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[Anonymous]

IMO, a descendant of a German (esp. Nazi) living in Argentina, claiming "Hispanic" is the irony of all ironies.

Your opinion is dumb.

People of German descent were less than 1% of the European immigrants to Argentina before 1940. Most of the German immigrants arrived before the Nazis came to power, and many of those who arrived 1933-40 were Jews fleeing the Nazis.

The vast majority of Argentines are descended from Italians and Spanish. The latter can unironically claim "Hispanic".

ALL Argentines are Hispanic per the US government definition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

IMO, a descendant of a German (esp. Nazi) living in Argentina, claiming "Hispanic" is the irony of all ironies.

Your opinion is dumb.

People of German descent were less than 1% of the European immigrants to Argentina before 1940. Most of the German immigrants arrived before the Nazis came to power, and many of those who arrived 1933-40 were Jews fleeing the Nazis.

The vast majority of Argentines are descended from Italians and Spanish. The latter can unironically claim "Hispanic".

ALL Argentines are Hispanic per the US government definition.

European Spaniards are white and offended to be referred to as Hispanic.

[Anonymous]

For those alumni who experienced these crazy cut-throat competitive things by your peers, can you say it was mostly among.... biology majors? pre-med kids? what about the other sciences? I have a kid interested in physics, but I hate what I'm hearing here.

Is it worse, I guess I'm asking, in certain departments?

Can anyone with RECENT experience of the place (and 1992 doesn't count! ) speak to whether it's still a very unhappy place? One PP said her child is having fun, going to sports events, etc. That was good to hear, but curious about others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those alumni who experienced these crazy cut-throat competitive things by your peers, can you say it was mostly among.... biology majors? pre-med kids? what about the other sciences? I have a kid interested in physics, but I hate what I'm hearing here.

Is it worse, I guess I'm asking, in certain departments?

Can anyone with RECENT experience of the place (and 1992 doesn't count! ) speak to whether it's still a very unhappy place? One PP said her child is having fun, going to sports events, etc. That was good to hear, but curious about others.

I am an alumni and did not find it crazy competitive and neither did my friends. Back in the 1990s, there was still a lot of grade deflation overall and C curves were common in certain premed prerequisites and classes like macro and micro economics — there likely has been grade inflation as there has been elsewhere. Physics is a relatively small department and I suspect it’s pretty collaborative.

As for social life, my experience is it depended on personality. People who lived to study continued to do so but there was plenty of social kids who continued to have a good social life in college. Greek life was and remains popular, and people underestimate the number of student athletes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For those alumni who experienced these crazy cut-throat competitive things by your peers, can you say it was mostly among.... biology majors? pre-med kids? what about the other sciences? I have a kid interested in physics, but I hate what I'm hearing here.

Is it worse, I guess I'm asking, in certain departments?

Can anyone with RECENT experience of the place (and 1992 doesn't count! ) speak to whether it's still a very unhappy place? One PP said her child is having fun, going to sports events, etc. That was good to hear, but curious about others.

I am an alumni and did not find it crazy competitive and neither did my friends. Back in the 1990s, there was still a lot of grade deflation overall and C curves were common in certain premed prerequisites and classes like macro and micro economics — there likely has been grade inflation as there has been elsewhere. Physics is a relatively small department and I suspect it’s pretty collaborative.

As for social life, my experience is it depended on personality. People who lived to study continued to do so but there was plenty of social kids who continued to have a good social life in college. Greek life was and remains popular, and people underestimate the number of student athletes.

Ok we all stopped reading when you said Back in the 1990s… Post AOL experiences only please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

IMO, a descendant of a German (esp. Nazi) living in Argentina, claiming "Hispanic" is the irony of all ironies.

Your opinion is dumb.

People of German descent were less than 1% of the European immigrants to Argentina before 1940. Most of the German immigrants arrived before the Nazis came to power, and many of those who arrived 1933-40 were Jews fleeing the Nazis.

The vast majority of Argentines are descended from Italians and Spanish. The latter can unironically claim "Hispanic".

ALL Argentines are Hispanic per the US government definition.

European Spaniards are white and offended to be referred to as Hispanic.

Simply not true

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder what percentage of the URM kids also are white. There's a lot of UMC kids who have a black and white parent or white looking Grandma from Argentina and look very white, but check the Hispanic box.

