<p>im so insanely jealous of you......</p>
<p>i got accepted, but in hindsight i guess i could have tried to express my love for quantitaive reasoning in science and math and whatnot a little better. plus, i could have done some research of invented something. the closest thing i did was build plans for a medical clinic in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>anyways, congratulations!</p>
<p>I got into BME, but I don’t know if I’m going</p>
<p>That’s a little unclear, so you DIDN’T get accepted? If so, sorry, at least you got into JHU! I was accepted to BME (woohoo!), and I didn’t do anything close to designing plans for a medical clinic. That sounds really interesting by the way. </p>
<p>The only thing I mentioned was my attempt at building a Van der Graaf generator in my kitchen. Other than that failure though I haven’t really done much engineering or research.</p>
<p>My S got into BME.</p>
<p>Now he needs to decide between:</p>
<p>Caltech w/ UCSD Medical Scholars Program</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>Johns Hopkins BME</p>
<p>Which one would you recommend?</p>
<p>I did. But I’m a little nervous because of how intense the curriculum is</p>
<p>Orkiman, I’m a Hopkins BME alum who strongly debated between Caltech and Hopkins (though not the UCSD program). I really really think that your son needs to visit both campuses and stay overnight. Caltech runs some sort of campus preview weekend, and Hopkins hosts a limited number of admitted students overnight before the Admitted Student Days (so sign up quick). Both campuses have a very different culture and atmosphere, I really think that when you’re picking between those two schools, the student environment should be a really important factor. Feel free to reply or message me if you have any questions.</p>
<p>Tanman, Thanks for your info. I’ll message you if I have more questions. My S is a kind of nerdy kid. He visited Caltech and seemed to liked it so far (many nerdy type of students there too) :-). Maybe he should also visit JHU so he can compare.</p>
<p>i got in.</p>
<p>i don’t know if i’m imagining it, but when i first opened the BME acceptance email on my ipod, it seemed to have the email addresses of everyone. its seems fixed now, but did anyone else notice that?</p>
<p>Never mind. That was carngie mellon</p>
<p>OP–you did everything the best you could and that’s all you can ask for. There are other students weeping who weren’t offered a spot. =] BME is NOT the only major here and if you do come here, you’ll find that =]</p>