<p>Daughter is a rising senior. She likes psychology especially and perhaps sociology. Also likes physics. She takes math and science but isn't passionate about either. We are in Maryland. </p>
<p>It occurred to me that perhaps we had overlooked a good school that is right in our back yard: Johns Hopkins. Trouble is, I can't seem to get beyond the stereotype that it is mostly for scientists and pre-meds. I worry that their arts department might be not so hot.</p>
<p>What do you think? How does Johns Hopkins fare in liberal arts? How would it compare to some of the better known LACs? In poking around their web site, it did seem that Hopkins perhaps doesn't offer quite as many liberal arts majors as a LAC, but then again, how many liberal arts major options does any one kid need?</p>
<p>Check out this thread.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/533557-hopkins-non-science-person.html?highlight=art+history[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/johns-hopkins-university/533557-hopkins-non-science-person.html?highlight=art+history</a></p>
<p>It highlights many of the problems that you have just brought up.</p>
<p>Contrary to the sterotype, Gilman hall houses a tremendous amount of humanities programs that are ranked highly among the top ten in the nation. I would say that many ppl don’t know that Hopkins humanities rivals its own hardscience programs in areas English, French, Spanish, Italian, East Asian, Classics, languages, Art History, Creative writing, economics, European and Near and Middle Eastern studies, History, international relations, egyptology, ancient history, assirology. </p>
<p>Humanities are very strong here at Hopkins.</p>
<p>EDIT: I wouldn’t be worried about the amount of coures offerings. Seriously, once you get on campus and once you explore the classes, there are so many majors available, its just ridiculous the type of stuff that they offer. I’m sure you will be able to find something you like. Though if you are looking for more obscure offerings, I’m not sure if JHU is right for you. We do offer most of the general offerings that you’d fine throughout most colleges and universities in the nation.</p>
<p>Give it a try, give it some more consideration, if it does fit, then apply. I’m sure others can recommend more colleges for you as well.</p>
<p>H graduated from Hopkins in 1975 and majored in Humanities. Even back then JHU had some amazing faculty and courses in non-science subjects, and they’ve greatly increased those offerings since then. One of our D’s close friends is a rising junior at JHU, majoring in Creative Writing, and is very happy there. Your D should definitely take a look at the school.</p>
<p>Curious, is it easier to get in to JHU with a english/humanities major than as premed? or is it the same?</p>
<p>I know it is for other science-y schools like Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>50% of JHU is humanities so its not like other tech heavy schools that would like to see diversity in their programs that they would actually give advantage to those that are not engineers or science types. To answer your question, you don’t decide a major until your sophmore year (or atleast the end of your freshman year) so they don’t expect you to be definite premed or english humanities major when you enter, there is no way to guarantee you won’t change so for admissions purposes, at JHU atleast, your initial major doesn’t count unless our planning to become an engineer, you apply to a separate school all together :)</p>
<p>Wow, I had no idea that JHU was 50% humanities…</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer, Phead128.</p>