Argentina is not 'latin or hispanic'.

Argentinans lean into the Hispanic crap when it comes to stuff like college admissions but are like the third reich the rest of the time

Argentinians are legit Hispanic by every definition I've seen.

For example, census dot gov:

"OMB defines "Hispanic or Latino" as a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."

Argentines would be dumb not to play that readily available card.

But, as DCUM thinks some Hispanics are "cheating", what we really need is for DCUM to put on its expert Nazi racial scientist hat and precisely define which types of Hispanics "deserve" any social or college admissions advantages. How brown do you have to be to avoid the dreaded "white Hispanic" label? Should admissions committees use a special chart?

IMO, a descendant of a German (esp. Nazi) living in Argentina, claiming "Hispanic" is the irony of all ironies.

For irony it’s tough to beat Left-wing Jewish students who until a month ago were hassling conservatives, cops, & ROTC on many campuses, & now demand those same people protect them & Israel.

[Anonymous]

Hopkins gets the perfect storm of lax bros, underachieving prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

It’s Tulane without New Orleans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopkins gets the perfect storm of lax bros, underachieving prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

It’s Tulane without New Orleans.

Yet somehow is always ranked in the top 10 every year (6-9). Those prep school kids can’t be too underachieving

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopkins gets the perfect storm of lax bros, underachieving prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

It’s Tulane without New Orleans.

Yet somehow is always ranked in the top 10 every year (6-9). Those prep school kids can’t be too underachieving

yep, you misplaced your adjective:

Hopkins gets the perfect storm of underachieving lax bros, prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

The prep school kids who get in these days are super high achieving, HYP quality. I know several from last year and they were top 5% at super strenuous schools.


The rest is completely accurate and what makes Hopkins such a weird mix.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopkins gets the perfect storm of lax bros, underachieving prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

It’s Tulane without New Orleans.

Yet somehow is always ranked in the top 10 every year (6-9). Those prep school kids can’t be too underachieving

yep, you misplaced your adjective:

Hopkins gets the perfect storm of underachieving lax bros, prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

The prep school kids who get in these days are super high achieving, HYP quality. I know several from last year and they were top 5% at super strenuous schools.


The rest is completely accurate and what makes Hopkins such a weird mix.

Hopkins alum here, there actually are not a lot of “Baltimore folk” attending, and I would not have fit into any of these categories. Op with the kid interested in physics, visit, you won’t get accurate info on dcum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

IMO, a descendant of a German (esp. Nazi) living in Argentina, claiming "Hispanic" is the irony of all ironies.

Your opinion is dumb.

People of German descent were less than 1% of the European immigrants to Argentina before 1940. Most of the German immigrants arrived before the Nazis came to power, and many of those who arrived 1933-40 were Jews fleeing the Nazis.

The vast majority of Argentines are descended from Italians and Spanish. The latter can unironically claim "Hispanic".

ALL Argentines are Hispanic per the US government definition.

European Spaniards are white and offended to be referred to as Hispanic.

This is completely untrue. Honestly the ridiculous things I read on this board about Hispanics are so absurd.

[Anonymous]

Is Hopkins admissions a legacy thing? Without getting a Nobel peace prize , how to high stat kids get in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Hopkins admissions a legacy thing? Without getting a Nobel peace prize , how to high stat kids get in?

There is no legacy preference at Hopkins anymore. It went away years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopkins gets the perfect storm of lax bros, underachieving prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

It’s Tulane without New Orleans.

Yet somehow is always ranked in the top 10 every year (6-9). Those prep school kids can’t be too underachieving

yep, you misplaced your adjective:

Hopkins gets the perfect storm of underachieving lax bros, prep school whites, the med school obsessive Asian doctor pipeline, and B’More folk.

The prep school kids who get in these days are super high achieving, HYP quality. I know several from last year and they were top 5% at super strenuous schools.


The rest is completely accurate and what makes Hopkins such a weird mix.

Hopkins alum here, there actually are not a lot of “Baltimore folk” attending, and I would not have fit into any of these categories. Op with the kid interested in physics, visit, you won’t get accurate info on dcum.

My kid just visited and all but two of the students he talked to were international students. Everyone seemed friendly. The food was good. The (American) students playing the club sport he likes were also nice.