I am an international applicant and a first-gen student.
Is BME worth the risk? I really want to get into JHU as early as ED.
Do other majors in JHU, like ChemBE, pale in comparison with BME? Do JHU graduates majoring in ChemBE have good grad school placements, as compared to BME?
I have only a score of 1520 on SAT, which may be a disadvantage.
Not sure but this is the UChicago forum not JHU. You should ask the mods to move your post.
I don’t see your score as a disadvantage. I know quite a few people here who have scores in the 1300s and 1400s, so I think you’d be benefited most by focusing on your essays
Also, other majors do not pale in comparison, they just simply aren’t as popular. ChemBE is known to be the closest in curriculum to BME, but you could seriously end up in any major in WSE and be fine.