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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeez. This board takes such strange pleasure in dumping on JHU. It’s a great school, lovely campus, smart students. They have top programs in multiple disciplines from medicine to humanities. The athletes are very smart b/c they have high standards to qualify as a recruit.  The students work hard but they also have fun and my kid has lots of friends and is happy. I think its really peculiar that people, even though they don’t have a kid there, bother to click on this link to write nasty things about it instead of offering anything that could help OP.  What is wrong with people?[/quote]

lowering competition. bethesda magazine showed it had the [b]highest number of applications and yield[/b] within dmv compared to other top schools. these clowns think they can lower competition when acceptance rate is 5%[/quote]

Do you have a link to that?[/quote]

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/09/10/mcps-students-college/[/quote]

Confirmed that you are right about JHU.  Competition is the most fierce in dmv:

School	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	
[b]JHU		490		28 		(5.7%)	[/b]
Penn		490		31 		(6.3%)	
Chicago	171		11 		(6.4%)	
Duke		363		25 		(6.9%)	
NU		328		28 		(8.5%)

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Thanks!  Never knew it’s so popular in DMV.  Wow[/quote]
This is certain mid-tier public schools; it is not a popular option with competitive private school kids, even as the ED2 fallback. Hard to convince most competitive kids to even apply.[/quote]

Same at our private.  No one is interested in JHU.  It’s a grind school.  Quite a few steps below other T10 schools.  Chicago is very popular.  Kids in mid or below gpa range would apply ED1 Chicago, ivy rejected apply ED2.  [/quote]

JHU is ranked higher than Chicago and Chicago is supposed to be the school where "fun goes to die."  So, you're saying that kids at your kids' school think of Chicago as less grindy and a better education than JHU?  Here on the west coast, both seem well regarded (both are "Ivy plus" schools) and are difficult admits.  My kid visited and loved both.  As a parent, I don't love the surrounding areas of either school.[/quote]

I don't think JHU is materially higher than Chicago. I view the two as interchangeable - just below Ivies (but better than 99% of the other schools out there). I would personally choose Chicago over JHU but I can definitely see why someone might go the other way.[/quote]

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