<p>norcalguy is right - places like JHU won’t let applicants they think won’t get into medical school apply by not writing them a committee letter, which is required for medical school admissions. Cornell will write one for anyone who wants to applying to medical school. This artificially inflate’s JHU’s medical school acceptance rate and deflates Cornell’s. Medical schools recognize Cornell as a very difficult pre-med/science school and if you do well there you will do well in medical school admissions.</p>