Why is Johns Hopkins not mentioned much here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The neighborhood is really bad, and Baltimore doesn't have much to offer and college student.

Not true. I live in DC, but Baltimore has one of the best record stores in the country (Sound Garden), a funky bookstore where John Waters gets his mail (Atomic books) great art museums (Visionary Art Museum totally worth the drive up there ), funky neighborhoods (Hampden Road, Fell's Point). I think it would be a great place to go to college. JHU, on the other hand, can be a cold and competitive place. Thats why DC didn't look there.

[Anonymous]

My DC visited last year. Loved the campus, the neighborhood was fine, but he didn't like the vibe. He's smart and studious but it is super competitive and nerdy. It's also great for math/science types, not as appealing for humanities types. So more like MIT. For the right person a fabulous school, but it's not for everyone.

[Anonymous]

8:09, homeless people wandering around/near large urban university campuses is pretty common (not so common at LACs with a small, insular campus or rural campuses). UT Austin has homeless people all over the place near campus, however Austin is a very, very safe city. Berkeley has it's fair share of homeless people wandering around. I know parts of Hopkins borders rough areas, but I don't think a few homeless people should necessarily make you or you daughter feel unsafe.

[Anonymous]

I'm the Hopkins alum from above. How many of you have actually lived there or do you think that one visit for a few hours actually tells you anything? You're so superficial. I lived in the Hopkins area for 10 years through college and then worked at the medical center for 5 years. Yes, the area around the medical center is a bit shady and I would only go there during the day. But the area around the undergrad campus is fine. Charles Village is the 8 or so blocks east of campus and is fine. And the neighborhood north of campus going up to Roland Park is fine. Hamden to the west is only shady if you consider blue collar neighborhoods shady, but then some of you probably do.

I loved going to Hopkins as did the majority of my friends. It's a premier institution of higher learning with a small college feel. Unlike most of the other premier schools where you are one of 40K or 50K students on campus, here you're one of about 15K-20K students on campus. My best friends in the world are the gang that I met in my college years there and we are all proud of the education that we received there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins is a national treasure not a local school. It is the premier medical school in the entire country. Not for spoiled kids who need coddling(aka wussies).
The only institutions in the country that are irreplaceable are
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Hopkins
USNA
Stanford.

2 of the schools are in maryland. These schools fulfill a national purposes and needs.

Lol... So true. All the parents dissing the neighborhood change their tune when precious DD gets an undiagnosed or complicated illness. Then they march their butts up to Hopkins at light speed.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins is a national treasure not a local school. It is the premier medical school in the entire country. Not for spoiled kids who need coddling(aka wussies).
The only institutions in the country that are irreplaceable are
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Hopkins
USNA
Stanford.

2 of the schools are in maryland. These schools fulfill a national purposes and needs.

Lol... So true. All the parents dissing the neighborhood change their tune when precious DD gets an undiagnosed or complicated illness. Then they march their butts up to Hopkins at light speed.

+1000

The parents are all for socioeconomic diversity...for everyone but Snowflake.

[Anonymous]

I turned down Hopkins for undergrad because it was even smaller than SLACs yet also had the disadvantage of being just a small part of a university which places is big focus and dollars elsewhere (medicine). Wound up there for residency 8 years later.

The undergrad campus is not in a bad area. The medical campus is in a terrifying neighborhood. Baltimore is actually a really fun city for a young adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the Hopkins alum from above. How many of you have actually lived there or do you think that one visit for a few hours actually tells you anything? You're so superficial. I lived in the Hopkins area for 10 years through college and then worked at the medical center for 5 years. Yes, the area around the medical center is a bit shady and I would only go there during the day. But the area around the undergrad campus is fine. Charles Village is the 8 or so blocks east of campus and is fine. And the neighborhood north of campus going up to Roland Park is fine. Hamden to the west is only shady if you consider blue collar neighborhoods shady, but then some of you probably do.

I loved going to Hopkins as did the majority of my friends. It's a premier institution of higher learning with a small college feel. Unlike most of the other premier schools where you are one of 40K or 50K students on campus, here you're one of about 15K-20K students on campus. My best friends in the world are the gang that I met in my college years there and we are all proud of the education that we received there.

+1. Charles village is great and Hopkins has recently bought a ton of the neighborhood on Charles and St. Paul's to expand the campus. Baltimore is a great American city, with blemishes as they all have. That said, I would not recommend Hopkins for an undergrad- it's a pressure cooker, particularly the pre-meds. I was there for my phd. You all also know that the only reason it's not an ivy is cause they thought the football league was not competitive enough for them, way back when these things were being decided. Bad move Hopkins.

[Anonymous]

Why can't they clean up the area around it? Why are the better Maryland schools in pg County and ghetto bmore?

[Anonymous]

When is the last time folks were at the medical campus? The area's changed considerably.

[Anonymous]

The medical campus area is much better than it used to be. I was there for school at a time when it was way worse. Yet, no one I knew at school ever had an issue with car break-ins, muggings or anything. Not one student! I also lived in the area near the University of Chicago. Many (more than a dozen) students I know where mugged at gunpoint, had home break-ins, etc. Try going to the area around Wharton -- also pretty scary. There are bad areas around many good schools. Most of these institutions have great campus police forces and do a good job keeping things safe. If you stick to the campus, you'll be fine. That being said, I still go up to Hopkins several times a year for meetings, etc. The area around the medical campus is really changing and is nowhere near as rough as it used to be. I feel fine walking around the area during the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins is a national treasure not a local school. It is the premier medical school in the entire country. Not for spoiled kids who need coddling(aka wussies).
The only institutions in the country that are irreplaceable are
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Hopkins
USNA
Stanford.

2 of the schools are in maryland. These schools fulfill a national purposes and needs.

I'm not looking at the medical school right now, I'm looking at undergrad...

[Anonymous]

Right, have you been? A lot of faculty live close to campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins is a national treasure not a local school. It is the premier medical school in the entire country. Not for spoiled kids who need coddling(aka wussies).
The only institutions in the country that are irreplaceable are
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Hopkins
USNA
Stanford.

2 of the schools are in maryland. These schools fulfill a national purposes and needs.

Lol... So true. All the parents dissing the neighborhood change their tune when precious DD gets an undiagnosed or complicated illness. Then they march their butts up to Hopkins at light speed.

+1000

The parents are all for socioeconomic diversity...for everyone but Snowflake.

It is what it is... no matter the name calling, snowflake. It is the buttcrack of Maryland. I'm for diversity, but I don't have to live there. Why should I sacrifice my family's safety in order to satisfy your definition of diversity. Do all of us a favor and go live there yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't they clean up the area around it? Why are the better Maryland schools in pg County and ghetto bmore?

Where do you think JHU gets the free cadavers? Lots of homeless people there.

Same as GWU Med School. They have an incinerator in a basement next to Foggy Bottom Metro where bodies get disposed. It's an open secrete that Foggy Bottom residents are not aware of...