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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I was a grad student there in the early 200s and thought it seemed miserable for undergrads then (based on being a TA).  I said I'd never want my kids to go there.

However I've met some undergrads who graduated in the last 10 years who are very positive about their experience and say it was a great place to go to college. I think the campus and campus life have improved in the intervening years, definitely, but on the other hand college students don't have another experience to compare it with.[/quote]

I was also a grad student in the late 90's and I was disappointed that Johns Hopkins did essentially nothing to guide these highly impressionable young adults in any way from a social development stand point.  So many of the kids were highly focused on grades and competition, fighting for every point (even if they already had a 98% and were clearly WRONG on the 2%), grade grubbing.  We even had students cheating the second semester of their senior year in final exams outside of their major area - RIGHT IN FRONT OF GRAD STUDENTS in our department.  There was no moral compass.  For other kids who were bright or were athletes, it could be hard (I was a mentor to these kinds of students). This was very different from the undergraduate school I went to, where the school, at least, talked about honor, and tried to lead/guide students by emphasizing character.  Hopkins lacked all of this for their undergrads.  But - it's been 20 years so things may have changed.  [/quote]

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