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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too close to home and the culture may seem too intense...[/quote]

Can someone compare it to UChicago?  I feel as though people avoid JHU because it's "intense" and because the neighborhood is unsafe, and yet there is so much Chicago love in DC, and I think people would say the same things about Chicago.

Are they intense in different ways?  Are the neighborhoods substantially different?[/quote]

Hopkins undergrad is in North Baltimore, surrounded by one middle class and two wealthy neighborhoods.  For a irban school, it is quite safe.  Always amuses me that posters here talk about how dangerous it is — UVA has had a number of murders over the past decade, Hopkins has not.

Hopkins is a far more athletics driven school than Chicago.  In addition to having perennial T20 D1 lacrosse teams, the d3 football, baseball, field hockey, track and field and swimming teams consistently do well and often advance to the NCAA playoffs.  I also think Chicago is more intellectual, Hopkins more pre professional.

About a third of the students are active in Greek life.

Having gone to Hopkins and now living back in Baltimore, there is no school that DCUM posters consistently get wrong.  Yes, there are geeky kids, as there are at every college, particularly at a T10.  There is also a sizable portion of social kids who go out every weekend (when I was a student, weekends started on Wednesday).  [/quote]

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