<p>How would you compare JHU's Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering program to other very good engineering schools like Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, UMich, UCLA etc ? Obviously, it's not as highly ranked, but is it as competitive and is it considered respectable?</p>
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<p>The short answer is yes. You would do well getting a degree from hopkins chem e compared to the other schools. Try to get in first. Your stats and misguided assumptions suggest hopkins would be a very long shot unfortunately (A 2030 sat for engineering is extremely low for hopkins)</p>
<p>Of course, I know my stats aren’t good enough. Sorry for offending you with my “misguided assumptions”. But I meant would it be worth it? Like e.g consider Harvard. Its Engineering program would be extremely hard to get into as well, but no one really considers it because it would be a waste of money compared to the schools I mentioned.</p>
<p>Makes no sense. I could go on and on. I have a PE (Professional Engineering license) and have worked in engineering, taught at Berkeley, received my Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford, etc. etc… Employers and grad schools will hold JHU and Harvard in much higher regard than Purdue and others on your list. US news rankings is not the end all. Your classmates on average at Hopkins, Duke, Harvard, Vandy on paper would be standard deviations smarter (based on test scores and other criterion) so a good GPA at hopkins would mean more versus some of the other schools. This is further validated by the Hopkins grad school placement. Everyone at Hopkins and Harvard and Duke and Vandy engineering likely would have or did receive scholarship offers at the schools on your list. There’s a reason why they elected to go to Hopkins, Harvard, Duke, Vandy, over the other less selective schools instead with potentially higher engineering rankings. It’s because they know engineering rankings are subjective, the curriculum (what is hoped to be taught) is the same, faculty at Harvard and Hopkins have potentially better awards/recognition (nobels or national academy career awards for instance), smarter classmates (makes the class go faster and allows to professor to teach advanced topics), and equal/better job and grad school opportunities (some investment banking / consulting firms do not recruit at all at some of the schools on your list while they do at Hopkins and other elite privates). </p>
<p>But then again, worry about this if you get in. You’re setting yourself up for disappointment by asking if Hopkins is “worth it” at this stage. It’s a bit arrogant, but Hopkins can afford to ask why should they even look at Sameer.</p>