Nobody talks about Johns Hopkins here

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Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think it’s a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

Major? ED1? Male or female?

ED1, Female, W school, 4.00 UW, 1570, Public Health, Bio, & IR. And no, she isn't Asian nor 100% white.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think its a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

It's not overlooked when it gets 50k applications a year. This is one forum that is not representative of the country. Georgetown also doesn't get talked about much and UMD to a lesser extent. I think it's the local effect. The closer you are to something, the less you visit it like a theme park.

It's a fabulous school depending on major. And it has major grade inflation now (College GPA is a 3.8+). However, it is not the right school if you don't prefer an urban environment with a stem lean (ala Stanford, Penn, MIT) vs a more humanities focused school (Dartmouth, Brown, Vandy).

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Great school and very hard admit from the DMV area. Very high academic rigor. My first kid considered and decided it would be academically too challenging for him as he wanted to have study-life balance at college. My second kid is considering ED to Hopkins next year. The second kid has an academic passion in an area where Hopkins is one of the top schools in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. This thread has really deteriorated. The pro-Hopkins trolls have emerged from the mean streets of Baltimore.

I agree that it has deteriorated, but most people supporting Hopkins are arguing against this 1 troll who is making general blanket statements about Hopkins grads and baselessly attacking it as an elite institution.

Saying it is top 15 and not top 10 is not "baselessly attacking it as an elite institution." There are hundreds of other schools that would kill to be top 15. And this is not "baseless" - you might disagree, but one can make a reasonable argument that it is true." It is not like saying it is not in the top 10 in the state of Maryland or something ridiculous like that. Lighten up, Francis.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think it’s a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

Major? ED1? Male or female?

ED1, Female, W school, 4.00 UW, 1570, Public Health, Bio, & IR. And no, she isn't Asian nor 100% white.

Sounds like a good fit. IR is a top department there as is Bio ofcourse. Public health is #1 in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. This thread has really deteriorated. The pro-Hopkins trolls have emerged from the mean streets of Baltimore.

I agree that it has deteriorated, but most people supporting Hopkins are arguing against this 1 troll who is making general blanket statements about Hopkins grads and baselessly attacking it as an elite institution.

Saying it is top 15 and not top 10 is not "baselessly attacking it as an elite institution." There are hundreds of other schools that would kill to be top 15. And this is not "baseless" - you might disagree, but one can make a reasonable argument that it is true." It is not like saying it is not in the top 10 in the state of Maryland or something ridiculous like that. Lighten up, Francis.

Cool. Keep your two cents Karen.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. This thread has really deteriorated. The pro-Hopkins trolls have emerged from the mean streets of Baltimore.

I agree that it has deteriorated, but most people supporting Hopkins are arguing against this 1 troll who is making general blanket statements about Hopkins grads and baselessly attacking it as an elite institution.

Saying it is top 15 and not top 10 is not "baselessly attacking it as an elite institution." There are hundreds of other schools that would kill to be top 15. And this is not "baseless" - you might disagree, but one can make a reasonable argument that it is true." It is not like saying it is not in the top 10 in the state of Maryland or something ridiculous like that. Lighten up, Francis.

1-6: HYPSM
7: Columbia
8: Penn
9: UChicago, Duke
10: Northwestern

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Anonymous wrote:Has the most applications amongst montgomery county and bethesda area schools and yield which is not surprising. Most posters wouldn't have a shot as it is demands high stats:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/

Especially the idiots claiming it isn't top 10 worthy when it has top ranked programs in stem and humanities above most ivies and privates like duke.

Unless you’re soccer jock. They have institutional priorities just like the rest of the crowd, don’t kid yourself

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think it’s a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

Major? ED1? Male or female?

ED1, Female, W school, 4.00 UW, 1570, Public Health, Bio, & IR. And no, she isn't Asian nor 100% white.

3 things is 1-2 too many. IR will be the easiest admit. Apply for that - if you have the narrative. Public health and Bio are stereotypically female….ED should be good.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Hopkins and took my kid there (TJ student) and he was luke warm to it.

They explicitly said in the admissions presentation that children of divorced or broken families were not welcome which was very shocking to me.

The campus feels more secure than when I went there. I was a TA and student advisor for one of their more "cut throat" programs and it didn't feel cut throat to me (compared to my HYPSM experience). The research opportunities are top notch, music, business and medicine are too.

Lol. My older son went there and he is the very definition of this. We even got tons of FA too!

It's not a school for everyone. My DS is type A and loved it there. It seemed like where fun went to die to me.

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How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

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Anonymous wrote:How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

comparable to stanford and berkeley out west

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think it’s a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

Major? ED1? Male or female?

ED1, Female, W school, 4.00 UW, 1570, Public Health, Bio, & IR. And no, she isn't Asian nor 100% white.

3 things is 1-2 too many. IR will be the easiest admit. Apply for that - if you have the narrative. Public health and Bio are stereotypically female….ED should be good.

She is planning to just put Public Health as her primary major and IR as a secondary academic interest. Duke ED is also a strong contender for her. They're definitely different in terms of social scene, but they offer the best Public Health curricula.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm OP, can we recenter this thread onto why Hopkins might be overlooked? My kid wants to ED, I think it’s a great school for them, & I want informed opinions.

Major? ED1? Male or female?

ED1, Female, W school, 4.00 UW, 1570, Public Health, Bio, & IR. And no, she isn't Asian nor 100% white.

3 things is 1-2 too many. IR will be the easiest admit. Apply for that - if you have the narrative. Public health and Bio are stereotypically female….ED should be good.

She is planning to just put Public Health as her primary major and IR as a secondary academic interest. Duke ED is also a strong contender for her. They're definitely different in terms of social scene, but they offer the best Public Health curricula.

Just go IR for Hopkins if you want the best chances. Still competitive as it is a top 5 major but easy to switch after getting in. Public health and bio is more competitive (I think they are top 3 majors).

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Anonymous wrote:How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

Poor Virginia with UVA, Virginia Tech in the acc and James Madison