Johns Hopkins offers 50 majors across the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. On this application, we ask you to identify one or two that you might like to pursue here. Why did you choose the way you did? If you are undecided, why didn't you choose? (If any past courses or academic experience influenced your decision, you may include them in your essay.)
Our experiences often dictate our future. However, my experience with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and having spent countless hours in hospitals for examinations had quite an adverse affect on me. One would think that all of this exposure to the medical field for such a negative reason would drive me far from such a profession, but somehow, seeing how the advancements in medical technology were helping me only made me want to impact this field in any way possible. But while my experiences pushed me to one career, my interest drove me elsewhere. Ever since junior high, I had taken many diverse engineering classes ranging from engineering design to the principles of engineering to digital electronics. These courses helped me discover that I did indeed have an interest in and an aptitude for engineering and made me feel more confident in my desire to pursue this as a career. Rather than being faced with the difficult decision of choosing between these two fields that I was drawn to, I instead discovered biomedical engineering - a career that would perfectly merge my two interests and give me the opportunity to explore these two vastly different worlds. My desire to discover and learn is what continually motivates me. As a result, I believe that biomedical engineering is the ultimate career with which I can enrich my life with knowledge, and the education I can receive at Johns Hopkins, a leader in engineering and research, parallels my ambitions for a life filled with exploration.
NOTE - I added in the info about JHU being a leader in research because I was browsing through other JHU essays on this website and others had said that this question was secretly a "Why Johns Hopkins" question, so please let me know if you agree or disagree. Also, if you agree, should I say more about JHU? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
Our experiences often dictate our future. However, my experience with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and having spent countless hours in hospitals for examinations had quite an adverse affect on me. One would think that all of this exposure to the medical field for such a negative reason would drive me far from such a profession, but somehow, seeing how the advancements in medical technology were helping me only made me want to impact this field in any way possible. But while my experiences pushed me to one career, my interest drove me elsewhere. Ever since junior high, I had taken many diverse engineering classes ranging from engineering design to the principles of engineering to digital electronics. These courses helped me discover that I did indeed have an interest in and an aptitude for engineering and made me feel more confident in my desire to pursue this as a career. Rather than being faced with the difficult decision of choosing between these two fields that I was drawn to, I instead discovered biomedical engineering - a career that would perfectly merge my two interests and give me the opportunity to explore these two vastly different worlds. My desire to discover and learn is what continually motivates me. As a result, I believe that biomedical engineering is the ultimate career with which I can enrich my life with knowledge, and the education I can receive at Johns Hopkins, a leader in engineering and research, parallels my ambitions for a life filled with exploration.
NOTE - I added in the info about JHU being a leader in research because I was browsing through other JHU essays on this website and others had said that this question was secretly a "Why Johns Hopkins" question, so please let me know if you agree or disagree. Also, if you agree, should I say more about JHU? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
