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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) Their foreign studies school is phenomenal
2) How many of the cross-admits cited apply for anything but pre-med or foreign studies
3) No sane kid outside of those majors or a lacrosse recruit chooses 4 years at the University of Chicago of Baltimore over the Harvard of the South. [/quote]

Duke wins the lacrosse recruit battle over Hopkins too.[/quote]

Who cares? We're still a much better academic and research institution than Duke. Makes no sense why parents would send their kids to Duke if they also got into Hopkins. Maybe their kids aren't serious about studying, because the only real knock on Hopkins is that it's hard and not everyone can handle it. The campus and its safety are fine and just fake problems being created by people who never actually went there. Duke is better for kids looking to get a degree while ensuring they have time to party 3+ times a week.[/quote]

I have a degree from Johns Hopkins and taught at a top boarding school in the DMV for 11 years, and I will say you are improperly characterizing both schools. Hopkins is hard, but there is still plenty of opportunity for fun. On the other hand, while I've never studied at Duke, I know they attract very intelligent and serious students and not just party animals; the best kid I ever taught ended up going to Duke for his undergraduate degree. He was a very serious, inquisitive, and dedicated student who is now a top researcher at a government lab. His work in DNA sequencing has been fundamental to many of our most important technologies and their applications such as CRISPR.[/quote]

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