Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you know it’s unpopular?

This^. Statistics doesn't say so, at least not among people who can actually get in.

[Anonymous]

Too close. Reputation for a "where fun goes to die" school. And reputation for being near a dangerous area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's an EXCELLENT university.

However, it has the reputation of being cutthroat, mostly for fundamental science, and the campus is located in a less-safe area of Baltimore.

I am interested in this option for my second daughter, who might go into STEM, but since I don't know Baltimore, I'm not sure about the safety situation.

I have a DD currently there and one heading next year. Both STEM majors. Oldest DD absolutely loves it! She hasn't found it to be cutthroat at all, is at parties every Friday and Saturday (none during the week unless something like St. Patrick's Day) and the area around campus is perfectly fine. Baltimore is a large city and there are certainly neighborhoods that your student shouldn't venture to, but the area around JHU is fine. DD also takes public transportation to the inner harbor, fells point, Towson to name a few. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd be happy to help.

[Anonymous]

Baltimore

[Anonymous]

How’s their football team?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Top 10 school. Close to DC and far enough away at the same time. Who so little interest?

None of the fun college stuff. people who live near the school (neighbors) have said it's kind of sad. No party, etc even on Halloween, etc.. A reputation for smart kids but socially awkward maybe? Plus (superficial) kids/college applicants have said in forums that JHU students lack physical attractiveness across the board. Sad to hear and all likely untrue.

As someone who attended Hopkins, none of this is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How’s their football team?

D3 but good, nine trips to NCAA playoffs this decade, including making it to semi finals this year. https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/09/12/hopkins-football-season-preview-chimera/

[Anonymous]

Go to any Hopkins "party" and you will find a few kids huddled in a corner studying. Spilling beer on bio-chemistry workbooks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How’s their football team?

LAX is fire…and the homecoming game

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Anonymous wrote:They hate white people now.

This.

+100 turned us off as alums

[Anonymous]

My son goes to Loyola up the street but lives off campus right near JHU. Aside from some nonviolent crime like stealing unlocked cars, etc, the area isn’t dangerous. I live in suburban Baltimore County and we have the same crime here. If you leave your car unlocked, you’re asking for trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's an EXCELLENT university.

However, it has the reputation of being cutthroat, mostly for fundamental science, and the campus is located in a less-safe area of Baltimore.

I am interested in this option for my second daughter, who might go into STEM, but since I don't know Baltimore, I'm not sure about the safety situation.

I have a DD currently there and one heading next year. Both STEM majors. Oldest DD absolutely loves it! She hasn't found it to be cutthroat at all, is at parties every Friday and Saturday (none during the week unless something like St. Patrick's Day) and the area around campus is perfectly fine. Baltimore is a large city and there are certainly neighborhoods that your student shouldn't venture to, but the area around JHU is fine. DD also takes public transportation to the inner harbor, fells point, Towson to name a few. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd be happy to help.

She may be lying to you to make you think she has a social life(embarrassment) because JHU is known to lack any parties. Socializing typically ends at 7:00 pm even on weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's an EXCELLENT university.

However, it has the reputation of being cutthroat, mostly for fundamental science, and the campus is located in a less-safe area of Baltimore.

I am interested in this option for my second daughter, who might go into STEM, but since I don't know Baltimore, I'm not sure about the safety situation.

I have a DD currently there and one heading next year. Both STEM majors. Oldest DD absolutely loves it! She hasn't found it to be cutthroat at all, is at parties every Friday and Saturday (none during the week unless something like St. Patrick's Day) and the area around campus is perfectly fine. Baltimore is a large city and there are certainly neighborhoods that your student shouldn't venture to, but the area around JHU is fine. DD also takes public transportation to the inner harbor, fells point, Towson to name a few. Let me know if you have any questions and I'd be happy to help.

She may be lying to you to make you think she has a social life(embarrassment) because JHU is known to lack any parties. Socializing typically ends at 7:00 pm even on weekends.

Sounds like someone suffering from sour grapes, so sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People from DC hate Baltimore.

This. I suggested it to my DS and he said, “No way am I living in Baltimore!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too close to home and the culture may seem too intense...

Can someone compare it to UChicago? I feel as though people avoid JHU because it's "intense" and because the neighborhood is unsafe, and yet there is so much Chicago love in DC, and I think people would say the same things about Chicago.

Are they intense in different ways? Are the neighborhoods substantially different?