Why is Johns Hopkins not mentioned much here?
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Anonymous
It's close and highly ranked... 
Is it the neighborhood? Miserable student body?? |
Anonymous
| Good question. |
Anonymous
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It's my alma mater and I think I got a fantastic education in a small setting which was so much better for me than a large campus. It was interesting. A few years ago when my nephew was looking at schools, JHU was one of the schools he considered, so he and his mom can out and stayed with us and I took a day off work to take them up to Baltimore for the school tour. It was amazing to me how much had changed on campus in the 20 or so years since I had been a student and I enjoyed the tour as much as he did. He ended up going elsewhere, but I'm glad he considered Hopkins.
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Anonymous
It's like going to a third world country. |
Anonymous
With the tuition? Really? |
Anonymous
| The neighborhood is pretty bad. But I don't think he gets a lot of play here because it's so close. I think most kids want to go little further away from home for school. |
Anonymous
| The neighborhood is really bad, and Baltimore doesn't have much to offer and college student. |
Anonymous
| The neighborhood really isn't that bad. I lived a couple blocks from campus for several years. There are some areas to the east that get shady the further you get from campus. |
Anonymous
| The neighborhood around the medical school is bad. The neighborhood around the undergraduate campus (Charles Village) is not bad at all. |
Anonymous
| The area around campus is reasonably safe if you are going out in groups. There weren't too many girls who were stupid enough to walk by themselves at night though. There is a campus shuttle that will drop you off at home at night. The shuttle would do pick ups at some of the frat houses as well. |
Anonymous
| We recently toured the campus and we saw two homeless-looking people (gear in-tow) walking through the campus. The neighborhood immediately around the campus is really run down. I can't attest to actual safety, but I want my dd somewhere that she feels safe. |
Anonymous
| I wonder the same thing. It was not even on the radar of DD and many of her friends who had the stats. The only marketing I remember from them was the CTY program, which DD was not interested in. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| Left out MIT^^^ sorry. |