<p>Hopkins is a great university, and its BME program is supposed to be great. You should be happy and proud to be going there, no question. Anyone who suggests anything else to you is, basically, ignorant. What’s more, as a BME pre-med at Hopkins, I think you’ll find that a much higher percentage of your fellow students share your interests than would be the case at most of the other colleges you mentioned. Your focus is more mainstream there than anywhere else. That can be a bit of a mixed blessing – one of the best parts of college is having friends with different interests, and learning from them – but Hopkins is certainly strong and diverse enough to afford you lots of opportunity to learn outside your major field, in and out of the classroom.</p>
<p>Please don’t get hung up on the my-college-outranks-your-college thing. No single undergraduate can take advantage of even 1% of any of the fabulous opportunities all of these universities offer, and even if you could tell whether University A offered 2% more opportunities than University B, that would have just about no effect on the life or education of any single student. And high school students on CC completely, totally overrate the importance of college brand names in the post-undergraduate world, and often undervalue the universities that get mentioned less on TV (although, at the moment, that isn’t Hopkins’ problem).</p>