<p>Hi community,</p>
<p>I was recently accepted to WUSTL and JHU for the class of 2015. I was also waitlisted at UChicago, Brown, and Princeton.</p>
<p>Do you think I should stay on the waitlist for any of these colleges or should I just stick with WUSTL or JHU? </p>
<p>I am planning to do pre-med and I have lived in Wisconsin for half of my life. I want to go to a place where has a lot of international opportunities because I have been living in shanghai for the past three years to end my high school. Which school do you think would better suit my needs if I am almost set on going to med school (Harvard Med is my goal!) I'm not afraid of working hard but I also want to have some fun sometimes. However, academics and getting into graduate school is still the most important for me.</p>
<p>JHU probably is your best bet followed by Princeton to aim for Harvard. They are all great schools academically but if you can get into Princeton, that is the most recommended choice out of the lot prestige wise as being part of HYPS.</p>
<p>Since Harvard fills 10-15% of the class with its own undergrad and distributes the rest out of a total of 165, you might as well be aiming to win the lottery. However, both JHU and WUSTL have their own medical schools in top 4 and some of their best students get admitted to their own schools (I believe JHU also fills 10% with their own students).</p>
<p>Don’t count on getting off any of those waitlists.</p>
<p>While JHU’s BME department is extremely good, Johns Hopkins (and above all else, its BME program) is notoriously very competitive and cutthroat. While students there deny this, rumors like that don’t just emerge out of thin air. I think you’d be much happier at Wash U.</p>
<p>In all objectivity, there are plenty of rumors of a cutthroat atmosphere at WashU that we both know are completely false.</p>
<p>I’ve literally never heard any rumors about competition at Wash U.</p>
<p>I spent an entire month at Johns Hopkins two summers ago. It’s a great school with a beautiful campus, and at one point I was certain I wanted to go there. But student life and fit is a very important part of being an undergraduate, so you should make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.</p>
<p>Youll have the same chances at Harvard Med from WUSTL and JHU. Your decision should come down to measures of fit. Personally, I would choose WUSTL as IMO it has a slight edge in quality of life (dorms, food, laid-back atmosphere, etc). However, you really cant go wrong either way.</p>
<p>Not to make any sweeping generalizations, but my dad went to Hopkins premed (and is now a doctor), and he refused to let me apply or even visit his alma mater until I matriculated at WashU (and we live 45 minutes away from Baltimore). When I finally convinced him to drive by campus, he drove in, started getting flashbacks, and drove 15 over the speed limit until he could find an exit.</p>
<p>You can just as easily get into med school from either, but you’re going to have to get through the four years first.</p>
<p>Another note: Both schools are in what I pretty much consider to be burned-out, heavily industrialized cities with plenty of less-than-desireable characteristics. St. Louis probably has a bit of a cultural edge over Baltimore, but Wash U and Hopkins both have beautiful campuses that feel away from the city when in fact, they are not.</p>
<p>Baltimore has The Wire… clearly +1</p>
<p>Thanks guys,</p>
<p>Any other opinions??</p>
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<p>St Louis has the Cardinals… clearly +2</p>
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<p>Ah, but if Albert Pujols leaves next year he will leave the city deserted (think the Lebron James effect on Cleveland).</p>
<p>My son is at washu class of 2015. It is a really hard school. He has a friend at an ivy league…thats a holiday camp in comparison. Anyone who thinks Ivy leagues are the best…they’re reading it wrong. Washu should be ranked higher than it is…it is a highly rigorous school.</p>
<p>That’s all well and good, but this thread is almost a year old.</p>