Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 08:29     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous wrote:Don’t all dorms at all colleges have security? Don’t all of them require a keycard to get in? How is Hopkins any different?

JHU area is like an island in a middle of a bombed out 3rd world country, enclosed by high chain link fences and they have to provide security services to student to go to/fro bus stops/train stations.


are you talking about the Homewood campus or the medical one? the medical one could be perhaps described like that. but the Homewood one is nothing like that, it actually has kind of a suburban feel. it's very green and spread out. doesn't feel unsafe at all.


The area surrounding is not great. My friend was mugged at the Mod Pizza and I had to step around a drugged out homeless person to get into the Moms Organic Market.


If you live in an American city, this is what happens. It is very common to see homeless people sitting or lying on NYC streets.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 08:27     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous wrote:Any time anyone asks about any city, a bunch of people who haven't set foot in that city for decades (if ever) will tell you how dangerous it is

The area around the entire JHU undergrad campus is nice to very nice and getting better. The area around the JHU hospital and medical campus is not nice, though it's actually fine south toward Fells Point now (other directions are not good at all). But a JHU undergrad is likely to spend 4 years without setting foot on the East Baltimore medical campus

My son is in grad school at UChicago. Everything east of the west end of campus all the way to the Lake, and north of the Midway is very nice. Outside those parameters, it gets very bad very quickly. The JHU undergrad campus is surrounded on all sides by good neighborhoods, UChicago is not as much of a protected island


Not sure how long ago you were a student there, but the third most popular major now is public health. And those classes are on the medical campus so…you are wrong.


Seniors in Public Health take courses at Bloomberg. So yes, you are right - seniors in one specific major do set foot on the East Baltimore campus. Few of them are murdered


Do professors start the term with “Look to the right —that person will flunk out. Look to the left —that person will be murdered.”?

If JHU was that dangerous, there would be hundreds of threads here on DCUM about the pretty coeds who died because they dared venture into big bad Baltimore.

Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 08:20     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Anonymous wrote:I’m not local but I wouldn’t want my kids to study in or near Baltimore. Too dangerous.


It really isn’t though.

If you aren’t involved in something shady or wandering around doing poverty tourism, you are no more likely to experience violence there than in any major US city. There’s zero reason for your college student to be in a bad neighborhood.

My friends and I all have at least one kid who graduated from a university in Baltimore City or Towson in the past ten years. About 10 kids total. All Blair grads. None experienced any violence first hand in Baltimore. One saw a violent fistfight between two students at a party. Seven of those 10 stayed in Baltimore City after getting their degrees. Other than an occasional porch pirate, they still aren’t experiencing violence.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 08:05     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Anonymous wrote:Do the math if you are a straight white Catholic male

Freshman class is only 1,250 it is only 18 percent white or 225 White people in class. Of that 225 it is 60 percent male as a stem school so 90 girls. Of that 90 girls most will be stem type nerds or non Christian etc. now we are talking 10-30 datable girls.

Meanwhile my lesser rated Catholic college was like 52 percent women the majority white and Catholic. I like to date in college, have girlfriends, go to keg parties. Plus my school bigger 20,000 kids. I literally had like 5,000 pretty girls to date my grade alone.

Plus I could go off campus on a safe neighborhood to meet girls.

And don’t laugh kids do go to school to date and meet people. If I was black I go to Howard not John Hopkins.

The school is a prision for a fun outgoing kid


Only white girls are “dateable”?
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 07:59     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous wrote:Don’t all dorms at all colleges have security? Don’t all of them require a keycard to get in? How is Hopkins any different?

JHU area is like an island in a middle of a bombed out 3rd world country, enclosed by high chain link fences and they have to provide security services to student to go to/fro bus stops/train stations.


are you talking about the Homewood campus or the medical one? the medical one could be perhaps described like that. but the Homewood one is nothing like that, it actually has kind of a suburban feel. it's very green and spread out. doesn't feel unsafe at all.


The area surrounding is not great. My friend was mugged at the Mod Pizza and I had to step around a drugged out homeless person to get into the Moms Organic Market.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 07:57     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
The culture there is the worst. So cutthroat.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 06:11     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
My DS walks his dog up through the path that passes through Roland Park and Tuscany Canterbury. Those are so gorgeous and pricey homes. Plenty of others are on the trail too. Not sure where others are talking about. Maybe mixing up the University and hospital.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 06:03     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Don’t all dorms at all colleges have security? Don’t all of them require a keycard to get in? How is Hopkins any different?

JHU area is like an island in a middle of a bombed out 3rd world country, enclosed by high chain link fences and they have to provide security services to student to go to/fro bus stops/train stations.


are you talking about the Homewood campus or the medical one? the medical one could be perhaps described like that. but the Homewood one is nothing like that, it actually has kind of a suburban feel. it's very green and spread out. doesn't feel unsafe at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 00:17     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Very scary area. Unsafe to walk or jog. Depressing.
Anonymous
Post 02/14/2024 00:15     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
I loved the proximity (not too near, not too far, not worried about Baltimore locale) and excellent reputation, but it seemed too cutthroat for dd who wanted very collaborative. Also, the present Peabody as being open to nonmajors, but friends in the music school say it's not very accessible.

Had heard some collaborative reviews of engineering and might have pushed DD to consider it, but she preferred other options.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 23:27     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
One look of the area around Hopkins and my DD was done. 🤢
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 21:12     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Baltimore and don’t fit the profile the JHU president is looking for.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:24     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, part of living in BMore is having to explain why you live in BMore.

I think it is a badge of honor though some perceive it as a tear drop tattoo.


Ha! Love it. And extra points for a Cry Baby reference.

20 years in Baltimore (Charles Village/Hampden) and one broken window is the extent of the crime I’ve experienced. And despite what PP says about how “BLM destroyed Baltimore” (lol) I’ve had some very nice property appreciation.


I bought a rowhouse in 1999 for $135k and sold it in 2005 for $325k, bought a single family house in Homeland for $450k that’s now worth at least $650k. But I will probably never sell because I’m not willing to give up my $1800 monthly mortgage payment.

Never had a crime but my neighbor lost some change from his car when he left it unlocked one time
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:12     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
Anonymous wrote:Unsafe for Indian students from India as well as Indian American students.


Just went on their tour.. there is nothing but Indians from India there - 100%
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2024 20:10     Subject: Why is JHU not especially popular w DC kids?
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Anonymous wrote:Too close to home and the culture may seem too intense...


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?


Hopkins undergrad is in North Baltimore, surrounded by one middle class and two wealthy neighborhoods. For a irban school, it is quite safe. Always amuses me that posters here talk about how dangerous it is — UVA has had a number of murders over the past decade, Hopkins has not.


You only have to drive a block or so from campus to see drug addicts staggering around. If you're ok with your kids being around that, fine, you do you.


Same with Georgetown, GW, USC (the California school), every school in Arizona, Miami......