Duke or Johns Hopkins?

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<p>I highly suggest visiting. Naturally if you post on the Duke side of a message board, things are going to appear more Duke favored. </p>

<p>I think you should strongly consider Duke and Hopkins again as they are clearly attracting the best students overall of the schools you are looking at. </p>

<p>Let me share some advantages and disadvantages of each school for you to consider.
I won’t mention much about prestige because it’s moot. Really, it is.</p>

<p>Duke’s Advantages:</p>

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<li> Lively engaged student body</li>
<li> Basketball</li>
<li> Great facilities</li>
</ol>

<p>Duke’s Disadvantages:

  1. It is a very Greek-centered campus life experience
  2. The freshman campus is segregated from the overall campus which is somewhat of a pain.
  3. While Duke does attract students from across the country, international students find it hard to get to and from and tend to stick to more urban locations.</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins Advantages:

  1. Incredible faculty at a very small university [4,800 students] which means you get a lot of attention. For those students who are interested in the social sciences and humanities, you definitely get full attention at JHU. Not a pre-med? A+ faculty attention.
  2. Very strong focus on undergraduate independent research and study, scholarship at a high level.
  3. Living in a city - great resources, access to internships and easy to interview for everything from DC to Boston. It’s affordable to ride the train. Nightlife, major concerts, NFL and MLB games (Orioles, Ravens).<br>
  4. Hopkins Lacrosse brings a lot of school pride.</p>

<p>Hopkins Disadvantages

  1. Students work hard and are very committed to their education, scholarship compared to most places. It’s demanding.
  2. Northeastern weather
  3. Liberal Arts curriculum (if you like being told what to do and how to do it) then Hopkins may offer you too much freedom with class selection.</p>

<p>Students at Hopkins are very happy as they are at Duke. I would strongly suggest reaching beyond the realm of the college message boards and </p>

<p>VISIT, VISIT BOTH.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>