<p>I already got accepted to Johns Hopkins under ED but since I didn't get accepted to BioMedical Engineering I can reply before may 1. Question is should I apply to Northwestern and Cornell too to see my chances? My major will be something like bioenginneering or biomedical.</p>
<p>yes, you should. unless you would go to jhu anyway, then no point.</p>
<p>but the problem is, if i get into cornell, northwestern, and jh. What school would I choose from? Because according to my knowledge, jh owns the medical field. And I don't know much about cornell and northwestern...</p>
<p>Nobody "owns" the medical field, and it is only pre-med anyway. Any great school will prepare you for med school. I would worry less about reputation and chose a school that you would be happy at. JHU is known as being very competitive for pre-med students. The word that students use to describe the environment is cutthroat, and students have been known to sabotage other people's lab experiments in order to improve the grading curve for themselves. </p>
<p>Your goal is to get into med school and going to an ultra-competitive pre-med college can work against you. It is better to be in the top of the class at a less competitive college than the bottom half of the class at JHU. </p>
<p>Also, it is debatable whether doctors really care where each other graduated from. Once you are a doctor, the other doctors are not going around feeling superior/inferior to each other depending on where they graduated from med school. This may be less true for doctors who are doing medical research.</p>