<p>You should be advised that a huge part of getting into medical school is keeping a good GPA. Stanford and other schools certainly are home to some of the best engineering faculty. These include Berkeley, MIT, Caltech. It is, however, well known that the latter 3 schools tend to hurt grades. And make no mistake, while some of Stanford is said to be hugely grade-inflated, Stanford engineering is no joke to do well in, as I know from an acquaintance or two there. Now you may be confident in your abilities, and that’d be great, but in the end of the day, you should keep this in the back of your head, because if it’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth to make it into medical school from a given school (and how much is too much is really your own decision), you may want to reconsider. </p>
<p>If you want a dual major, you want to be thinking of what that other subject will be. Both Berkeley and Stanford are two schools that I like to say are good at most anything in terms of departments. That is a hugely attractive thing to some. </p>
<p>As for Johns Hopkins, well if you’re headed down the biomedical engineering + medical school path, it’s obviously a terrific school. But what else do you want to studY? And how sure are you of your career path? The most motivated students often ask the most serious questions about what they want to do after college, and hence can change their minds rapidly once they get to top institutions of learning and figure out what opportunities exist.</p>