Deciding between Johns Hopkins, USC, and Michigan Ann-Arbor

College Search & Selection
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OP, you shouldn’t give too much weight to an internet poster’s friend’s brother’s third hand account of any school’s environment. In every school, you’ll find social butterflies, party pals, balanced bros, bookworms, athletes and homebodies. You’ll gravitate towards your tribe but if party and sports are a huge factor then USC & UM should be a better environment than JHU.

As far as diversity goes. It depends upon what kind of diversity are you looking for. Here are racial demographics for all 3. Another post about JHU being Asian is wrong, it’s most diverse among three.

 Whites Asians  Hispanics Blacks International

JHU 37 24 13 6 11
USC 40 21 14 4 14
UM 61 14 5 4 7

Academics and research should be strongest at JHU but other two are no slackers. Prestige wise JHU is usually taken more seriously.

If money isn’t a big issue, go to JHU. If it is then go to USC. All good schools, you can’t go wrong.

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for undergrad engineering and even grad in a lot of cases, Hopkins > USC. This coming from a Hopkins alum who lives in Cali. BME is not even close.

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@Riversider. . . here’s a snippet from your post #20:

I’d like to see colleges list the countries and their percentages for its International cohort.

USC for instance lists: China, India, Canada, UK, South Korea. The question is, how large is its contingent from China?

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For Hopkins, it’s China, Canada, South Korea, India for the most recent freshman class:

https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/08/22/class-of-2022-infographic/

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China, South Korea, India and Canada will invariably be the four most represented countries at most universities, which China usually taking the lion’s share.

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From original post: Will going to lower-ranked USC “make a big difference” for grad school or getting a job?

No, it won’t.