Majors: Acceptance Rates

laxfan04
Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:25:07 +0000

All applicants are looked at the same way by the Admissions committee, including the BME applicants. The adcoms are interested in an applicant’s intended major(s) so that they can match up academic strengths and weaknesses to those areas. What I mean, is that an applicant to the electrical engineering program needs to be reviewed differently (more emphasis on math and science work) then someone applying to the Classics major (more emphasis on english, history, and languages). Applicants are lumped pretty much into humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, or undecided and that is how major plays a factor.

The exception with BME is not for general admission to JHU but rather admissions into the BME major specifically, which is quite competitive. A BME major has the same shot for admission as any other major – the selectivity is for entrance directly into the major.

Hope that helps a bit.

(And yes, pre-med is not a major.)