waiting for a security van to go to CVS, and I couldn’t see the one I was supposed to go on. Apparently there were two, but the other one was behind the other and I simply couldn’t see it.</p>
<p>I have no idea how this is relevant, but there was another guy waiting for the same van and we were talking a little. He commented on my not knowing where the other van was or something like that, and asked me what my major was, asking me if I was an English major or something. in this condescending tone. I told him I was a neuroscience and philosophy major, and he said, “Philosophy; that explains it.” He just had this snarky tone and everything he said made no sense. So what if I can’t see a van? I’m only five feet tall; I can’t see a lot of things!</p>
<p>To answer the OP, I would say yes, but perhaps not in the way that you were getting at with your original question. The professors will treat students differently in the sense that they will look more favorably on students who are genuinely interested in the course material that they are teaching. On the other hand, those students who are only there to get an A and do not demonstrate any interest at all in what they are learning will not be looked at favorably. I believe that this general rule applies regardless of what major you are.</p>