I hope your child likes it...time will tell.

I went there for graduate school, and felt it was a greedy place financially.

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.

My kid EDed there and is beyond excited about attending. Haters gonna hate, but for the right kid it’s a dream come true.

Anonymous wrote:Went there for grad school and would never want my kids to go there for undergrad. It just seemed bureaucratic and miserable compared to my undergrad experience. I’ve met some younger slums who had great experiences in my department (somewhat to my surprise), but it would be hard for me to pay tuition for a school that seemed kind of lacking in warmth and social cohesion.

*alums*

Went there for grad school and would never want my kids to go there for undergrad. It just seemed bureaucratic and miserable compared to my undergrad experience. I’ve met some younger slums who had great experiences in my department (somewhat to my surprise), but it would be hard for me to pay tuition for a school that seemed kind of lacking in warmth and social cohesion.

Anonymous wrote:So when I went back to my reunion there, students seemed overall happier than when I was there. That being said, I had a positive experience. Do not get me wrong, it can be an extremely tough social experience.

It is also a hard school to be at if you do not want to go on to some type of graduate degree and want a marketable major undergrad that you can get a good job with out of the gate.

I'm not sure I would encourage my children to go there unless they were an extremely driven, very hard working student.

They have pass fail first semester (at least they did when I went there) and there is a very clear reason for that. It is a tough, tough school.

they dropped it last year or the year before.

alums are not happy - atleast the ones i speak to. I was already lukewarm in recommending it to kids who ask me about JHU but once they did that, I have told virtually any kid that asks to look elsewhere.

JHU is a great academic instutituion but at the UG level you can get a way better experience at a peer school.

It's too hard, grindy, with a terrible social scene. undergraduate should be different.

So when I went back to my reunion there, students seemed overall happier than when I was there. That being said, I had a positive experience. Do not get me wrong, it can be an extremely tough social experience.

It is also a hard school to be at if you do not want to go on to some type of graduate degree and want a marketable major undergrad that you can get a good job with out of the gate.

I'm not sure I would encourage my children to go there unless they were an extremely driven, very hard working student.

They have pass fail first semester (at least they did when I went there) and there is a very clear reason for that. It is a tough, tough school.

We looked at JHU with our daughter. It didn't really seem to have any sort of personality or distinctive traits or traditions besides "kids who spend a lot of time in the library." Of course studying hard is important but my daughter wanted more out of her college experience than that which is why she did not apply.

JHU should buy up the entire city and make it their own fiefdom.

Reviving this thread -- any changes in the last five years? What is the view of Johns Hopkins at your high school? My DC attends a D.C. private and Johns Hopkins seems to have almost no brand name recognition whatsoever. People seem to think only of the hospital and have no idea that the school is highly ranked. (Frankly, this was me before DC started the college search) It's consistently top 10-15 (ranked above Ivys, Georgetown, etc.)! It seems like even if people had their criticisms, the ranking alone would be enough to generate more discussion, for there to be some sort of buzz and word-of-mouth reputation. It's puzzling.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's not mentioned much because so few applicants actually get accepted

+1

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Anonymous wrote:16:03 It's a fact. A student accept to Harvard or Stanford considers Cambridge versus Baltimore or Palo Alto versus Baltimore.

No, it's not a "fact," although you may wish it so. In real life, where would-be med students fall all over themselves to attend an institution as prestigious as Hopkins, there's little "selling" involved. In real life, where would-be residents fall all over themselves to work at a hospital like Hopkins, the only sales pitch is "It's Hopkins." I repeat: you clearly don't know any physicians, or at least any that got into top schools/ residency programs.

And no, I didn't attend Hopkins so I have absolutely no dog in this fight.

Different PP (agreeing with you). I *DID* go to Hopkins as an undergrad and I worked at the hospital for 5 years before moving south to the DC metro area. I have seen and heard of people who have driven themselves very, very hard to get into the medical program at JHU. From several friends in the medical field, they have known many colleagues who sacrificed a lot to get into that program. Hopkins has several post graduate fields which are among the most difficult programs to get into. Hopkins doesn't have to sell Baltimore. There are many, many, many students out there who don't care what the area around the university is like if they can get into these most prestigious programs. The medical program is one where there are literally hundreds of applications for every position. Nationally post graduate medical programs have about a 43% acceptance rate (43% of those offered spots, take them). Hopkins has about a 68% acceptance rate. Hopkins accepts approximately 4% of the annual applicant pool. This hardly sounds like a school that needs to "sell" it's programs. It is arguably the very best medical program in the nation. It also has the top ranked biomedical engineering program in the nation. There are several other disciplines where this is the program to get into, if you can.

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Anonymous wrote:The neighborhood is really bad, and Baltimore doesn't have much to offer and college student.

Written by someone who's never been to Hopkins, or Baltimore for that matter. Yes, Baltimore has some very rough parts, but so does DC. Hopkins is an urban school, like GW and UPenn. If it were in Boston, it would get written about a lot. But Baltimore is close to DC, and the city does not appeal to kids who live in DC. The city itself does not have a good reputation, nor should it. Hopkins on the other hand, is a great school, and the main campus is in a fairly decent urban area, certainly not a "bad" one. No worse than Morningside Heights, and you never hear this complaint about Columbia!

Written by someone who keeps resurrecting a dead horse...

Anonymous wrote:16:03 It's a fact. A student accept to Harvard or Stanford considers Cambridge versus Baltimore or Palo Alto versus Baltimore.

No, it's not a "fact," although you may wish it so. In real life, where would-be med students fall all over themselves to attend an institution as prestigious as Hopkins, there's little "selling" involved. In real life, where would-be residents fall all over themselves to work at a hospital like Hopkins, the only sales pitch is "It's Hopkins." I repeat: you clearly don't know any physicians, or at least any that got into top schools/ residency programs.

And no, I didn't attend Hopkins so I have absolutely no dog in this fight.

Anonymous wrote:The neighborhood is really bad, and Baltimore doesn't have much to offer and college student.

Written by someone who's never been to Hopkins, or Baltimore for that matter. Yes, Baltimore has some very rough parts, but so does DC. Hopkins is an urban school, like GW and UPenn. If it were in Boston, it would get written about a lot. But Baltimore is close to DC, and the city does not appeal to kids who live in DC. The city itself does not have a good reputation, nor should it. Hopkins on the other hand, is a great school, and the main campus is in a fairly decent urban area, certainly not a "bad" one. No worse than Morningside Heights, and you never hear this complaint about Columbia!