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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JHU medical school and some graduate programs are top totch.  But the undergraduate student population is so so, especially if your kid is not into sciences.[/quote]

30,000 applications and 9.2% acceptance rate...how are the undergraduates, so so?[/quote]

My anecdotal and longish-ago experience as a TA in the humanities was that I had several international students whose English was not good enough to participate in class at a proficient level or do college-level writing and a ton of science majors who weren't interested or invested (they were taking the course to fulfill a requirement). It just felt unbalanced to have so few humanities students who were interested and engaged in the material.[/quote]

I taught there in a non-science field and had some really excellent undergraduate students (a couple are now tenured profs at Georgetown and Yale, others have really interesting careers in law, media, arts — and those are just the ones I know about).  Aside from these standouts, there were a lot of competent pre-professional kids and I never had a course (including the intro course in my discipline) where I encountered students who lacked the language skills to participate in discussions.  Obviously this, too, was years ago.  But in the past few years I revisited JHU as part of my own kid’s college search.  My strong impression was that the things I valued (really excellent liberal arts faculty, scale, libraries/museums) were still there and significant improvements had been made in stuff that had been kinda substandard (dorms, study space on campus).  There’s also a new 4 year undergrad research mentorship program that looks great and builds on, for me, what was Hopkins’ strong suit at the college level — the opportunity for academically-oriented undergrads to function as jr grad students.  Kids we met on/through the tour were smart, well spoken, focused on the right things).  Not a school for everyone, but really great for some kids.  And seriously underrated by people who think of it only as a (pre-/) med school and/or who are scared of Baltimore.[/quote]

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