<p>I know that it's extremely competitive to gain admissions into the BME program at JHU. Does anyone have any statistics on average GPA, SAT, etc?</p>
<p>My science and math GPA is somewhat low at 3.7 (UW), but 4.0 (W). My SAT II's, however, are close to 800. Overall, my GPA's around 3.8; SAT score's around 1550. I'm also planning to do research at nationally known university in biomedical. Am I a competitive candidate...at least for Early Decision, or in the worst case, RD?</p>
<p>are you a junior now?</p>
<p>i think you're a competitive candidate, and above average.</p>
<p>yet i dont think there is formal statistics on gpa or sat only for BME.</p>
<p>if you show great interests and perhaps apply ED, you have a real solid shot.
(have you ever done any research or intern stuffs relating to engineering or BME? if that's case, it's more likely... of course.)</p>
<p>yarr03: Yes, I'm currently a junior.</p>
<p>dreaming: I'm applying to several BME summer research programs, and will hopefully get accepted into 1 or 2 of them.</p>
<p>My main concern is that many students who applied ED to JHU for Class of '09 weren't accepted yet for BME, but were accepted to JHU. Since my science GPA is lacking, I'm concerned it'll make me a flat-out reject at BME.</p>
<p>i dont think your GPA is lacking at all. 3.8 is VERY good gpa. (what's your ranking?)
esp. you back up your caliber with high SAT1 and 2 scores.
and that research program if you got in, will furthermore put you in very good spot.</p>
<p>p.s : accept to JHU but not yet to BME is kinda common practice by JHU, i think.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, dreaming!</p>
<p>Check your inbox for my message. :)</p>
<p>if you demonstrate on your application that you're mainly interested in BME, you'll likely just get rejected in the spring if you don't make the BME cut. However, if you're most interested in bme but also show a strong interest in one or more other fields (esp. another Engineering major), you have a better shot at being admitted to JHU even if you don't get into the BME program. JHU will only admit students who show a big interest in Hopkins- and one's interest in the college is more important to admissions than one's specific interest in the nation's most highly regarded undergrad BME program.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm really interested in JHU as a whole. I'm also looking to minor in their Writing and International Studies programs and perhaps Economics as well. JHU's got everything I need for a school that meets what I want. I just hope I'm the type of student they want! :)</p>
<p>You can't minor in International Studies at Johns Hopkins. The major is interdisciplinary and very rigorous, requiring courses from Poli Sci, History, Econ and language departments for the major. I think that you can minor in Writing Seminars, however. The English and History Departments at JHU are among JHU's finest programs, however, they may only offer majors- not minors. Because there's no core, you have a lot of academic freedom anyway.</p>
<p>im also wondering about the same thing.. what are the BME admission rates?</p>
<p>I'm a current BME freshmen</p>
<p>BME acceptance rate overall : 22% (that includes ED, if I remember)
Average SAT I :1470</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, javis!</p>
<p>I'm somewhat surprised that the average SAT score is lower than I expected...</p>
<p>unless BME major gets into med school, what does he do?
I searched the Net for average salary of biomed engineers and it was like 30~50K, which isn't too high. Just wondering. Does anyone know average salary of JHU BME grads?</p>
<p>There are plenty of fields BME students get into. Most BMEs are NOT pre-med. Most (if I remember right) apply for grad school (masters, Ph.D). BME kind of jobs are in research (NIH,NCI), drug developement, chemical engineering, and bme device engineerning (prosthetics). Some go even go into software developement (like my NCI supervisor).</p>
<p>The salary may be deflated because most statistics consider BME technicians as the "real" BME. No offense to the technicians, but they are for maintenance and not developement/research. For BME with a master's degree the average is $62,600 (The Whitaker Foundation), which still isn't close to physician's salary.</p>
<p>If you are interested in BME for med school. Of the BME students who applied to med school (~20% if I remember), 90% have been accepted to some med school(not necessarily the top ones). Still I think it's a better idea to be a bio/chem major and ditch engineering, because engineering here will kill your GPA if your not up to the task.</p>
<p>I was originally considering pre-med when I first came here, but after talking to some JHU med school (two of them) admissions officers I don't think I will be. The truth is that GPA/Standardized test scores are the biggest factor and not necessarily the diffuculty of the major. I think I'll be able to make the test scores (most BME students(who take it) score surprisingly well in MCATs), may not be the 4.0 that they want to see (though they say a 3.5 at JHU is really good). And after that heated arguement about med school bureaucracy, I gave up.</p>
<p>hope that helps</p>