Campus visit JHU
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Anonymous
| Planning on a campus visit in October. JHU is seldomly brought up on DCUM even though it’s right here in Maryland. 13 billion endowment. Plus Bloomberg money. A long tradition of research and medicine. A beautiful campus. DC is considering ED1 or ED2. |
Anonymous
| I live in Baltimore a few blocks from JHU. Like any school, Hopkins elicits strong opinions on this forum, but I encourage you to check it out for yourself. Be mindful that the Baltimore Marathon happens in October (maybe Oct. 10?) so traffic that day will be snarly. |
Anonymous
It's Oct. 18. |
Anonymous
| It’s an intense environment that I wouldn’t want my kid to be in but if your kid thrives in that kind of environment… |
Anonymous
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we toured and loved it. underrated for humanities imo.
intense environment in many premed programs, and it's less intense than even 10 years ago |
Anonymous
| Google John’s Hopkins safe and start reading |
Anonymous
That intense environment is pervasive — nary a classroom is empty when class is not in session. Just room after room of grinders, grinding. DC took it off the list. |
Anonymous
This comes up very often as a negative for certain elite schools. I'm not sure what the arguments is unless it's for an easy A. I want my scientists, doctors, and engineers to have actually worked hard in a competitive environment and risen to the top. |
Anonymous
Agree. Nothing wrong with hard work and hours of studying per week. I went to an ivy and was like that back in 96-2000. Spouse JHU. Same. |
Anonymous
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I was a graduate student at Hopkins in the biology program and it was rigorous, but definitely not harder than MIT. The kids were all super stressed because they all wanted to be doctors which require perfect grads and MCAT scores. I don't recommend it or any super competitive college (other than grade-inflated Harvard) for pre med.
I took my kid on a campus tour and it was impressive, very nice campus compared to some others. That said, I was totally turned off by the speaker that made disparaging comments about divorced families. It was totally not necessary. |
Anonymous
North campus is relatively safe. It's not actually in the bad part of Baltimore like the med campus. But you absolutely can never assume you are safe and stay away from young kids (10+) in the fall doing gang initiations. I'd give the same advice to anyone on a city campus - NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, etc. |
Anonymous
I'm the person above who lives near Hopkins and this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.. |
Anonymous
| My kid loved the school and would thrive in the environment, but we had an unfortunate 24ish hours in Baltimore. There was a drugged out person in the restaurant area nearby that was alarming, another lady that was unusually close to us as we did self checkout at cvs (she was stealing and said thanks to use as left, didn't realize what was happening until then), and then on our exit to leave the city we were stuck at a red light behind a car where the driver got out to confront the window washer boys. It was scary. I would have lost some sleep had he chose it, but I understand we likely had unusually bad luck on our short visit? |
Anonymous
| My kid is a recent grad. They loved their Hopkins experience and thrived but it absolutely is intense and your kid needs to be self-motivated and self-advocating from day 1. Safety was a non-issue on the campus, otherwise it was like any big city. Go HOP! |
Anonymous
Oct is a great time of year to visit I have two kids there now (both engineering majors) and they are having the time of their lives. If you have time to grab some food, a lot of students go to Hampden, R House, or the Rotunda (cute shopping center with restaurants and a movie theater) The restaurants on St Paul St are all pretty expensive and students seem to avoid them. They just finished the new student center which I heard is amazing as well |