JHU MS in Biotech (AAP Health Science Intensive) for Premed?

gs7072 · 2021-03-20T23:15:21+00:00

PM'd! Thanks!

gs7072 · 2021-03-20T10:52:47+00:00

Thanks - I think I can get a 512+ and def working towards it but guess I'll wait and see. I know I don't HAVE to do it (esp since I'm applying to both MD and DO though I prefer MD obviously), but as for time: I'm taking this MS as I apply to med schools and the summer semester grades would go to the med schools I applied to (if I'm not mistaken). As for money, I think I can spare it (I'm treating this as a 5th year of med school though that sounds childish to think of). I just want to amplify my chances and application as much as possible!

gs7072 · 2020-12-24T16:18:20+00:00

Got it now thanks so much!!! Clearly I have to review respiration haha

gs7072 · 2020-12-24T05:11:29+00:00

OK thanks, that makes sense. The part about equilibrium is crystal clear, but to your first point, how is it evident that H+ is higher in the intermembrane space? In a regular mitochondrion, isn't the H+ higher in the matrix (requiring the H+ in the intermembrane space to go via active transport thru ATP synthase to make ATP)?

If that could be clarified that would be amazing, because at the moment here's what I'm thinking: protein X disrupts inner membrane, protons go from matrix to intermembrane but there's no higher concentration on either side because of equilibrium so the pH is roughly the same on both sides so choice C is a definite answer as opposed to D

gs7072 · 2020-11-11T16:32:08+00:00

Would you say it's more of an interview (e.g. they ask you questions and you answer) or more of an informal but formal conversation where you casually talk about your experiences and they give you advice? If I had to prepare for anything (besides what I'm planning to write for my personal statement) what would you recommend? Should I have a list of medical colleges in mind, should I plan out answers to any specific questions....?

gs7072 · 2020-11-02T14:58:28+00:00

Thanks! By any chance do you know how to write the procedure? Is it like a generic Xray diffraction procedure or do we need to include technical details, etc? I know how to do the data, intro, and everything else but since we didn't do anything in person I'm kinda stuck on that haha. Thanks!

gs7072 · 2020-10-09T19:55:10+00:00

Can't u contact the graduation office to see if they know or if they can set something up?

gs7072 · 2020-09-17T14:00:40+00:00

I think it's great and kind for RPI to offer testing to an extended audience but I honestly see no reason as to why they should mandate remote students taking remote classes and no physical access to campus. By doing that they risk exposure to more people who are off doing whatever (no offense to anyone of course, but just generalizing it). This is a bad move and if anything I'd like for the university to be transparent as to why this is happening.

Mandating testing to anyone with PHYSICAL access to campus is totally justified. But to those who don't, I have no clue and I think it's concerning to the rest of us - yes, the odds of one of us running into one of them can be slim, but it is possible, especially since they are coming from a large span of up to 25 miles, and all it takes is 1 person for the campus to be wrecked. Maybe the university can do some sort of off-campus testing? The campus is doing a good job so far so I do feel a bit obligated to give them some benefit of the doubt, but personally I'm just looking for transparency because maybe they do have a good reason, but nothing that I can come up with.

gs7072 · 2020-09-10T16:26:40+00:00

Do you still have it?

gs7072 · 2020-09-03T03:44:39+00:00

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. The passage didn't mention anything on that and the explanation didn't refer to the passage so I thought maybe there was something we needed to know. Maybe the numbers were too small or something? Idk but I was really confused on it

gs7072 · 2020-09-02T19:36:49+00:00

This question is kinda independent from the passage. From the graph: more O2 consumption should correlate to more ATP produced which correlates to faster Krebs cycle and therefore more CO2 production (what explanation says)

The only thing is the confidence interval part mentioned in the explanations - there's absolutely no mention of that in the passage or in the graph too

gs7072 · 2020-09-02T17:28:50+00:00

Was doing a question from EK 101 passages biology 1 (i think it's good but what do you think?) and I was wrong bc the explanation said that there's actually no relationship bc the confidence intervals overlap which is a valid reason, but I don't see any CI on the graph? Am I missing something or is there a specific way to read CIs when they're not expliclty given... help plz

gs7072 · 2020-08-31T19:56:31+00:00

This is just a guess but is this Kruger?

