<p>The people at SOHOP made it seem like a large population at Johns Hopkins drink/ get drunk, along with partying (craziness, sex, etc) every weekend. Is this true, and is it possible to stay away from it? Johns Hopkins seems like a great, intellectual university, but I enjoy nice, clean fun and will stay away from those party environments throughout college.</p>
<p>I never went to a single frat party at my time at JHU and had a great group of friends. Yes lots of people overdue work and then to maintain sanity go on debauchery binges but thats in any university. The stuff I’ve heard that comes out of MIT could shame Arizona State. So in summation, its not a large group, its the greeks and people that don’t know how to balance study and life so overdue it on both.</p>
<p>aawww darn, I’m sorry only that side of JHU was revealed to you while you attended SOHOP. Often, hosts do try to impress and maybe they thought you were the type of guy who was into that type of stuff.
I go to Hop now and I agree with BlueJayBJ (hmmm lol)–not everyone at Hopkins parties all the time. I have been in the library on Saturday/Friday nights a couple of times and there are always people there at all hours of the night.
Yes you will run into drunk people stammering around campus while you make your way to the library at 11:00pm on Saturdays lol but no one looks at you like you’re a loser if you study. Some people do have “study hard, party hard” mentality and it does bother me…I like to just have balance. Moderation lol.
but if you really do want to stay completely away from all partying/alcohol/etc, Hopkins has Rogers House–a dorm that promotes healthy living. I am not sure if freshman are allowed to live there but it is a housing option for sophomore year.<br>
But long story short, you will def find people here who prefer to stay away from the Hopkins party scene.</p>
<p>Haha BJ as in Bei Jing (dirty mind xD), but goodness is right. There are plenty of things to do without partying. I think SOHOP tries to hard to get rid of the cold academic image that JHU used to have a tad too far.</p>
<p>NEED A CONCLUSION TO THESE RUMORS,too many contradictions around the web…</p>
<p>-Is JHU a party school ? answers: SOHOP=totally, internet: kind of/not at all, and then there’s the median position obviously…</p>
<p>what is the answer? are there parties every weekend, are there never, are there sometimes?</p>
<p>I think the biggest problem with this discussion is that no one’s tried to define what exactly people mean when they ask if Hopkins is a “party school”. To me, a party school is a school where people do nothing but party, the only way to have fun on the weekends is to party, academics are generally considered a joke, and the degrees gained from these institutions aren’t given much weight. If this is your definition of a party school, Hopkins is not a party school by any stretch of the imagination. We’re academically rigorous, well-known as a research/intellectual school, and people do way more than go to frats on the weekend. My friends and I have been to two frat parties our first year here, both times because it was combined with a cast party for a friend’s acting troupe. Most weekends we’re hanging out with friends in our extracurriculars (like the aforementioned theatre friend), hopping on a train to spend a weekend in D.C./NYC, or getting together for a movie night. Yes, there are people that party, and there are multiple parties every weekend, but this is true at every single college you will ever attend. BlueJayBJ makes a good point about parties at MIT being worse than parties at ASU, and knowing a lot of friends at top schools I can safely say that if you want to attend an institution with no parties that is just not going to happen. If you consider Hopkins a “party school” because parties exist on campus, you’re throwing a lot of schools in this category because practically every university will have parties occurring there. However, at Hopkins no one’s going to force you to go to these parties. Only 25% of Hopkins students are members of Greek life, which leaves 75% of the school not having to go to these parties if they don’t want to. Like much of Hopkins, parties are as important as you want them to be- you can go to three parties a weekend and be completely hungover for class on Monday, you can go to a party on Friday night to relax after a week of school, or you can go to no parties at all and still find plenty of friends to do things with. I don’t party and I don’t drink, but that doesn’t mean my social life here is terrible. Far from it. You’ll find a group to hang with on the weekends, trust me.</p>
<p>I find it very hard to believe that Hopkins is now viewed as a “party school.” Things change, I know, but the idea that Hopkins has become a party school is as crazy as the idea that Hopkins places more emphasis on law than medicine (by the way, there is no law school if you did not know that). There are PLENTY of individuals at Hopkins who not only don’t drink but also don’t have enzymatic capacities to metabolize alcohol…</p>
