<p>Does anybody know stats of JHU ugrads success in getting into JHU med school?</p>
<p>4% or lower</p>
<p>This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get when working in the Admissions -- this one, and does Hopkins have a 7/8 year guaranteed medical school program (NO!). But as far as stats of JHU undegrads success rate when applying to JHU Med -- I don't have exact numbers but here are a few things to know.</p>
<p>(1) JHU Medical is every year one of the top 3 most selective medical schools in the world. The acceptance rate is typically less than 5%.</p>
<p>(2) JHU Medical's incoming class every year is quite small. It usually is around 120 students. Much smaller than most elite med schools.</p>
<p>(3) Factoring in the small incoming class and the huge amounts of applicants - it is simple hard for any student from any school to get into JHU Medical.</p>
<p>(4) Every year the largest % of the incoming Med School class is JHU undergraduates -- but it is a small number. From what I have heard the number usually ranges between 18 - 22 students. </p>
<p>The best thing to know is this -- if you are JHU undergrad completing the prehealth adivising track you will get into a great medical school. During your four undegrad years you will have access to an amazing Medical campus and hospital and one of the best premed programs in the country (93% acceptance rate into med schools last year). It just might not be the most selective med. school in the country.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>yikes! i always knew that JHU was the top med school (well tied with harvard med) but, well yikes! that is extremely selective! i guess that JHU med school admissions is not going to be easier by going to JHU. i mean how many JHU premeds are there? if only the top 18-22 of the best premed students get in, then acceptance is going be extremely difficult.</p>
<p>It wouldn't be the "top 18-22" students. It would 18-22 of the top cluster of applicants, since there are plenty of Hopkins undergrads who elect to go to another private school for a variety of reasons or who elect to go to a state school for reasons that often have to do with family and money. I would also say that Hopkins and Harvard do not neatly slice off the top 250 med school applicants. US News implies a hierarchy that doesn't exist in real life. This means that plenty of med students at Harvard and Hopkins (and the other top dozen schools) receive only 1 or 2 acceptances at top med schools. Never underestimate the arbitrariness of admissions or the depth of the applicant pool or the reality that it is very hard to differeniate between the thousands and thousands of people with A- averages at elite colleges.</p>
<p>What is the admission rate for BMEs into Med. School. I know most people say don't major in BME if you want to go to med school, but I'm a stubborn little bastard. So what % of the BME med school applicants get into med school?</p>
<p>i need to know scorp's question too...i'm beginning to regret being in BME as a pre-med.</p>
<p>I remember hearing the acceptance rate is somewhere in the high 90s (what this means is that of those BME's who apply to med schools, 98% or whatever the number is get in somewhere, not necessarily at their top choice).</p>
<p>From what I've heard, about 1/2 of all incoming BMEs come in thinking they will go to med school, and after four years, about 35% end up going, with the rest split between grad school and working in industry.</p>
<p>u kno monii, if u feel that u "regret" taking BME u can change as soon as u get to campus</p>
<p>TO ME, jhu will always be #1</p>
<p>well said irap</p>
<p>I'm currently a BME @ JHU. First semester so if you guys have questions specifically about BME I can answer them, but keep in mind, I just finished my first semester so I don't know all that much.</p>
<p>why do ppl say don't major in BME if you're going premed if 90% of BME gets accepted to a med school?</p>
<p>okay, "regret" was bad word choice on my part. more like scared or intimidated, but i still want to do it. that 90% fact [or maybe it's not true] made me feel a lot better. haha.</p>
<p>JHU medical school (like most other elite undergrad and med schools) only accepts the very top of the undergrad class. To get into JHU or an ivy medical school, you'd actually fair better going to a LAC for undergrad.</p>
<p>Honestly, I've never heard anyone say not to major in BME as a pre-med except here on CC. BME is a challenging major and GPA's may not be as high as in some other fields or at other colleges, but from what I've heard, med schools recognize this when the consider applicants.</p>
<p>scorp were the classes hard / time consuming?
the hidden grades is sweet. did that allow u to settle in easier?
annndd what was ur course schedule?</p>
<p>engineering classes in general don't pick up in difficulty until your sophomore year and really kick into high gear during your junior year. freshmen year is more or less taking intro courses and other useless blah before you get into the meat of the curriculum</p>
<p>BanKai my course schedule was the usual:
Calc I(4)
Physics I (4)
Physics Lab (1)
Chem I (3)
Chem I Lab (1)
Humanities Class (easy class) (3)
BME Design Team (2)</p>
<p>18 credits. Did I work hard? Yes I worked very very hard but that's becuase I came from a very under prepared background and didn't feel confident at all in my classes. I also never took a real math science test before and I wasn't doing well at first so I started working like crazy. I ended the semester relatively well, almost on Dean's List -- but I for the first few months thought I would be dropping out, but I made it, and I panicked like nothing else, I was going crazy. All in all the course load is much heavier than most other people but if you study correctly you can always have free time. (At least 3-4 hours per day to yourself or activities...) But you have to be focused, organized, and on top of things. That means you can't wake up at 12 and go to sleep at 3 AM. But you get a real satisfaction out of your work and studies, assuming you actually want to be a BME.</p>
<p>I guess what spe07 said is true but as a BME unlike other engineers you have more credits and a more broader curriculum (no depth is sacrificed, what is sacrificed to get a broader curriculum is you.)</p>
<p>That is most Engineers don't have to take Orgo, and most don't have to even take a second semester of chemistry, most don't have to learn about biology and physiology and whatever not in excruciating detail. You're learning to be an engineer (ie one of the traditional fields, granted not as throughly as people actually majoring in those fields) and you're learning a lot about the human body and its systems.</p>