Why Does Johns Hopkins Get Destroyed in Cross-Admit Battles with Peer Schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Because it's not peers with those schools?

Hopkins is overranked because of federal funding for its medical research and Applied Physics Lab. While I'm sure the medical research has some carryover for undergrad students in biological sciences, it doesn't do much for anything outside of those subjects. The APL is based a 30 minutes drive off campus so it's not of much use to physics/engineering undergrad students.

The Ivies are Ivies, and therefore recognized globally. Duke is well-recognized nationally in every industry due to it's breadth of competencies and also basketball. Hopkins is well recognized nationally but primarily as a pre-med school.


How could you live in this area and be totally ignorant of SAIS?

SAIS is a graduate school and based in DC, again not very relevant to undergrads.


Exactly. Hopkins' best to offer in terms of academics are not very relevant to undergrads. Be it medical school or SAIS. The political science department, which is actually based in Baltimore, is separate from SAIS and the rankings are in the 40s, which is pretty low for a school of its caliber. Definitely not a top-tier department.


Again, you reveal you have no clue what you are talking about. International studies is a different major than poly sci. And here’s the rankings. https://www.collegefactual.com/majors/social-sciences/international-relations-national-security/rankings/top-ranked/


Dear, I absolutely know what I am talking about. Foreign Policy's rankings on IR programs - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/20/top-fifty-schools-international-relations-foreign-policy/

Top 5 undergrad IR programs

Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
Georgetown
Columbia

and JHU at #15.

Top 5 grad IR programs (Master's degree)

Georgetown
Harvard
JHU
Princeton
Columbia

Top 5 grad IR programs

Havard
Princeton
Stanford
Columbia
Chicago

JHU again at #16

Grad and undergrad, two very different things. Still, my point stands. What is offered at the Homewood campus is very different from its other campuses. There is a big disconnect between grad and undergrad programs at JHU, and it's not uncommon to JHU. Many grad-heavy institutions have a similar problem. Simple as that.


The ranking I cited was obviously different but even using the worst one you could find, undergrad IR at Hopkins is T15. Sorry it is so difficult for you to ever acknowledge you are wrong.


T15 out of 50 schools does not make it a leading program. On the other hand, SAIS masters are indisputably leading programs. I don't disagree with you on that. I am simply saying there is a huge gap between grad and undergrad prestige and JHU's prestige is largely built off its grad, NOT undergrad programs. JHU has invested little in its undergrad programs until recently. And this is reflected in the poor cross-admit preferences between JHU and its peer schools and other lower ranked ivies. I really hope the Bloomberg donation could make a difference in the next 10-15 years, but I don't understand why pointing out this existing problem between perceived and actual prestige is so triggering to some of you staunch defenders.


Perhaps it is obvious to those of us that actually attended the school that you know nothing about it. Just a page or two ago, you didn’t know that international studies was a different major than political science. Now you claim to be an expert on ranking the international studies program. You want to disregard the ranking that had it first for undergrad international studies and focus on the one that found it fifteenth as if that is somehow definitive. It also simply isn’t true that there is no relationship between Hopkins undergrads and SAIS. SAIS professors occasionally teach a course at Homewood (I personally took a course on African politics taught by a SAIS professor as an undergrad), undergrads commonly study abroad at SAIS Europe in Bologna, and there is a five year BA/MA program where three years are at Homewood and two are at SAIS.

The better question is why someone who knows so little about the school is willing to devote so much time to attacking it.


Foreign Policy magazine is far more authoritative than whatever your "college factual" ranking is, which, in my opinion, is by no means "factual" at all if they place SAIS's undergrad #1 in the country in terms of international studies. Care to provide metrics fo your ranking? The FP ranking is actually based on surveys of IR experts in the field and shows how the programs are perceived by authoritative experts - by the way, I hardly know any top-notch IR experts coming out of Hopkins, having studied IR extensively myself, but you can easily name IR giants from any of the top 5 schools like Harvard (Joseph Nye, Sam Huntington), Stanford (Stephen Walt, Frank Fukuyama), Princeton (John Ikenberry), Columbia (Robert Jervis), Chicago (John Mearsheimer), and Berkeley (Kenneth Waltz).

I am not devoting time to attacking it, I'm just trying to give you a realistic view of how JHU is perceived beyond your own myopic alumni circles. Sorry if it shatters your illusions but facts are often unpleasant to the ear.


Oh please, I could care less what you think, I gave you three different rankings that have Hopkins in the T 10. As if I or anyone else would believe the anonymous poster who didn’t know the difference between a poly sci and an IR major at Hopkins is some type of IR guru.

