<p>Today was probably the worst day ever. But, I just got an email telling me that I got accepted into JHU BME. Today was just made infinitely better.</p>
<p>Me too! Congrats dude, best BME program in the country man! Glad you’re feelin better!</p>
<p>JHU WOOOO
-Michael</p>
<p>CONGRATS :D</p>
<p>me too! i’m soo excited!!</p>
<p>me as well!
how selective is this program, and can successful graduates of the program go on to top med schools?</p>
<p>same here! i just got rejected to CMU yesterday and i thought i would get rejected, but i got in jhu AND for BME!</p>
<p>High five! Congratulations, everyone!</p>
<p>Awesome guys! Congrats all! :-)</p>
<p>@Trollinon24z From what I hear, approximately 1/3 of the admitted applicants to BME get into BME, so pretty selective.</p>
<p>I was told at my info session that there are ~100 BME’ers per year. Dunno what their yield is, but I guess that means they admit a couple hundred to BME.</p>
<p>Congrats guys! I got accepted to the university but rejected from BME</p>
<p>Same here. CONGRATS!</p>
<p>Same here with everyone. I found some sites that actually rates JHU’s BME major over even Harvard. Considering I got waitlisted to 6 schools, this is an amazing surprise!</p>
<p>Surprisingly, I got in as well. JHU BME ftw. What exactly is biomedical engineering, anyhow? I am dying to know the exact acceptance rate this year.</p>
<p>Congrats from a BME Alum! Feel free to post or message me if you have any questions about the BME program at Hopkins. (It may take me a few days to reply, but I’ll definitely get back to you!)</p>
<p>Got in as well! But in the 3 months since I last submitted my application, I have lost interest in premed. :(</p>
<p>Tanman - I don’t know exactly how to ask this. I’m wondering what it’s like to major in BME. As a mom, I’m worried that it’s so full of over-the-top, driven kids that it’s a miserable experience. On our tour, I asked that question, and the tour guide said that if you’re interested in the field, you love what you’re doing, and so you don’t mind doing all the work. What’s your view on the subject? Also, do you have any sense of what percentage of students that start out in BME at JHU stay in that major all four years?</p>
<p>iceui2 - it is my sense that most students in BME and at Hopkins, in fact, are not pre-med so that shouldn’t effect whether you consider Hopkins for university study. English, all Engineering majors, International Relations and Economics are incredible programs at JHU. JHU should be on your list no matter what you want to study. </p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>HoComom - definitely a legitimate question. I think your tour guide hit the nail on the head. BME is by no mean an easy major. As another poster once put it “studying BME at Hopkins to get to med school is like climbing Mount Everest to get a breath of fresh air”. Even if your DS/DD isn’t pre-med, I think the gist of the statement still applies. That said, the people who are in BME are there because they really love what they’re studying. BME is definitely full of driven kids but I wouldn’t by any means call it a miserable experience. Yes, there will undoubtedly be long nights of programming and problem sets but, as odd as this may seem, I actually tended to enjoy these nights because they were almost always spent with group of my classmates trying to solve an interesting problem. I was a BME-Economics double major and I can tell you that I was far more miserable studying for my (admittedly easier) econ exams than doing BME problem sets. BME isn’t a major where you’re going to be sitting around memorizing facts for hours on end. Your problems sets, and your exams, make you think creatively about how to solve challenging problems. I think a very telling fact about the BME experience is that in addition to their academics and their research (which most BME students do), BME students are extremely involved in other activities on campus. Many non-BME related student groups were led by BME students in my years at Hopkins (from the Math Club to Model United Nations), and many BME students pursue classes, minors, or double majors in other non-science fields. </p>
<p>BME is by no means an easy experience, but I have no doubt that I made the right decision 6 (yikes) years ago when I chose to go into the program. As far as the number of students who stay in the program: I only know of a handful of people who dropped out of the BME program. People tend to drop for one of two reasons, in my experience: either they realize their passion is something completely different from BME, or they’re in it only to get to med school and realize there are far easier ways than a math-intense engineering program. I get the feeling that most people coming into the program now have a good sense of what BME is (ie a true engineering discipline, not a “special pre-med program” as one prospective student told me it was a few year ago) and the admissions office does a good job picking a class who is actually interested in the program because they want to study BME.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Tanman - thanks so much for your thoughtful reply! I’ll pass it on to my daughter.</p>
<p>tanman, thanks for the QA session! I noticed youre from houston too; how was the transition to baltimore? I know it has been asked to death, but what did you think of the neighborhood? and if you don’t mind me asking, what area of houston did you live in? (don’t want to be intrusive, so be as broad as you want).</p>
<p>Thanks!
Michael</p>
<p>Hey guys I am new to this website and i have a hard decision to make… i am accepted to Jonhs Hopkins biomedical engineering, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Tufts, an Princeton (I didnt get any rejections WOOHOOO). I really want to study biomedical engineering! Can you give me some advice? I hear JH has a great BME program, but how does it copare to MIT?</p>