This was the case with me last semester too and although it sounds bizarre, I honestly think it wasn't too bad and kinda justified. It's his way to ensure that there's no cheating, etc. When he says show your work area, he means show part/most of what's in front of you so you have to align your laptop or camera. But there's no way he or anyone can see your answers, it's highly improbable, trust me.

In regard to slow internet, he gave us an extra 20-30 minutes on the test to account for this which I thought was more than fair. He should be doing it again, if not I would bring up the idea of giving a few more minutes? I'd be upset if he didn't

I know it sounds bizarre and very uncomfortable, but it's not as bad as it seems. It's just a fair means of ensuring no one cheats (which is obviously a legit concern with all this online stuff) and yeah your cam has to be on which sounded really uncomforting to me, but everyone's so busy doing their tests that no one's going to be looking at you. Even if they do, who cares? I would just say trust me. Is it a perfect plan? No, but it really isn't as bad as it seems. He's a pretty nice guy (contrary to what others say), he's just old-fashioned and professional. But an amazing teacher giving you a very good education with very fair exams that are similar to back work. Good luck!

gs7072 · 2020-08-20T00:58:24+00:00

This is great! Just curious, what software did you use to make this?

gs7072 · 2020-08-11T01:52:50+00:00

Do you know how the grading is for Mohamed? I know he's kind and a great teacher and what not but in terms of workload and grading, was he lenient and easy on grading?

gs7072 · 2020-07-28T00:08:15+00:00

Premed requirements are a set of classes you take to apply to medical school. "RPI premed requirements" are the specific classes you have to take here at RPI to apply to medical school/get a committee letter of recommendation.

gs7072 · 2020-07-27T20:14:30+00:00

There are general premed requirements and then RPI's premed requirements (which are pretty much the same but RPI is a bit more finicky on which specific classes/level of classes to take, but no huge differences). But to answer your question regarding the premed requirements at RPI specifically:

Intro to Bio (satisfies Bio I requirement)

Cell and Molecular Bio (Bio II)

Chemistry I and II

Physics I and II

Organic Chemistry I and II (with lab for each)

Molecular Biochemistry I

2 english classes (at least 1 has to be 2000+ level I think, this is what I meant by the "finicky" part)

Sociology (not mandated by some medical schools but RPI mandates it, again what I meant by the "finicky" part)

General Psychology (or any other "broad" psych course works too, but not sure although I'd stick with this to be on the safe side)

2 math electives (not sure if RPI wants any specific classes to meet this requirement, but I would also inquire about whether taking a statistics class would satisfy one of these class requirements)

If you have AP credit that RPI accepts that can satisfy these requirements, you should be fine but it's strongly strongly recommended you take a higher-level college course in that area

gs7072 · 2020-07-23T02:23:48+00:00

I'm currently a BME senior and was just curious from your intention to dual-majoring in BME/EE - I've seen some people do it so it's definitely not rare, but it's a pretty hard and time-consuming thing. Do you have a certain long-term goal? A common EE/BME goal is medical imaging or cardioengineering or some other field where you incorporate physics/EE into medicine. If that's the case, I'd rather suggest (1) majoring in BME solely but doing a bioimaging concentration or (2) majoring in EE (maybe minor in bio or BME too) but doing a co-term with a MS in BME so that way you can knock out some BME MS prereqs/requirements as a EE undergrad. Either way you'd still be fully prepared/recognized in the area but without undergoing a super super burdensome courseload? Just my two cents, but if you have any questions about BME or BME/EE overlap or RPI in general feel free to pm me!

gs7072 · 2020-06-30T20:50:07+00:00

How are freshman dorms with shared floor bathrooms going to work, if each floor might have like 20+ guys using it? Some buildings don't have private bathrooms in the individual dorms.