In any case, that Hopkins IR major took me to a T5 law school and then the DC office of a major law firm where I practiced in an area of international law, so it worked out just fine for me.


Not PP but 15 pages of posters care and tons of college applicants do, which is reflected by the low cross-admit rates.


15 pages and nothing but Parchment data which is pretty universally acknowledges to be deeply flawed.


Nope, while Parchment isn’t perfect I don’t believe it is deeply flawed for all its outputs. The most people who have major issues with Parchment simply don’t like what they see


It’s old data that is self reported. In what universe is that not deeply flawed? You must not be in an analytical field.
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Anonymous wrote:https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are#id=198419

Another source of looking at peer schools - what schools consider JHU as its peers? And the answer is:

Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, Notre Dame, USC, NYU... so why don't we start from here?

Surprised to see NYU there, it's quite a few ways down. Makes sense from a medical school perspective but not undergrad.
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Anonymous wrote:https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are#id=198419

Another source of looking at peer schools - what schools consider JHU as its peers? And the answer is:

Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, Notre Dame, USC, NYU... so why don't we start from here?

Surprised to see NYU there, it's quite a few ways down. Makes sense from a medical school perspective but not undergrad.


What you really need to look at are the mutual peers. NYU may have selected JHU as a peer but JHU doesn't have to agree.

*I'm not looking at the mutual peer listings so I don't know which schools are on it.
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Anonymous wrote:https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are#id=198419

Another source of looking at peer schools - what schools consider JHU as its peers? And the answer is:

Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, Notre Dame, USC, NYU... so why don't we start from here?

Surprised to see NYU there, it's quite a few ways down. Makes sense from a medical school perspective but not undergrad.


What you really need to look at are the mutual peers. NYU may have selected JHU as a peer but JHU doesn't have to agree.

*I'm not looking at the mutual peer listings so I don't know which schools are on it.


Let's see... mutual peer listings are Brown, Northwestern, Stanford, Chicago and Cornell!
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is only the grouping of a foreigner (or someone who didn't go to college) who obsessively reads USNWR.

Here's a real ranking:

Tier 1 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Tier 1A - MIT and Caltech
Tier 2 - Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, and begrudgingly Chicago
Tier 3 - Cornell, Penn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, the good publics like Berkeley and UVA, the good Catholic schools like ND and Georgetown


I agree with this except I would move CalTech and Northwestern down a Tier each, as good “trade schools.” This is my perception based on prestige/reputation, as someone who grew up in the Northeast and is very familiar with independent schools in NY and Boston. Columbia really wasn’t harmed by the USNWR scandal, and John’s Hopkins, despite its ranking, loses on cross admits to the top schools, because it does not have the perceived prestige of elite schools.
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Anonymous wrote:is only the grouping of a foreigner (or someone who didn't go to college) who obsessively reads USNWR.

Here's a real ranking:

Tier 1 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Tier 1A - MIT and Caltech
Tier 2 - Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, and begrudgingly Chicago
Tier 3 - Cornell, Penn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, the good publics like Berkeley and UVA, the good Catholic schools like ND and Georgetown


I agree with this except I would move CalTech and Northwestern down a Tier each, as good “trade schools.” This is my perception based on prestige/reputation, as someone who grew up in the Northeast and is very familiar with independent schools in NY and Boston. Columbia really wasn’t harmed by the USNWR scandal, and John’s Hopkins, despite its ranking, loses on cross admits to the top schools, because it does not have the perceived prestige of elite schools.


+1, never quite understand the allure of Caltech and the fascination with it when the school has a just 40% yield rate. If you look at the self-reported peer school data:

Harvard selects Yale, Princeton, and Stanford as its peers and both Yale and Stanford select Harvard as peers (Princeton did not submit data).
MIT selects Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, CMU, Caltech as peers. All except Harvard select MIT as their peers.
Yale selects all other ivies+MIT+Stanford+Chicago as peers. Columbia did not submit data but every other school reciprocated.
Stanford selects all eight ivies, MIT, and JHU as peers, again except for the two Ivies that did not submit data, everyone else are mutual peers.
Penn selects all other Ivies, Stanford, and MIT as peers, all except Harvard and MIT are mutual peers.
Caltech selects seven ivies except Dartmouth, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Chicago, Gtech, Berkeley, NYU, and Rice as peers. Just Chicago, MIT, Gtech, Rice, CMU are mutual peers.
Chicago selects seven Ivies except Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, WUSTL, JHU. Those who are mutual peers: Penn, Yale, Northwestern, Caltech, WUSTL, Cornell, Brown, JHU
Northwestern selects seven Ivies minus Dartmouth, MIT, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Rice, USC, WUSTL, Vanderbilt and a bunch of other schools. Most of the ivies did not see NU as a peer except Brown and Cornell. Other top schools that see NU as a peer include JHU, Chicago, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, CMU, USC, Rice. (Duke did not submit data)
JHU selects all eight ivies, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, but only Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Chicago, and Stanford are mutual peers.
Brown selects all other ivies, Stanford, MIT, NU, JHU, WUSTL, Chicago, Rochester, Georgetown, Duke. Mutual peers are Dartmouth, Yale, Rice, Cornell, NU, Chicago, Georgetown, Penn, Stanford, JHU, WUSTL.
Cornell selects all ivies, Stanford, MIT, NU, Chicago, WUSTL, JHU, Duke, and major publics like Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, and UIUC. Mutual peers are Yale, MIT, Stanford, JHU, Michigan, Penn, WUSTL, Chicago, Brown, NU.
Dartmouth selects all other ivies, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Vanderbilt, and mutual peers are Brown, Stanford, Penn, Yale.

