<p>I am non-financial aid requiring international student with very good chances for Biomedical Engineering in Yale, UPenn Jerome Fisher and JHU.</p>
<p>Is Yale(1:1 stud./staff ratio, excellent curriculum, prestige etc) a better choice than UPenn Jerome Fisher??? Does UPenn have enough financial power to fund UG research, considering than UPenn has less endowment than Yale??</p>
<p>@OP Where does it say that Yale’s student staff ratio is 1:1?</p>
<p>The 1:1 student-staff ratio statistic is true only of Yale’s engineering department and presumably, honest93’s source is Yale Engineering’s promotional literature.</p>
<p>@honest93: You sound rather presumptuous and to a certain extent, ignorant (no student, much less an international, can presume very good chances with Yale, UPenn Jerome Fisher and JHU BME). If there’s something in your profile that makes you extremely confident, good for you, but it doesn’t justify asking on the Penn board if Yale is better than Penn (or specifically, better than one of Penn’s most rigorous and selective programs). </p>
<p>Yale has a better faculty-student ratio and a higher endowment as you mentioned, but neither of those things necessarily equate to higher spending on undergraduate research. In any case all three of the schools you think you stand a very good chance at are distinctive. Jerome Fisher, in particular, involves the additional commitment to a Wharton program. Your decision should be based on a broader and deeper consideration of your academic objectives that merely looking at UG research opportunities (which should be available in abundance at any one of those schools).</p>
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<p>I stopped here and lol’d.</p>
<p>well the very good chance thing is not unreasonable if he is “close” with important people and his family’s name is on a building or two…</p>
<p>The answer to the question is it depends on what you want to do. If you are hardcore bioengi, you can’t beat hopkins. If you want a world-class business degree that will turn heads no matter where you go, Jerome Fisher is the way to go. If you want a “well rounded” education, go to Yale. However, Yale is no Harvard in international prestige so choose carefully.</p>
<p>Yale has engineering? :o</p>
<p>Is this thread serious? </p>
<p>In all ‘honesty’ you’ll be fine wherever you go but for the more competitive jobs… Yale isn’t really known for being big on hard sciences…</p>
<p>Of your list: staff ratio doesn’t matter, prestige of Yale is below the other two for this field and I’m doubtful the curriculum is better either (there is a good reason other schools are better known as research powerhouses in the area you’re looking at).</p>
<p>If we’re talking about research, endowment again doesn’t matter so much. As an undergrad, you won’t be spending any significant portion of it at any school and most significant research receives federal grants anyways. Sorry to be a prick but I doubt anyone here is going to go along with the self-confirmation towards Yale</p>
<p>^I agree. I always found Yale to be more humanities based than most other schools.</p>
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<p>You’re funny.</p>
<p>His stats:</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section): 750M 680R 730W
SAT IIs: 790Math II 790Chem 790Bio
APs: Bio 5, Eng 3. Phy C,Chem,Cal AB, French
Rank: Top 5%
Job/Work Experience: Volunteered in hospital, Wrote exams for school, Research at University, Class leader, Nominated for University of Cambridge leadership award (result yet to be announced), etc.
School Type: Elite private</p>
<p>Not to be a total jerk or anything, but even these stats aren’t a shoe-in for top programs (or Ivies for that matter). M+CR alone for the M&T program at Penn has an average clearing 1500 or so. Your M+CR+W 2160 or whatever that adds up to is actually not that much higher than Penn’s average, let alone Yale’s.</p>
<p>Also, consider the 2011 admit data:</p>
<p>Rank/Percent Admitted</p>
<p>Valedictorian 38%
Salutatorian 31%
Other Top Five Percent 18%
Second Five Percent 6%
Total Top Decile 19%
Second Decile 4%
Second Quintile 3%
Third Quintile 2%
Fourth Quintile 0%
Fifth Quintile 0%
No Rank 17%
Incomplete Information 0% </p>
<p>Even at top 5% rank, that’s less than a 20% chance of admission for Penn in general. It’s going to be quite a bit harsher for M&T, which is fairly self-selecting to begin with.</p>
<p>I know this doesn’t answer your question, but it’s already been addressed in this thread sufficiently. I just figured I’d address your first statement there. :P</p>
<p>Honest-ly? </p>
<p>Tee-hee. :D</p>