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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the nerds vs. grinds distinction.

Re why there's more conversation here about Chicago than Hopkins.  My sense is that most people posting on DCUM value institutional prestige without having much sense of/interest in its sources.  I think, historically, Chicago has been perceived of as a prestigious school that was relatively easy to get into (as an undergraduate) compared to its academic peers.  Hopkins, by contrast, has been pigeon-holed as a pre-med school and non-academics aren't aware of how good some of its humanities departments are.

It's probably also a familiarity breeds contempt scenario.  If you live in the area, you probably have a sense of which kids from the local HS go to JHU and/or you have some exposure through CTY.  And if that's not the cohort you envision your kid wanting (or if your kid wants to use college as a time to see what it's like to live somewhere else), then it's easy to cross Hopkins off the list.  By contrast, Chicago's more of an abstraction (or a question mark -- so people ask).[/quote]

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