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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopkins. 61  , Vandy 39
Hopkins 65, UCLA 35
Hopkins 53, Wash U 47
Hopkins 68, Mich 32
Hopkins 80, Emory 20

Comes close to the lower Ivies, but can’t match them
Hopkins 49 Cornell 51

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But as OP would probably admit, since JHU is ranked well above those schools, they aren’t the peers…right?[/quote]

They aren’t going to beat out the Ivies, Stanford and MIT.  Who does?

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Well we already basically beat out Cornell, so all the Ivies can't be lumped together. And Duke beats out a ton of Ivies for cross-admits, so why can't we? We're ranked higher and we have better prestige than Duke.[/quote]

JHU does not beat out Cornell though? It's pretty much 50-50.[/quote]

I disagree, Cornell definitely considers us a threat and we likely take a large number of cross-admits from them. [/quote]

As a Cornell alum, I can confidently say we don't really view JHU as a "threat" for taking our admitted students. Truthfully from the perspective of Ivy League schools, we mostly only worry about losing students to each other, and very few schools outside of the Ivy League are considered equivalent "threats." But don't take my word for it, from our own financial aid website ([url]https://finaid.cornell.edu/special-circumstances/appealing-your-aid-decision[/url]): "Cornell is unable to consider evaluating scholarship offers that are not from another Ivy League institution, Stanford, Duke or MIT or offers based on athletics and/or merit." From the original release announcing and defending this policy: "Of the students who said where they planned to enroll, they most often chose the Ivies, Stanford, Duke or MIT over Cornell, Keane said. Princeton and Harvard were each the choice of 7 percent of accepted students who declined Cornell; UPenn and MIT were each the choice of 5 percent; Duke and Yale were each the choice of 4 percent; and Columbia, Stanford and Dartmouth University were each the choice of 3 percent." So we really only consider Stanford, Duke, and MIT to be serious competitors outside of the Ivy League. But that is understandable because many of the Ivies feel that way about those 3 schools. Of course, JHU is still a great school and I'm sure many people deciding between JHU and Cornell have a very difficult time deciding.[/quote]

Wow Cornell just laid it all out there. More schools should follow in their footsteps.[/quote]

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