Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?

[Anonymous]

It is overrated; not a top 10 school, certainly not a top 10 undergraduate.

[Anonymous]

What data indicates that Johns Hopkins is unpopular in the DMV? Kind of a false premise, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was a little shocked that the freshman housing had a fenced off courtyard with a guard, and then you could use a key to get into your hallway. That seemed pretty high security to me. Also a lot of keys needed to enter library and general hallways. It’s more
Locked up than a rural campus.

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.

100%.
It's the same at Penn, Chicago, Columbia etc.
If you want an urban campus, you deal with heightened security.
None of this is unique to JHU.

[Anonymous]

Crime plus it’s where fun goes to die.

[Anonymous]

Here's the Bethesda Magazine list of where MCPS students applied/got in/enrolled in 2023. 422 applied to Hopkins, which is a lot more than applied to Georgetown, GW or American (just to compare with other local privates, but also more than applied to Elon and other schools that seem popular on this board).

[Anonymous]

Oops, forgot the link: https://moco360.media/2023/09/13/where-montgomery-county-high-school-graduates-are-going-to-college/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Wow, if your kid intends to make important life decisions based upon superficial qualities, their future does not look too promising regardless of where they go to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It is 2024, and you refer to people as pansies??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, cutthroat, nerdy environment are often used by people who can't get in or afford to pay.

That being said, DC is as safe as Baltimore.

My Humanities kid is at George Washington. He feels safe at GW, which has campus police everywhere. It's all clean and kept up, even though it's open concept and embedded in the city. Georgetown is enclosed and felt safe too when we visited.

Can anyone compare safety on those campuses compared to the Johns Hopkins campus?

The cities are set up differently. In DC you can steer clear of the highest crime neighborhoods. In Baltimore you have to drive through them to go to parties or the fun neighborhoods. Plus, it has a huge drug problem. Which leads to crime and violence.

I have lived in both cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, cutthroat, nerdy environment are often used by people who can't get in or afford to pay.

That being said, DC is as safe as Baltimore.

My Humanities kid is at George Washington. He feels safe at GW, which has campus police everywhere. It's all clean and kept up, even though it's open concept and embedded in the city. Georgetown is enclosed and felt safe too when we visited.

Can anyone compare safety on those campuses compared to the Johns Hopkins campus?

I've spent significant time in Foggy Bottom and significant time in areas near JHU. there is no comparison for the feeling of relative unsafety near JHU.

[Anonymous]

The areas north (Roland Park) and west (Hampden) of the Homewood campus are OK. The areas east and south can be scary. More petty crime than violent crime.
I think that student life at JHU can be contained within the Homewood campus. Public transportation in the city is abysmal.

Having said that, I’d support my kids if either of them were seriously considering JHU for Peabody or a hard science field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsafe, cutthroat, nerdy environment are often used by people who can't get in or afford to pay.

That being said, DC is as safe as Baltimore.

My Humanities kid is at George Washington. He feels safe at GW, which has campus police everywhere. It's all clean and kept up, even though it's open concept and embedded in the city. Georgetown is enclosed and felt safe too when we visited.

Can anyone compare safety on those campuses compared to the Johns Hopkins campus?

The cities are set up differently. In DC you can steer clear of the highest crime neighborhoods. In Baltimore you have to drive through them to go to parties or the fun neighborhoods. Plus, it has a huge drug problem. Which leads to crime and violence.

I have lived in both cities.

But apparently aren’t familiar with the Hopkins campus. Pp, Hopkins undergrad is in a much less urban part of the city than GW, it is surrounded by residential neighborhoods on all sides. Access to the parts of downtown popular with students, ie. Harbor East, Fed Hill, Fells Point and Hampden, does not involved driving through high crime neighborhoods.

Unlike GW, the Hopkins campus is set off from the surrounding neighborhoods and has a lot of green space. The undergrad campus encompasses 140 acres. There is a small area of restaurants geared to students in Charles Village, about 3 blocks worth. Baltimore museum of Art is an immediate neighbor. Hopkins campus is not gated, there is security to enter the dorms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because it's in Baltimore. Lol.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Do the math if you are a straight white Catholic male

Freshman class is only 1,250 it is only 18 percent white or 225 White people in class. Of that 225 it is 60 percent male as a stem school so 90 girls. Of that 90 girls most will be stem type nerds or non Christian etc. now we are talking 10-30 datable girls.

Meanwhile my lesser rated Catholic college was like 52 percent women the majority white and Catholic. I like to date in college, have girlfriends, go to keg parties. Plus my school bigger 20,000 kids. I literally had like 5,000 pretty girls to date my grade alone.

Plus I could go off campus on a safe neighborhood to meet girls.

And don’t laugh kids do go to school to date and meet people. If I was black I go to Howard not John Hopkins.

The school is a prision for a fun outgoing kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The areas north (Roland Park) and west (Hampden) of the Homewood campus are OK. The areas east and south can be scary. More petty crime than violent crime.
I think that student life at JHU can be contained within the Homewood campus. Public transportation in the city is abysmal.

Having said that, I’d support my kids if either of them were seriously considering JHU for Peabody or a hard science field.

The area west of Hopkins is Roland Park, as noted, very safe. North are Guilford and Homewood, two of the pricier residential areas of the city. Loyola is a few blocks away in that direction, very safe. South and east of Hopkins is Charles village, more middle class than the others but far from high crime. If one goes about a mile east, the neighborhood is not good. Never had reason to go in that direction for the four years I spent at Hopkins or the decade plus I’ve lived in Baltimore as an adult.