Colgate or Johns Hopkins?

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Let’s leave the OP to receive advice from those on the admissions committee. He/She can easily drop an e-mail to a JHU professor to get confirmation of this as JHU has a very selective top 5 bio Ph.D. department. Their response is far more tangible than any “insight” you can provide.

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<p>By all means, the OP should ask questions of the unbiased JHU admission committee members. Maybe they can provide a list of where JHU grad students (<a href=“http://www.bio.jhu.edu/Directory/Listing.aspx?Students”>http://www.bio.jhu.edu/Directory/Listing.aspx?Students&lt;/a&gt;) got their college degrees. See if there aren’t a few who got them from schools no more selective and prestigious than Colgate.</p>

<p>Some programs post profiles that include this kind of information. For example, the Yale SOM MD-PhD program enrolls about 10 new students each year. In the past 10 years, one has come from Hopkins. Nobody has come from Colgate, but others have come from Davidson, Trinity (Hartford), Brandeis, UMd Baltimore County, Ripon College, Augustana College, Providence College, Barnard, and Macalester. </p>