<p>As most people know, Johns Hopkins is excellent in Medicine. As for me, I want to study med. and eventually enter medical school? Does anyone know if Johns Hopkins is cutthroat or not in its students that study medicine? And does anyone know how many study medicine? I heard from people in my school that at Cornell people sabotages one another labs and stuff...but that could just be a rumor.</p>
<p>JHU premed = EXTREMELY cutthroat</p>
<p>NO!. The entire pre-med cutthroat myth apparently comes from some book about Hopkins published in the 70s. I'm taking pre-med classes like Organic Chemistry right now and I've never seen any of this crazy cutthroatness that people talk about. Lots of people work together in study groups to study for the exams etc. I heard all the rumors too before I came to Hopkins - that kids rip pages out of library book, sabotage other peoples labs and other crazy stuff - and I've never seen or heard of anything on campus thats remotely close to this.</p>
<p>Squarehead, you don't even go here. ***? No JHU premed isn't cutthroat. Come to JHU and ASK around.</p>
<p>This is the biggest myth about Hopkins. Tanman and Blah2009 should know - they currently attend JHU. To hear even more concrete evidence that Hopkins is not cutthroat, check this message board thread out:</p>
<p>Don't believe everything you read in out-dated guidebooks, or what you hear from random CC trolls. Go to the source -- ask current students at the school and visit!</p>
<p>Would one have to apply as premed in order to get into the premed program? or is undecided fine?</p>
<p>There is actually no pre-med major. You can major in absolutely anything and still be pre-med. All "being premed" means is taking certain courses during your couple years, so what you indicate as your major interest doesn't matter.</p>