End goal is academia. Would appreciate any thoughts, even if just on individual choices, or schools that should definitely be kept or dropped from the list.
MIT - course 2A (mechanical engineering degree with flexibility to take many BME electives)
Johns Hopkins - BME or BME+EE or MechE
Caltech - Engineering and Applied Science major - very flexible major
UC Berkeley - Bioengineering
Rice - Bioengineering
Duke - BME or BME+EE or MechE
Northwestern - BME or BME+EE or MechE
Washington University in St. Louis - BME or BME+EE or MechE
Columbia - BME (is core curriculum too time consuming?)
Brown - BME
Yale - BME