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[quote=Anonymous]What are you viewing as “peer” schools?  I’d guess that for many top tier students, even the pre-meds, JHU might not be their first choice school.  So many students who get accepted are also getting accepted to schools that they would prefer to attend.  JHU has a lot to recommend it, but it also might not compare favorably with other options that students might have. A student longing for Bright Lights and Big City Life has a lot of choices, starting with NYC that might seem preferable.  Baltimore and nearby Baltimore County have multiple universities and colleges — but possible not what someone wanting a college town atmosphere might be looking for.  People who don’t know Baltimore beyond watching The Wire might be turned off — not realizing that JHU offers a completely different environment.  I also think that many students apply to multiple schools, so, what the acceptance rate actually means depends on what the “peer” schools are.

As an example, FWIW, I was accepted by JHU as an undergrad, and liked what I saw.  I was also accepted by Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Howard, and other schools.  Each acceptance gave me a different decision tree, and JHU wasn’t my top choice on any of the factors that mattered to me — although it might have been my second choice on most of those factors.

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