<p>Any insights. D interested in BME/premed.</p>
<p>if she is serious about BME, JHU and Duke should be the two schools she’s looking at with a distant third being Cornell.
If just pre-med, all of these schools are fine and differ depending on what it is you want/look for.
also, JHU BME is extremely sought after. Students turn down Harvard and Stanford for a chance to enter and study at the program.</p>
<p>JHU offers one of the best biomedical engineering programs. Duke is also #2 for biomedical engineering. Your next choice should be University of Michigan, which has a top 10 biomedical engineering program. Good luck!</p>
<p>JHU, no contest. (The only place I would turn down JHU BME for would be MIT.)</p>
<p>JHU BME, but you really wouldn’t want our opinion to shape the next 4 years of your daughter’s education. Go visit both schools! Find out what exactly she’s looking for in a school. To be honest, the difference between the prestige or rigor is not large enough to compensate for something that your daughter hates at JHU. Basically, if she hates JHU for whatever reason, then it’s not worth going there even if she hates it because differrence in the prestige/rigor is minute.</p>
<p>The reality is that all of JHU is fantastic, BME is just a small part of the whole. Sounds like Hopkins would be a great fit. Duke would be a second choice unless she wants a city, then I’d say Columbia.</p>
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Academically, certainly, but a great deal more goes into a good fit than that. Unfortunately, the OP isn’t exactly giving us a lot of information. </p>
<p>Hopkins, Duke, and Michigan all have great BME programs. Cornell, Tufts, and Columbia aren’t particularly known for it, but that’s of little concern if the OP’s daughter is simply aiming for medical school. I’d like to see evidence that BME majors at Hopkins are any more successful than those at Michigan; the US News rankings get boring after seeing them cited for the 1267186th time. Certainly the BME career data at Penn compares quite favorably to that of Hopkins. </p>
<p>BME is JHU’s bragging point, but let’s try and stifle the Pavlovian slobbering at the mention of it. 
There are many people who really want to do BME for whom Hopkins (or Duke) is NOT a great fit. Unfortunately, many students are too quick to worry about department strength and assume they’ll fit in perfectly fine anywhere. Many kids definitely can, but not all.</p>
<p>All of that said, Hopkins is not such an unusual place (unlike, say, Caltech) that most students would not be able to find a niche. </p>
<p>Anonymous93 is correct - visits are in order.</p>
<p>Forgive my presumption. Visits are the assumption but based on reputation of department which is what the OP cares about clearly because that is the ONLY they mentioned, Hopkins is #1 in BME - faculty from the med school teach in the department, it’s small and heavily design based. </p>
<p>If other things were a major factor, they would have been mentioned. They weren’t. Therefore, by looking at the post if the only thing they care about about is the quality of the department, the obvious choice is Hopkins.</p>
<p>OP:
Read through a few of the other BME related threads on the Hopkins forum (all within the first page or so) for what I’ve written about BME. If your daughter is really interested in studying engineering and BME, then the Hopkins BME program is fantastic (I’m an alum of the program) and I would strongly recommend it. Duke (my current home) and Michigan also have great BME programs. If your daughter is really interest in BME, then I would narrow it down to those three schools. Ultimately, I agree with a few other posters that you need to visit the schools. Hopkins BME is a great program, but Hopkins isn’t the right school for every student, and the same can be said of Duke or UMich. The student culture at each school is different and that’s something that, no matter how much we tell you about, your daughter won’t really understand if she feels a “fit” until she visits.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me or reply if you have any questions about Hopkins BME or BME in general (or even about Duke)</p>
<p>Hopkins’ Program is great but Pre-Med is known to be a bit cutthroat. Might figure a little in the decision.</p>
<p>Torcher:</p>
<p>I’m a student at Hopkins. I’m not cutthroat. None of my pre-med friends are cutthroat. I notice you have not yet been to college. Why are you contributing then?</p>
<p>End of discussion.</p>