<p>You will be able to find a lot of info on premed tracks at these schools in the premed forum on these boards.</p>
<p>Neither MIT nor JHU recommend a BME major if your main interest is premed. These programs are increasingly geared to students finding jobs straight out of college or continuing for a graduate engineering degree. The engineering track is intense at both schools and your GPA will tend to be lower than students majoring in biology, chemistry or neuroscience, three big areas for premeds. So unless you stick to engineering, grade deflation should not be a factor. </p>
<p>Acceptance rates to top med schools at MIT range from 75 to 80%. This may appear low compared to some other schools which claim higher acceptance rates but have a very active screening process where only the top students get recommendation letters to med schools. At MIT there are no “weeder” classes and nobody is discouraged from applying to med school. I have no acceptance data by major, but I suspect a lower acceptance rate among engineering majors compared to biology or chemistry majors who have to take all the premed requirements as part of their major. The atmosphere at MIT is definitely not as cutthroat for premeds as places such as Cornell, UCLA or even JHU with larger numbers of premed students. </p>
<p>Only Harvard gets more students into HMS than MIT , and MIT has a number of joint advanced programs with Harvard including a joint MD/PhD.</p>