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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it true that Hopkins is kind of like U of Chicago? Life of the mind and all that? But skewed a little more science/tech than Chicago's undergrad population? Maybe that's not true... just curious. TIA[/quote]

No ot at all.  Hopkins is not an intellectual place, very pre-professional as another poster put it.  And I think International Studies remains the most popular major.[/quote]

Chicago’s gotten more pre-professional.  And both Chicago and Hopkins are potentially good places (from a faculty mentorship standpoint) for undergrads who think they want to pursue PhD.  I think that the two main differences, from a college perspective, are that Hopkins doesn’t have the Core (and the attitudes/undergrads that go with it) and, at Hopkins, the pre-PhD kids were outliers and, as a result, some chose to function more as jr grad students.  BA/MA programs and off campus housing facilitated that and there are some newish fellowships/research grants that encourage it as well.[/quote]

Hopkins has recently increased the amount of on campus housing in the past decade or so.[/quote]

Chicago has as well, but both are still different from the residential college/everybody lives on campus all 4 years model.  I’m certainly not saying a student at Hopkins (or Chicago) can’t have what DCUM considers a typical (or desirable) undergrad-centered college experience — just that both schools leave more space for kids who aren’t really looking for that so much.[/quote]

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