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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]

My child did undergrad at one and grad at the other. Here my thoughts.

- JHU is and really feels more STEM-focused. 
- Class difficulty was described as similar but the quarter system alone is responsible for a good bit of the intensity at UChicago while JHU is on semesters. 
- The heavy focus on research, even for undergrads, felt similar. 
- At least in my student's field, classes and the labs my kid was affiliated with felt more collaborative than competitive at both universities.
- My kid spent many, many waking hours working at both universities. This is just a given and students who aren't prepared to do that should avoid both schools. But some students are looking to devote themselves to their studies and traditionally there is a self-selecting dimension to undergraduate admission at both universities.
- Clever and quirky undergrads living and working together will make their own fun with whatever time they have to spare even if they define that differently than you do. 
- It is entirely possible to avoid and care nothing at all about sports at both campuses if you don't care about sports. That isn't to say that no one else cares, but my kid doesn't care.
- Charles Village itself and some of the surrounding neighborhoods popular with students (Hampden, Roland Park, Remington) feel a bit nicer than Hyde Park and I believe crime is a little lower. It might also be that UChicago is better at informing about neighborhood crime. 
- But a few more blocks beyond the Homewood campus you can get to some serious desolation in Baltimore. The non-desolate radius around UChicago is much bigger. Then again, UChicago is much bigger than the Homewood campus and Chicago is itself much bigger than Baltimore.[/quote]

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