Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Johns Hopkins:

You will work harder than you have ever worked before in your young life -> for a B-
You will go to "parties" where several kids are huddled in a corner -> studying
You will find that several 6 foot 2 mouth breathing lacrosse players are -> much smarter than you
You will eventually be graded on a curve and discover that your 94% course average is -> a B-
You will find that several of the better students transfer out to less notable colleges because -> four years of this BS before grad school just isn't worth it
You will -> throat or be throated

You will graduate and discover that the general public doesn't actually know anything about what you survived -> but the ones that do give you RESPECT (and jobs)

My husband is a Hopkins alum and this is so true!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its ranking leads to many students who would prefer not to attend to still apply.

It being in a major American city would generally be a plus point, but Baltimore is so crime-ridden and run down that it scares parents and students away.

It's known as a pre-med gindfest. Unlike rigorous Chicago, there's no aspect of "love of learning". It's all about getting into med school.

It's less of a university with a medical school attached and more of a medical school with a university attached. As a result, the undergraduate school isn't particularly accommodative or attentive to undergrads to the extent that similar schools are (Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.)

Med school isn’t attached — it’s located in another part of town. And faculty (most of whom have zero connection to the med school) are attentive to (interested) undergrads.

Hopkins is one of those schools where people who know nothing about it feel very comfortable posting totally inaccurate opinions.
Hopkins has a really pretty undergrad campus with active Greek life and strong division 1 and 3 sports. Lots of student athletes.

Many of the undergraduate programs are highly ranked independent of their graduate schools, including international studies and writing seminars, many engineering majors and of course, the natural sciences.

Anonymous wrote:Idk. Cross admit data is old and has always been pretty flawed. Hard to measure. Yield rate is better if you take into account the fact that some schools only do REA and some do ED2. Among “top” schools it’s pretty much:

HYPSM
Gap
Rest of Ivies
Northwestern
Duke
Gap
Vanderbilt, JHU, etc

Uchicago is up there too but they ED2 and rig it a lot. No clue why JHU is much lower than Duke and NW, honestly surprised that NW is higher than Duke, and a little disappointed that the Ivy name still means so much.

Ignore cross admit stuff tho. Outdated and inaccurate

Anonymous wrote:Idk. Cross admit data is old and has always been pretty flawed. Hard to measure. Yield rate is better if you take into account the fact that some schools only do REA and some do ED2. Among “top” schools it’s pretty much:

HYPSM
Gap
Rest of Ivies
Northwestern
Duke
Gap
Vanderbilt, JHU, etc

Uchicago is up there too but they ED2 and rig it a lot. No clue why JHU is much lower than Duke and NW, honestly surprised that NW is higher than Duke, and a little disappointed that the Ivy name still means so much.

Ignore cross admit stuff tho. Outdated and inaccurate

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At Johns Hopkins:

You will work harder than you have ever worked before in your young life -> for a B-
You will go to "parties" where several kids are huddled in a corner -> studying
You will find that several 6 foot 2 mouth breathing lacrosse players are -> much smarter than you
You will eventually be graded on a curve and discover that your 94% course average is -> a B-
You will find that several of the better students transfer out to less notable colleges because -> four years of this BS before grad school just isn't worth it
You will -> throat or be throated

You will graduate and discover that the general public doesn't actually know anything about what you survived -> but the ones that do give you RESPECT (and jobs)

My husband is a Hopkins alum and this is so true!

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Anonymous wrote:At Johns Hopkins:

You will work harder than you have ever worked before in your young life -> for a B-
You will go to "parties" where several kids are huddled in a corner -> studying
You will find that several 6 foot 2 mouth breathing lacrosse players are -> much smarter than you
You will eventually be graded on a curve and discover that your 94% course average is -> a B-
You will find that several of the better students transfer out to less notable colleges because -> four years of this BS before grad school just isn't worth it
You will -> throat or be throated

You will graduate and discover that the general public doesn't actually know anything about what you survived -> but the ones that do give you RESPECT (and jobs)

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Anonymous wrote:It’s rigorous and shrinking violets hate it. The number 1 research institution in the United States by far and they expect results.

One of the 8 most important higher ed institutions in the country .

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Hopkins
Annapolis
West Point
Stanford

If the topic is the 8 most important institutions of higher education in the country, my list would be different. But, I think that it is ridiculous to try to limit such a list to just 8 schools.

My list would start with the 5 service academies (national security), Michigan, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Washington at Seattle. Then MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Wisconsin.

While great academic institutions, I do not see Princeton or Yale as being among the top 10 or top 20 most important institutions of higher ed in the country. UCal- Berkeley, UCLA, & UC-San Diego are far more important to the country than are Princeton & Yale.