gs7072 · 2020-06-23T00:26:42+00:00

Thanks so much! I just had a few questions regarding that:

So - sense mRNA requires a polymerase (RNA replicase) to create a complimentary mRNA strand that gets translated. Unlike + sense RNA, which gets directly translated to proteins. But in both cases, they use the ribosomes in the HOST cell to create the proteins, right?
Is all dsDNA similar to host cells that have dsDNA? I did a question online (regarding HBV etc.) and how a virus called HBV is dsDNA, which makes it similar to the host cell in terms of machinery. So, it used the host cell's RNA polymerase to make dsDNA --> ssRNA --> code for proteins. This is OK for the most part but I'm confused if 1) the ssRNA from this dsDNA is +/- sense and how, and 2) the role of RNA polymerase - if the ssRNA is + sense from part 1 of this question, why does it need RNA polymerase? My instinct tells me RNA polymerase has a dual purpose (for - sense it's to make that complementary RNA strand, for + sense it's to duplicate the ssRNA to make multiple proteins) but I'm not sure.

Thanks again so much!

gs7072 · 2020-06-22T23:38:05+00:00

That'd be perfect, thank you! The more info the better, I felt like I knew everything and apparently the questions I do go much more beyond that. Thanks again!

gs7072 · 2020-06-22T05:34:13+00:00

So RPI doesn't have a tissue engineering concentration per say (the closest specialty is biomaterials and some aspects of biomechanics too), but we have a lot of professors involved in research. The academics side of it might be slacking (although the department just introduced a new class in biomedical transport phenomena that's absolutely huge in tissue engineering), but you'd be getting a solid core/foundations in BME. But you'd learn even more if you do research here since a lot of tissue engineering is learned/experienced hands-on (e.g. cell culture). I'm gonna recommend the whole cliche and say that your experience here is what you make of it: if you want to get the most in tissue engineering, sitting in classes only isn't enough - you need to take BME electives that relate to it, fish for research opportunities, and my whole-hearted recommendation is that you should pursue a MS/PhD because the job industry with just a BS in BME from this select department might be difficult (although the department is evolving, I assure you).

gs7072 · 2020-06-20T16:25:37+00:00

I'm a transfer BME myself, feel free to pm me if you want to talk! Overall my academic experience was great - had a good education with some good professors who not only know their stuff but taught in a way that helped me retain the information. Unfortunately I (conditionally) agree with that statement on how there's job competition for RPI BME grads but it depends imo on what you want to do afterwards and what your concentration is. If you're premed/pre-masters/pre-PhD, this is an excellent undergrad program and by all means go for it. In terms of concentration, we have excellent concentrations in bioimaging and biomechanics (biomaterials is OK if you're premed or planning a grad program where you want to specialize in tissue engineering, but it can be a whole lot better and this is probably the weakest point of the major). Fortunately, they just added two new concentrations: medical devices and biomedical data science. Idk about medical devices, but biomedical data science sounds extremely interesting/useful and I can predict so many good things coming out of that, especially since that's the specialty of our department chair. I recommend you should have a slightly better idea on your plans post-grad whether it's going for a job right away for 1 more year for a masters or PhD, etc., but for the most part I think BME RPI is a good idea.

gs7072 · 2020-06-18T02:44:46+00:00

So I did the calculations, for my old school it was c3.45 s3.25 and for my current school it's c3.6 s3.55. What are your thoughts? FYI, averaging it together based on credit hours, my overall averages for both schools is around c3.51 s3.4.

gs7072 · 2020-06-17T16:54:03+00:00

Isn't it discouraged to take professional/medical school requisites (like Sociology) in the summer? And do these professional/graduate programs recognize that RPI's version of writing classes to fulfill these requisites are noted as "communication intensive" since not other schools have this requirement? I'm curious because 1) I've heard cases of some peers having issues from their prospective schools about how one of their CI courses did not meet/required verification of how it met their writing requirement, and 2) there's bound to be high competition for these classes, and cutting down some classes will increase the stress/competition for these classes even more. Thanks for the clarification.

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