Anonymous wrote:I find it hilarious that parents here have such passionate feelings about various top ranked schools. In reality none of your kids are going to have their pick from among these schools. Apply broadly to a reasonable number of schools, including reaches and safeties, and be humble. If you are this picky even before you have an offer of admission, you are seriously going to shoot yourself in the foot.

Anonymous wrote:I would take Emory over JHU as it is more we’ll-rounded and Atlanta>Baltimore.

GA Tech is a world class engineering school. STEM <> Engineering so comparing the two is not apples to apples. Tech also has great sports which is a plus.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to learn: Hopkins was one of the first elite schools to get rid of legacy admissions. It has a lot of $ and a large financial aid budget due to the generosity of Bloomberg's donations. It has a very diverse student body and has very well regarded humanities and social sciences and music. Because of their emphasis on research, I always thought of Hopkins as a stem oriented school but seems like it has many other academic strengths.

JHU endowment per student is not high. Just sayin’

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to learn: Hopkins was one of the first elite schools to get rid of legacy admissions. It has a lot of $ and a large financial aid budget due to the generosity of Bloomberg's donations. It has a very diverse student body and has very well regarded humanities and social sciences and music. Because of their emphasis on research, I always thought of Hopkins as a stem oriented school but seems like it has many other academic strengths.

JHU endowment per student is not high. Just sayin’

Anonymous wrote:Did someone just get into Emory?

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Anonymous wrote:Since most people on this forum are DMV parents, we see the name Johns Hopkins plastered on every other hospital & clinic, and therefore see Hopkins as a hub of medicine, bio, and healthcare. Schools that pigeonhole themselves into one specific academic discipline (like Caltech, MIT, HMC) tend to not be top of mind for parents whose children don't fit their niche. I won't deny that Hopkins doesn't have amazing programs for other disciplines, but medicine/STEM controls the campus. Also, in this day and age, DCUM posters love to push the idea that you can "backdoor" into T20s by majoring in undersubscribed majors like classics and medieval history, but that doesn't seem to work at Hopkins.

I actually attended Hopkins. STEM does not control the campus. It also surprises me how confidently posters here toss out false info about both Hopkins and Baltimore.

"I went to X college being currently discussed" doesn't work on here anymore. Too many liars and fake anecdotes used to push talking points. Even if you did attend Hopkins, you would be incorrect in saying that it isn't a STEM-heavy school. If you truly believe otherwise, support your argument.

I said STEM doesn’t control the campus, whatever that is suppose to mean. I wasn’t a STEM major and never felt like a second class citizen. Pretty sure you never stepped foot on campus as a student so are just talking out of your ass.

All you're doing is supporting the people trashing your alma mater with this sour attitude. Seems like Hopkins reflects the moody, ratchet population of Baltimore.

And there's no use in touting your non-STEM Hopkins degree. Unless it was IR or Econ, you should've went to a state school.

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to learn: Hopkins was one of the first elite schools to get rid of legacy admissions. It has a lot of $ and a large financial aid budget due to the generosity of Bloomberg's donations. It has a very diverse student body and has very well regarded humanities and social sciences and music. Because of their emphasis on research, I always thought of Hopkins as a stem oriented school but seems like it has many other academic strengths.

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Anonymous wrote:How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

Georgia: Emory, Gtech, Uof Georgia.

Not nearly as good or nationally important

Emory is more important than UMD and Georgetown. On par with Hopkins for health majors. Gatech on par with Hopkins for engineering majors. UGA also is more impact full than UMD.

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Anonymous wrote:How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

Georgia: Emory, Gtech, Uof Georgia.

Not nearly as good or nationally important

Emory is more important than UMD and Georgetown. On par with Hopkins for health majors. Gatech on par with Hopkins for engineering majors. UGA also is more impact full than UMD.

Haha, you overrated Emory and UGA and underrated Georgia Tech. Must be the Georgia public education to spell impactful the way you did.

You're delusional
Emory vs Georgetown
Undergrad- Tie
Law school- Georgetown
Medical school- Emory
Business school -Emory
Nursing- Emory
Global ranking- Emory

Won't even compare it to UMD because that would be an insult.

JHU is better but for health majors (public health, premed, nursing) they are tied.

Emory vs Gatech
Undergrad- Emory
Business- Emory
Global ranking- Tie
Don't share any other colleges, Emory is better

Georgetown vs Gatech
Undergrad- Georgetown
Business- Georgetown
Global ranking- Gatech
Dont share any other colleges, Georgetown is better

UGA vs UMD
Undergrad- tie
Business- UGA
Law- UGA
Medicine- UMD
Nursing- UMD
Engineering- UMD
Global ranking- UMD
I was incorrect about this paring but they are in fact close, however UMD is better.

You must have gone to Gatech, good school but not elite.
JHU>Emory>Georgetown>>Gatech>UMD>UGA

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Anonymous wrote:How lucky is the Maryland area to have Big Ten UMD, Georgetown, Annapolis and Hopkins in such a small radius? Outside Massachusetts it's #1

Georgia: Emory, Gtech, Uof Georgia.

Not nearly as good or nationally important

Emory is more important than UMD and Georgetown. On par with Hopkins for health majors. Gatech on par with Hopkins for engineering majors. UGA also is more impact full than UMD.