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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems very overranked.

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You can believe that it is overrated but the fact of the matter is that US News, which publishes by far the most important ranking in terms of reach, has ranked Hopkins as a top 10 school in each of the last 5 years. They also received a great $1.8 billion donation from Bloomberg specifically for financial aid. His gifts of over $3.5 billion have been a game changer and make the future look very bright there since it is unlikely he won't pledge even more money to his alma mater.[/quote]

US News is cool but when it comes down to making an actual decision about where to go, no one actually cares. Remember when Stanford was 6th or lower for the longest time, but they still only lost the cross-admit battle to Harvard? No one cared that Princeton was ranked 5 spots ahead of Stanford for years, people know what the best schools are. And Johns Hopkins is not better than Caltech, Duke, or Northwestern despite what US News says.[/quote]

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