<p>Even if you are not admitted into BME it is quite easy to get around it and study BME at Hopkins, and I am not talking about transfering into BME after your freshmen year because very few students do this. Please follow my logic.</p>
<p>First off, just about every branch of engineering here has developed a bio prefix concentration. Bio-mechanical, bio-chem, bio-materials, etc have all greatly developed in the last few years to compensate for BME being a restricted major. Another thing is that even if you are admitted into BME you have to concentrate in another branch of engineering, (such as mechanical, electrical, materials, chem, etc.) this is just part of their curriculum. There are numerous BMEs in my mechanical engineering course. So lets say you wanted to get into BME but didn’t, and lets say you would have concentrated in biomechanics as a BME. So you join the MechE department. You spend the first few years with mechanical courses as oppose to your BME counterparts (which are usually a joke anyway). Come junior and senior year though you take all the biomech courses in the MechE department and to complete the biomechanics concentration as a MechE you are required to take courses in the BME department, which they will allow you to do. You are merely taking their courses, not majoring in BME so they let you do this. So in the end you missed a few introductory courses in BME (that are basically meaningless) and obtained a much stronger background in mechanics from your first few years there while still taking advantage of all the upper biomechanic electives from both departments. So in essence you are getting a BME education without a BME major slapped to the title, might not be as good as majoring in BME but it sure is close.</p>
<p>Just some food for thought</p>