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Anonymous wrote:Google John’s Hopkins safe and start reading

North campus is relatively safe. It's not actually in the bad part of Baltimore like the med campus. But you absolutely can never assume you are safe and stay away from young kids (10+) in the fall doing gang initiations. I'd give the same advice to anyone on a city campus - NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, etc.

So the Baltimore gangs keep to a fall schedule for Rush?

Just the 10+ year olds. The 7-9 year olds rush in the Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:What are the ED1 acceptance rate for JHU?

In case this is useful, here is a list of ED rates. It is a year old, but may be useful if you are considering ED to see where sacrificing some options by submitting ED might have more of a net positive effect in admissions odds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1ggxd55/schools_with_the_biggest_and_smallest_relative_ed/

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to eat on campus, Home Slyce is a great pizza spot near the dorms. My kids use the Jay Shuttle quite a bit to explore Baltimore. Orioles games, Fells Point, Hampden, a Saturday morning farmers market they love. Take a walk along San Martin Dr as well (it's the road that goes behind campus by the football field. Very beautiful along there and you forget you're even in the city.

Hopkins neighbor here. Glad to hear the students are getting out and enjoying the city! The Saturday farmer's market is so close to campus and is great!

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JHU parent here and just attended parent’s weekend for a sophomore. My student, and my impression of the students generally, is that they are happy, smart, impressive, and hard working. This is not a party school so if that’s what you want then send your kid somewhere else. But my kid is involved in sports and is Greek. There is not grade inflation and the kids care about their studies. The campus and neighborhood are wonderful and constantly improving. Baltimore is underrated, lots of good neighborhoods. We live in a close by city that is larger so we aren’t as concerned as some of you may be about safety, we felt perfectly safe all weekend. It is a very challenging admit whether you apply ED or RD. Highly recommend!

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Anonymous wrote:Planning on a campus visit in October. JHU is seldomly brought up on DCUM even though it’s right here in Maryland. 13 billion endowment. Plus Bloomberg money. A long tradition of research and medicine. A beautiful campus. DC is considering ED1 or ED2.

None of the local private colleges are discussed much because if you are going to pay $90k for private college, then 98% of kids want to get out of the DC area.

Well know JHU and Georgetown are top schools, but there is also little reason for us to ask DCUM about them.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to eat on campus, Home Slyce is a great pizza spot near the dorms. My kids use the Jay Shuttle quite a bit to explore Baltimore. Orioles games, Fells Point, Hampden, a Saturday morning farmers market they love. Take a walk along San Martin Dr as well (it's the road that goes behind campus by the football field. Very beautiful along there and you forget you're even in the city.

Hopkins neighbor here. Glad to hear the students are getting out and enjoying the city! The Saturday farmer's market is so close to campus and is great!

I must admit that at first I wasn't super excited for my kid to live in Baltimore, but it has turned out to be a great experience and it is a fun city. Every time we visit, it seems like she is taking us to a new place. Last week we got to play pickleball in Druid Park.

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JHU has a huge number of graduate students. Over 17000 graduate students.

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Anonymous wrote:JHU has a huge number of graduate students. Over 17000 graduate students.

Actually this is part of the problem (excluding the online ones). It’s Baltimore. Resident grad students hang out and study on campus. They crowed the small campus spaces and permeate the culture of the school in a way that graduate students at Harvard, say, do not.

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Anonymous wrote:JHU has a huge number of graduate students. Over 17000 graduate students.

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Not a popular school among private school seniors applying.

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Anonymous wrote:Google John’s Hopkins safe and start reading

North campus is relatively safe. It's not actually in the bad part of Baltimore like the med campus. But you absolutely can never assume you are safe and stay away from young kids (10+) in the fall doing gang initiations. I'd give the same advice to anyone on a city campus - NYC, Chicago, Boston, DC, etc.

I'm the person above who lives near Hopkins and this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard..

Yea Baltimore is much worse than these other cities.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a popular school among private school seniors applying.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:JHU has a huge number of graduate students. Over 17000 graduate students.

This is ridiculous. JHU has many grad students as well as many campuses in different locations and separate professional degree programs that don’t interact with the liberal arts or engineering departments at the Homewood campus. The undergrads are only at the Homewood campus. There are not 17,000+ grad students at the Homewood campus so your undergrad students will never see most of these.

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Anonymous wrote:JHU has a huge number of graduate students. Over 17000 graduate students.

This is ridiculous. JHU has many grad students as well as many campuses in different locations and separate professional degree programs that don’t interact with the liberal arts or engineering departments at the Homewood campus. The undergrads are only at the Homewood campus. There are not 17,000+ grad students at the Homewood campus so your undergrad students will never see most of these.

They will see about 40% of them, constantly hanging around — a number equal or greater than the number of undergrads. It’s a small campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a popular school among private school seniors applying.

Why?

The school is stem oriented. Private school kids like humanities and finance. JHu doesn’t have to pipeline to the street, unlike bucknell.