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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins is almost all rich (70% make over $120K) and all asian/middle eastern Americans and international.  I think it may be 35% white.

It is a typical international type of undegraduate school.  Not a lot of partying, not a lot of sports, not a lot of socializing.  The main and only goal is study and get into graduate school.  That is not a bad thing, but it isn't the experience many Americans want.  For my child, she was in a top rigorous private school and wanted nothing to do with the same atmosphere in college. She wants some socializing, school spirit, and lots of friends and memories.  She still chose a top school, but wanted a more social feel.  For kids that don't want the American fluff, chose JHU.  It is no nonsense.

Also, JHU is less than 10% in-state.  People around here know it is in a terrible neighborhood. Unless they truly want to be a doctor, all the other ivy's seem more appealing to kids around here.  [/quote]

New poster here. 
I went to public health graduate school at Hopkins and met my husband who was in medical school.  I lived in Charles Village and did most of my studying on the main campus (Homewood).  I agree with this poster and the one before who's dad was a professor.  
While we had a great time in the greater Hopkins/Baltimore community in our 20's, I would never want my kids to go there for undergrad.  It's difficult to explain but it just always felt like a pretty soulless and competitive place.  Think of your typical pre-med 
undergraduate organic chemistry course and then extrapolate it to almost an entire university.   I came from a small liberal arts college and my husband from a large state school and both of our undergraduate colleges had about 100 times the joy and life of Hopkins undergrad. 
it's just dull.  And seemingly very competitive.  Something like 99% of the kids are pre-med (I exaggerate but it's pretty darn high).  That does not make for a fun environment.  
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Doe JHU have an inordinately high success rate placing those pre-med undergrads in medical school?  I mean wouldnt your odds be much better to go to, a state flagship or a 20-40 ranked SLAC and be THE kid with the great GPA?  I mean there must be JHU kids who are middle to low of the pack at JHU who never get into medical school but would otherwise shine at a diff school.  [/quote]

Their pre-med office webpage states that 80% of their graduates who apply to medical school are accepted.

Somewhere else I read said that up to 40% of their graduates will apply to medical school.  So not 99% but pretty darn high for any university. [/quote]

There is no standard way of counting percentages that are accepted, so you have to take anything with a grain of salt.  Some may cite all that apply, some only those with over a certain GPA, and others only those that get a recommendation from a committee.[/quote]

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