Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous
Hopkins undergrad is in North Baltimore, surrounded by one middle class and two wealthy neighborhoods. For a irban school, it is quite safe. Always amuses me that posters here talk about how dangerous it is — UVA has had a number of murders over the past decade, Hopkins has not. Hopkins is a far more athletics driven school than Chicago. In addition to having perennial T20 D1 lacrosse teams, the d3 football, baseball, field hockey, track and field and swimming teams consistently do well and often advance to the NCAA playoffs. I also think Chicago is more intellectual, Hopkins more pre professional. About a third of the students are active in Greek life. Having gone to Hopkins and now living back in Baltimore, there is no school that DCUM posters consistently get wrong. Yes, there are geeky kids, as there are at every college, particularly at a T10. There is also a sizable portion of social kids who go out every weekend (when I was a student, weekends started on Wednesday). |
Anonymous
You poor things. |
Anonymous
$$$$ |
Anonymous
Huh? I went to Hopkins in the 2000s and there were plenty of parties. It's not an SEC school but it's not a monastery. It's not entirely a pre-med grind. Also, Baltimore is as safe as DC or any city if you're not interacting with the drug culture (i.e. selling or buying). Do a deep dive of the violent crime stats--violent crime is 99.9% contained within the drug community or associates. I lived there from 18 to 30 in some super unsafe neighborhoods (i.e. several grad school years in an apartment that cost $150/month because the area was that rough). No one ever bothered me and the neighbors looked out for my roommate and I. Many good, hardworking people live in even the roughest neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
It's supposedly a great med school, but I never heard that it was top 10 otherwise. |
Anonymous
Poor JHU if they aren't getting any donations. The alums already got their degrees, they don't need JHU, JHU needs them. (Or not... they're certainly acting like they don't.) |
Anonymous
You only have to drive a block or so from campus to see drug addicts staggering around. If you're ok with your kids being around that, fine, you do you. |
Anonymous
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Because it is too hard and not for pansies. JHU is notorious for grade deflation, which is in contrast to schools like Harvard which has big grade deflation.
Look, most of these kids want to do garbage like consulting, banking, or some other finance. You need to get the best grades on paper for a degree that really doesn't matter. Those fields only care about the name on the paper and your gpa, so take the path of least resistance and go to the easiest schools possible. JHU is HARD. |
Anonymous
This exact story happened to my boss's kid also. She felt her younger son's Purdue education was cheaper, safer, and more relaxing. Both kids have good jobs now and live in the Midwest (both were OOS for their colleges). |
Anonymous
| Too expensive and too close. Also hard to get admitted. |
Anonymous
This is the case at CMU. Rural campuses, by definition, have no one around other than students, so no security needed. It's like not locking your door. |
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https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/
It appears plenty of kids in MC (Albert Einstein in Kensington; Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; and Winston Churchill in Potomac) apply to JHU. With the exception of U Penn and Cornell, more kids applied to JHU than other Ivies, Duke, Northwestern, U Chicago, or Stanford. 422 applied; 34 accepted; 20 enrolled |
Anonymous
They got those Bloomberg bucks. |
Anonymous
Another alum here. With Bloomberg’s money, they don’t need you. |
Anonymous
Than you are not well informed, Hopkins is recognized for having top programs in biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, neuroscience, biology, engineering generally, economics, international affairs, public health, and creative writing. |