Is Hopkins BME worth debt?

ChrisTKD
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:00:50 +0000

kommunitycollege “So you’re saying that I could pretty much graduate with minimal debt given summer internships/scholarships? Also, do you really think I would have to “try” to be in the bottom half of my class at BME? It’s a really competitive program.”

I’m not sure I buy Blah2009’s position on debt and class rank. Nephew is graduating from JHU this May with ChemBME degree. He had internships every summer and his parents are still dealing with debt issues. He has very good grades but had to work extremely hard for them. I seriously doubt that you can be in the top half of any college class simply by not playing World of Warcraft all day.

BTW - first and second year classes were huge…about the same as you would expect at a large state university. Campus food is terrible and overpriced. More importantly the labs at JHU are not worldclass. Yes, JHU has prestige but I wonder whether they are trading on that a bit too much. Hopefully the JHU name will help in admission to a quality PHD program because he’s still trying to get a job. I can tell you that his parents really wish he had gone to State U.