<p>Law schools also take into account your undergraduate institution. Try to view your college education as a hollistic experience and not just the means to the end. </p>
<p>If you want a 4.0 and a 4.0 ONLY then Hopkins probably isn’t the place for you because odds are you’re not going to get it. </p>
<p>What you will get is a strong community, great undergraduate teachers and world-class students in the classroom with you. Your grades are a part of your undergraduate experience but not the ONLY thing. Try to look at your college experience as more holistic. The law/med placement from Hopkins is incredible and second to none so don’t stress over it.</p>
<p>Odds are you’ll have stronger LSAT/MCAT scores too as those averages are quite high at Hopkins.</p>
<p>@ original poster</p>
<p>I am also deciding between JHU and bucknell and feel the same way. I am curious about your final decision.</p>
<p>Bucknell and JHU are complete opposites in their campus communities and cultures. In my opinion, Hopkins is largely international, diverse and attracts students from all corners of the globe.</p>
<p>Bucknell, frankly, is fine for a school in the northest but nobody has heard of it outside of the northeast and it’s largely upper-middle class white students from DC to Boston. Also Bucknell’s location is quite isolated as a school and I think may have a Walmart nearby, and that’s it.</p>
<p>@ qmccarthy12</p>
<p>I am visiting Bucknell this weekend for admitted students day and the Presidential Fellows program and then will make my decision. The biggest factor in my decision is that I’ve heard that Bucknell has a better sense of community, and you can really get to know you professors a lot better than at a large graduate student-focused institution such as Hopkins. Also, on the whole, the student body is more attractive at Bucknell 
However, I do like the location of Hopkins better. Both have great engineering departments, which is making things tough, but obviously Hopkins has better research opportunities and is significantly more prestigious globally. This will be a diffucult decision…</p>
<p>If you’re a person that loves learning in a globally and ethnically diverse environment, Hopkins would be the strong winner here and I think this is one of the strongest arguments in favor of attending a school like Hopkins which has a national and international draw:</p>
<p>**Bucknell First-year Students by Ethnicity **
Black - 23
Asian - 53
Hispanic - 33
White - 782 (81%)</p>
<p>**Hopkins First year students by Ethnicity **
Black - 91
Asian - 310
Hispanic - 72
White- 640 (53%)</p>
<p><a href=“Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University”>Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University;
<a href=“http://www.bucknell.edu/documents/InstitutionalResearch/CDS2008_2009B.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bucknell.edu/documents/InstitutionalResearch/CDS2008_2009B.pdf</a></p>
<p>I sat in on a couple of classes and went to a departmental presentation at the Hopkins Open House. There was definitely a sense of community and the students seemed to know the professors pretty well (and vice versa).</p>
<p>@ qmccarthy12</p>
<p>I have decided to attend Johns Hopkins. They recently offered me more grant money (after meeting with the financial aid officer) and I just think it would be a better fit for me.</p>
<p>Have you decided yet?</p>
<p>congrats on your decision</p>
<p>congrats! You will look back on this decision ten years from now and be happy that you made that choice.</p>
<p>im a hopkins student, rising as a sophomore in the fall, and the grading at hopkins is intense for science based majors. Usually classes will be curved as a B- or B average. basically, most of us hard science majors have to take a class or two in departments that offer classes that arent so hard to buffer our GPAs. If you do that you hopefully will be able to keep your gpa in the 3.0-4.0 range</p>
<p>ugh that’s kinda scary hahaha
kinda makes me nervous but I can do it! :D</p>