Anonymous wrote:If Hopkins were in a wealthy small town like Princeton then the denizens of DCUM would be fawning over Hopkins the same way. Let's just be frank here.

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Anonymous wrote:Foolishness

Hopkins SAIS -> one of the world's leading centers for the study of international affairs
Hopkins APL -> pipeline from Whiting to the APL
Hopkins Peabody -> Top 10 Music Conservatory
Hopkins Med -> well at least you'd heard of that

Heck, even the Writing Seminars program spat out P.J. O'Rourke, Wes Craven, David Lipsky

Yeah, no one is doubting JHU's grad programs are stellar. The school simply hasn't invested enough in its undergrads, like UChicago until the 2010s. It's simple as that! That's why the school does so terribly in cross-admit battles against schools both above and below its caliber.

Anonymous wrote:Foolishness

Hopkins SAIS -> one of the world's leading centers for the study of international affairs
Hopkins APL -> pipeline from Whiting to the APL
Hopkins Peabody -> Top 10 Music Conservatory
Hopkins Med -> well at least you'd heard of that

Heck, even the Writing Seminars program spat out P.J. O'Rourke, Wes Craven, David Lipsky

Anonymous wrote:Because it's not peers with those schools?

Hopkins is overranked because of federal funding for its medical research and Applied Physics Lab. While I'm sure the medical research has some carryover for undergrad students in biological sciences, it doesn't do much for anything outside of those subjects. The APL is based a 30 minutes drive off campus so it's not of much use to physics/engineering undergrad students.

The Ivies are Ivies, and therefore recognized globally. Duke is well-recognized nationally in every industry due to it's breadth of competencies and also basketball. Hopkins is well recognized nationally but primarily as a pre-med school.

Anonymous wrote:Because it's not peers with those schools?

Hopkins is overranked because of federal funding for its medical research and Applied Physics Lab. While I'm sure the medical research has some carryover for undergrad students in biological sciences, it doesn't do much for anything outside of those subjects. The APL is based a 30 minutes drive off campus so it's not of much use to physics/engineering undergrad students.

The Ivies are Ivies, and therefore recognized globally. Duke is well-recognized nationally in every industry due to it's breadth of competencies and also basketball. Hopkins is well recognized nationally but primarily as a pre-med school.

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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)

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

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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