Why does JHU have so low name recognition / lay prestige?

[Anonymous]

Hopkins is the most prestigious school in the USA for anything research-related in the medical fields. Everyone I've talked to regards Hopkins as a great prestigious school. The students aren't cutthroat, just very driven and the classes are hard. It's definitely not for everyone but is a great opportunity for a student who is willing to work hard. The saying is that "if you can make it at Hopkins, you can make it anywhere" and I believe that's very true.
-A Hopkins current undergrad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's in a crappy area. I think it's a great school, but JHU and Baltimore need to work on cleaning that mess up.

The hospital and medical school are in a crappy area. The undergrad campus is in Charles Village, With abuts Guilford and Roland Park. It isn’t the least bit crappy.

Not knowing what they are talking about never stops anyone on dcum.

Those neighborhoods are actually north of the undergrad campus. They are much safer and more suburban than "Homewood," which is where students live and walk around all hours of the day and night. And you know it.

I think you are trying to mislead people who have not been there.

Home wood is the name of the campus, not a neighborhood.

Charles Village is the neighborhood where Hopkins undergrad is located. Guilford is directly north of campus, Roland Park is west. The rotunda, where Hopkins kids go to buy groceries, etc.. . Is in Roland Park/Keswick.

I think I am not misleading anyone and you have never been to the Hopkins undergrad campus.

[Anonymous]

I am the happy Hopkins undergrad Alum. I was in a sorority, most of my friends were also in fraternities sororities and played sports. I had a fun undergrad experience, had great professors and small class sizes as an International Studies major, and went to a top ten law school directly from college.

Where there some people with with poor social skills who hung out mostly in the library? Yes, there were, and they may not have a great college experience, but think that is more a reflection on them than the school. There are kids like that at most highly ranked colleges, law schools too, for that matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's in a crappy area. I think it's a great school, but JHU and Baltimore need to work on cleaning that mess up.

The hospital and medical school are in a crappy area. The undergrad campus is in Charles Village, With abuts Guilford and Roland Park. It isn’t the least bit crappy.

Not knowing what they are talking about never stops anyone on dcum.

Those neighborhoods are actually north of the undergrad campus. They are much safer and more suburban than "Homewood," which is where students live and walk around all hours of the day and night. And you know it.

I think you are trying to mislead people who have not been there.

Hi,

I do not want to hijack the thread but I do not know Baltimore. My DD and I visited Loyola last week and had a good visit and my general sense was that the neighborhood surrounding the school was quite nice.

I came back and told a colleague that we visited and he cautioned that I should have driven through the neighborhood to the East as that neighborhood was what he called “sketchy” - his words not mine. Can you please share your thoughts ? I subsequently went online and found articles talking about armed robberies on the Loyola campus. Granted they were from a couple of years ago but I really have no frame of reference.

DD and I had a nice time in Baltimore but I don’t want to be naive.

Thank you.

I moved to Baltimore from Chicago. The stories people told me about Baltimore had me intimidated because it sounded way beyond Chicago. There is plenty of crime in Baltimore, but my experience as a white lady walking around near the Homewood campus, and in the neighborhoods-including some tough ones, and traveling on foot, public transit, or uber, was that people were either neutral or friendly and kind. Make sure your daughter knows the basics of being safe in the city and she will be fine. If my own daughter went to JHU or Loyola, I'd worry more about frat parties than city living. Students in Baltimore, from what I saw, are quite cautious about where they go and when they go and they travel in big groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's in a crappy area. I think it's a great school, but JHU and Baltimore need to work on cleaning that mess up.

Yale is in a crappy area. No one thinks Yale is crappy based on New Haven.

Go visit both Yale and JHU. The environment at Yale is infinitely better. The two campuses are not comparible.

[Anonymous]

I don't think anybody would claim that JHU is not prestigious, or that does not have name recognition - overall is one of the finest institutions in all of the US, if not the world.. However, due to it's serious nature and somewhat blah looking campus, it is no ast "popular" as some of the more Rah Rah schools. I would place it in the same category as University of Chicago in this regard. Even so, in recent years U of C has tried to become more mainstream and less nerd through an onslaught of marketing materials are at times so cringey I'm not sure what their point is. JHU wins in that regard for staying true to its roots.

[Anonymous]

" Make sure your daughter knows the basics of being safe in the city and she will be fine. "

Is this the flip side of "the conversation" mothers have with certain sons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:" Make sure your daughter knows the basics of being safe in the city and she will be fine. "

Is this the flip side of "the conversation" mothers have with certain sons?

Hey Woke Police... OP has a daughter. That's why PP said daughter. Everyone should be telling their sons to be safe, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:" Make sure your daughter knows the basics of being safe in the city and she will be fine. "

Is this the flip side of "the conversation" mothers have with certain sons?

Hey Woke Police... OP has a daughter. That's why PP said daughter. Everyone should be telling their sons to be safe, too.

+ 1. Sons might get mugged, lose their wallets. A lot worse can happen to daughters. Common sense really..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because it's in a crappy area. I think it's a great school, but JHU and Baltimore need to work on cleaning that mess up.

Yale is in a crappy area. No one thinks Yale is crappy based on New Haven.

Go visit both Yale and JHU. The environment at Yale is infinitely better. The two campuses are not comparible.

Having been to both, Hopkins is actually in a nicer area. Yale does have undergrads on campus for 4 years which is a plus.