Just for the record, JHU definitely has to compete with schools like Columbia, Penn and Brown for cross admits and JHU usually loses…
Not saying parchment is perfect but i am saying that 87% of cross admits among the thousands of parchment users chose Penn over JHU, 69% chose Columbia over JHU, and 91% chose Brown over JHU.
so yeah, JHU is using money to lure students away from the ivies-- but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not a good school worthy of consideration. Every school leverages its assets to attract students-- no shame in JHU using money to recruit talented students just because the Ivies can’t offer merit-scholarships due to the Ivy League Agreement.