The ones clearly overrated are Northwestern, Caltech, and Duke (among the top schools, only JHU, Brown, Cornell see Duke as a peer). They are clearly a tier below schools like Columbia, Penn, and Chicago in terms of peer recognition. In fact, they are even worse in terms of peer recognition than some of the lower ivies.
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Anonymous wrote:is only the grouping of a foreigner (or someone who didn't go to college) who obsessively reads USNWR.

Here's a real ranking:

Tier 1 - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Tier 1A - MIT and Caltech
Tier 2 - Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Northwestern, and begrudgingly Chicago
Tier 3 - Cornell, Penn, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Rice, the good publics like Berkeley and UVA, the good Catholic schools like ND and Georgetown


I agree with this except I would move CalTech and Northwestern down a Tier each, as good “trade schools.” This is my perception based on prestige/reputation, as someone who grew up in the Northeast and is very familiar with independent schools in NY and Boston. Columbia really wasn’t harmed by the USNWR scandal, and John’s Hopkins, despite its ranking, loses on cross admits to the top schools, because it does not have the perceived prestige of elite schools.


+1, never quite understand the allure of Caltech and the fascination with it when the school has a just 40% yield rate. If you look at the self-reported peer school data:

Harvard selects Yale, Princeton, and Stanford as its peers and both Yale and Stanford select Harvard as peers (Princeton did not submit data).
MIT selects Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, CMU, Caltech as peers. All except Harvard select MIT as their peers.
Yale selects all other ivies+MIT+Stanford+Chicago as peers. Columbia did not submit data but every other school reciprocated.
Stanford selects all eight ivies, MIT, and JHU as peers, again except for the two Ivies that did not submit data, everyone else are mutual peers.
Penn selects all other Ivies, Stanford, and MIT as peers, all except Harvard and MIT are mutual peers.
Caltech selects seven ivies except Dartmouth, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Chicago, Gtech, Berkeley, NYU, and Rice as peers. Just Chicago, MIT, Gtech, Rice, CMU are mutual peers.
Chicago selects seven Ivies except Dartmouth, Northwestern, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, WUSTL, JHU. Those who are mutual peers: Penn, Yale, Northwestern, Caltech, WUSTL, Cornell, Brown, JHU
Northwestern selects seven Ivies minus Dartmouth, MIT, Caltech, Chicago, Duke, Rice, USC, WUSTL, Vanderbilt and a bunch of other schools. Most of the ivies did not see NU as a peer except Brown and Cornell. Other top schools that see NU as a peer include JHU, Chicago, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, CMU, USC, Rice. (Duke did not submit data)
JHU selects all eight ivies, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, but only Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Chicago, and Stanford are mutual peers.
Brown selects all other ivies, Stanford, MIT, NU, JHU, WUSTL, Chicago, Rochester, Georgetown, Duke. Mutual peers are Dartmouth, Yale, Rice, Cornell, NU, Chicago, Georgetown, Penn, Stanford, JHU, WUSTL.
Cornell selects all ivies, Stanford, MIT, NU, Chicago, WUSTL, JHU, Duke, and major publics like Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, and UIUC. Mutual peers are Yale, MIT, Stanford, JHU, Michigan, Penn, WUSTL, Chicago, Brown, NU.
Dartmouth selects all other ivies, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Vanderbilt, and mutual peers are Brown, Stanford, Penn, Yale.

The ones clearly overrated are Northwestern, Caltech, and Duke (among the top schools, only JHU, Brown, Cornell see Duke as a peer). They are clearly a tier below schools like Columbia, Penn, and Chicago in terms of peer recognition. In fact, they are even worse in terms of peer recognition than some of the lower ivies.


This stuff is literally filled out by random administrators at each school. Their opinions have nothing to do with reality.
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