best ivy for biomedical engineering?

milkTea11 · 07-04-2009, 04:06 AM

what is the best ivy for biomedical engineering? or even any well known college for biology/ good research opportunities???

chendrix · 07-04-2009, 06:35 AM

Cornell, Penn, Duke, and Johns Hopkins.

TchaikovskyPiano · 07-04-2009, 08:35 AM

Actually, for biomed I think Columbia is very highly regarded.

Epaminondas · 07-04-2009, 10:22 AM

I thought Penn was very highly ranked for biomed.

Feral24 · 07-04-2009, 11:35 AM

cornell doesn't have a biomed major i thought?

jakeiscool · 07-04-2009, 11:55 AM

i think minor^^^

milkTea11 · 07-04-2009, 02:12 PM

thanks guys =)
i was actually thinking about duke, cornell, and jhu, but wasn't so sure about upenn or colombia..

also, can you chance me for any of these schools??

sat2 bio m: 730
sat 2 math level 2: 800

sat : 2090

still need to take one more sat 2, any recomendations???

really appreciate ur help =)

somni · 07-04-2009, 02:20 PM

Isn't JHU the best for biomedical?

Feral24 · 07-04-2009, 02:44 PM

i think its jhu then duke for biomed

somni · 07-04-2009, 03:14 PM

Not that those are IVY's so cornell still wins

Cornellian2011 · 07-04-2009, 04:19 PM

Penn is the best for BME

bioeng · 07-05-2009, 01:12 AM

Penn has the highest Bioengineering ranking amongst the Ivy's.
However I would advise those who are interested in doing BME look very carefully into the actual curriculum of each individual program. BE at Penn is actually very heavily based in Math and Physical sciences as well as computer programming. . Whereas JHU and Duke are more Bio based.
One needs to make the distinction between Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering and Biotechnology. The curricula are very different. For example, if you are good in Bio and chemistry related sciences but not that good in Math and physics, You will struggle in BE. I hope this helps.

milkTea11 · 07-05-2009, 01:31 PM

thanks soo much, bioeng, that really helped!

I was also wondering if college visits factored into the admissions process? I read in a book that some colleges keep track of who visited the school and it is supposed to show that the student is more interested in the school and thus more likely to go if admitted...

because at first, i was only planning to visit the colleges that i got admission to before i made my final choice...

thanks for all your help!

Epaminondas · 07-05-2009, 02:55 PM

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I read in a book that some colleges keep track of who visited the school and it is supposed to show that the student is more interested in the school and thus more likely to go if admitted...

Those colleges tend to be a notch below Ivy-level schools. I know the Ivies don't bother with recording who visited; even if some do, whether you visited doesn't changed anything at all. The smaller, second-rate (shall I say?) schools bother with that kind of stuff to boost their yield.

jakeiscool · 07-05-2009, 06:52 PM

does any1 here know about bme at columbia?