Is it good to go to the same school for undergraduate and medical?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey,</p>

<p>So I was considering going to John Hopkins for my undergraduate (Bio medical Engineering), but I saw that it also has a fantastic internal medicine program, and I really want to be a cardiac surgeon. Therefore, should i consider going to a different undergraduate school and then go to John Hopkins, or should I just go to John Hopkins for both?</p>

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<p>It’s Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins. The “s” is important. We get mad</p>

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<p>Go to any school that will minimize undergraduate debt, allow you to fulfill pre-med requirements, and preferably has some degree of grade inflation. I don’t think where you get your undergrad degree has a big impact on getting accepted - or at least not nearly as much as your GPA - but I might be wrong here.</p>

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<p>Don’t get set on one medical school. The average student at JHU med school has a 3.9 GPA and a 38 on the MCAT. </p>

<p>If JHU gives you good financial aid, it could be a good choice. From 2003-2008, 88% of JHU students with a 3.3+ GPA got into at least 1 US MD school. Don’t pay $60k per year for JHU undergrad expecting to go to their med school.</p>

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<p>Most pre-med students would be delighted to have just one med school admission. Don’t worry about this just yet. Worry about finding a good pre-med program that will leave you with the best GPA, best prep for the MCAT, and least amount of debt.</p>

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<p>I agree with the above posters. Find a good undergrad program that will leave you with the least amount of debt. Medical school can get rather pricey-save as much as you can on undergrad and use it for med school. I would recommend applying for more than one med program (obviously) since they are very competitive- Johns Hopkins especially. Don’t get your mind set on JHU.</p>

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<p>*fantastic internal medicine program, *</p>

<p>That would be a consideration for your residency. Not really for med school. You don’t specialize in med school. </p>

<p>I agree that you shouldn’t get your heart set on any ONE particular med school. All US MD schools are very good. You’ll be lucky to get into any of them. Each one has a low acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Are you the only one using this CC acct?</p>

<p>You’ve recently posted several different ACT and SAT scores.</p>

<p>Also, in some posts you’re asking about ivies and some you’re saying that you’re going to UI-Chicago.</p>

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<p>Don’t get too set on JHU BME. It is the most competitive BME program out there. There are only ~100 seats available. I recall reading that in a recent year, <20% of applicants were accepted to JHU. Of those accepted applicants who applied for BME, only 30% were accepted. </p>

<p>In other words, even if you are good enough to get into JHU, which is a feat in itself, you still have to beat out over 2/3 of the accepted applicants who also want BME.</p>

<p>In addition, BME is not a straight shot to med school. Only 1/3 of BME undergrads go on to med school.</p>

<p>Source: I’ve applied to Johns Hopkins for biomedical engineering, so it has been a point of interest in my college research. I’m going from memory, but I’m pretty much certain this is accurate.</p>

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<p>*BME is not a straight shot to med school. *</p>

<p>this can’t be said enough…for any school.</p>

<p>Too many premeds seem to think that biomedE will impress the med school adcoms. In the end, they often end up with GPA’s that aren’t med school worthy. </p>

<p>And med schools don’t care about the major.</p>

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<p>Alexandre and I examined the data while back. It seems that most high quality medical school don’t take very of their own undergraduates (this includes JHU.) It’s usually capped at around 20% max, with Michigan being an exception at over 30%.</p>

<p>c.f. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1538234-whopping-55-university-michigan-alums-placed-years-medical-school-class.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-michigan-ann-arbor/1538234-whopping-55-university-michigan-alums-placed-years-medical-school-class.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Why do you assume that most Bio-medical engineering students are pre-med to begin with?</p>