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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm one of the grad student responders above and have a related question - would the issues with competitiveness and lack of guidance/guardrails for social development occur at all highly competitive schools (HYPSMC plus T10/T20) or is this unique to Johns Hopkins (or JHU plus "some" others). Would like to steer my child away from even considering such schools in their small set of "reach" schools.[/quote]

I'm a prior responder who was an undergrad.  Honest question - what are people thinking other colleges offer as far as "guardrails for social development?"  Full disclosure I didn't strongly encourage my dd to apply to Hopkins when it came time because I knew she was looking for a different sort of school, but pre-meds are going to be a pretty competitive bunch at any highly selective school.  I was IR (international relations) at Hopkins, I'm not a particularly competitive grind-y person, the environment was great for me.  Hopkins is not a big rah-rah school spirit type of place, and it leans more pre-professional than intellectual (in hindsight I wish I had known that before going.)  But I had some amazing professors, brilliant classmates, and honestly I also had a lot of fun in college. [/quote]

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