<p>Does it help your chances of getting in if you apply with no need based financial aid? I also heard that it helps your chances if you apply ED for BME, but i heard that if you don't get BME you are released from ED binding is that true?</p>
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Does it help your chances of getting in if you apply with no need based financial aid?
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One's financial need does not matter in the review process in a positive nor negative way, either for ED or RD. The only time need will matter in the admissions review is for international applicants who are applying for financial aid. </p>
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I also heard that it helps your chances if you apply ED for BME...
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This is in no way true. Applying BME is no different during ED versus RD, as far as one's chances for admissions to the University and to the BME program.</p>
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...i heard that if you don't get BME you are released from ED binding is that true?
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See post #5 on this discussion thread for a full explanation of our policy:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/546671-bme-pre-med.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/546671-bme-pre-med.html</a></p>
<p>Please note that trying to "game the system" by applying ED to BME because of this policy is not a smart thing to do. The only students who should apply to the BME program are those that are truly interested in that major and an Engineering program. Applicants who apply ED to BME because it can become a seemingly "early action" program risk that chance of having their application denied. </p>
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<li><p>ED to Hopkins is only for those students who definitively know that Johns Hopkins is their first choice school.</p></li>
<li><p>Applying to BME is only for those students who have an interested in that specific field and studing engineering at Johns Hopkins.</p></li>
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<p>thanks that helps a lot</p>