<p>plenty huh? care to cite statistics or is this another story you’re pulling out of your ass?</p>
<p>Boy, medman seems really familiar:</p>
<p><a href=“BME: Duke vs. UPenn vs. JHU - Duke University - College Confidential Forums”>BME: Duke vs. UPenn vs. JHU - Duke University - College Confidential Forums;
<p>^Don’t know what you are referring to. Hopkins BME is clearly the best in the country, and the world. Sorry you don’t agree. Additionally, the “plenty” comment comes from the fact that anywhere between 20-25% of the undergraduate population at Hopkins is Asian (see link) and there is a well-known and well-established medical phenomenon known as “alcohol flush reaction” which is the result of an incapacity to completely metabolize alcohol/its metabolites; this condition is well documented in the Asian population (see link as well).</p>
<p><a href=“http://jhu.intelliresponse.com/index.jsp[/url]”>http://jhu.intelliresponse.com/index.jsp</a></p>
<p>Campus Profile
There are almost 5,000 undergraduate students enrolled at Hopkins. 53% are male and 47% are female.</p>
<p>Here is the breakdown of the major ethnic groups among Hopkins undergraduates:</p>
<p>White/non-Hispanic: 47%
Asian/Pacific Islander: 23%
Hispanic: 7%
Black/non-Hispanic: 6%
American Indian/Alaska Native: 1%
Unknown: 9%
International: 7%</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction</a></p>
<p>^you clearly have reading comprehension issues as I was referring to your plenty of people don’t drink comment. Please show me a study that states asians don’t drink. You also made the boneheaded mistake of lumping in “east-asians” (chinese, japanese, koreans) with south-east asians (pakis, indians) with their asian student body breakdown. You’re going to claim they don’t drink as well?</p>
<p>You should should show evidence that a) you even go to Hopkins med and b) you even had the intelligence to attend duke. because all your illogical posts have indicated the contrary.</p>
<p>^I should have known that you would have difficulty with making associations and extrapolating data. I don’t know how providing you evidence of my having attended Duke, transferred to Georgetown, and enrolled in Hopkins med will enhance the validity of my discussion or endow you with the ability to comprehend, but if it will, I am happy to provide you with the some evidence (would my profile on the Hopkins website do?)–just PM me.</p>
<p>Way to show off your reading comprehension skills yet again. Another question avoided!</p>
<p>It’s easy to prove you were actually at both schools. Post a screenshot of your school e-mail interfaces with a subject line “I’m not a ■■■■■” in your in-box after e-mailing yourself. Or show redacted acceptance letters from both schools.</p>
<p>When I asked my son if he ever went to frat parties, his answer was “why would I want to go and watch a bunch of people get drunk?”</p>
<p>Son does not drink and seems to be perfectly happy with his social life.</p>
<p>Full disclosure: it does not take much to make him happy.</p>
<p>nice snobbyness, why even bother fighting about such a discussion…lol</p>
<p>anyhow I guess Hopkins does have parties, they are an option even though there are other activities. oh and by the way I call bs on the non-metabolyzing alcohol for asians…if that was even what the poster was trying to say…</p>
<p>seriously, if you want a school where there is little alcohol,go to Calvin College in Michigan</p>
<p>You’ll find alcohol everywhere in every city (except dry cities) and in probably 99% of schools.</p>
<p>Hopkins is NOT a ‘party’ school. </p>
<p>Though if you want to attend a party, you’ll find one every week. </p>
<p>Having a choice is better than NOT having a choice.</p>
<p>the answer to this conundrum:</p>
<p>there are parties every weekend. i know, because i went to most of them.
but the whole school does not party every weekend. there are many people who do other things. want parties? we got 'em. don’t? we have people who hate parties too. you will make friends with common interests and ahve ag reat time no matter which type you are.</p>
<p>I never thought I would see the day JHU was viewed even remotely as a party school.</p>
<p>Hopkins is not a party school. Master Margarita has the best answer to OP’s question.</p>
<p>Want parties? Great! there are several you can go to!
Don’t want parties? Awesome! there are tons of students just like you who still have fun.</p>
<p>I do recommend going to a party at some point though even if you don’t drink. Many frats will have smaller parties where all they do is eat, drink, and talk. Even if you don’t drink, you might enjoy meeting people since everyone at Hopkins has an interesting talent or backstory.</p>
<p>Freshman do in fact have a substance free house in AMR’s and the people I know who live there really enjoy it. They apparently have movie nights and game nights on the weekend. </p>
<p>However, whether or not you’re a partier, JHU challenges you to work hard in your classes. You’ll have tons of opportunities for research and you’ll learn tons.</p>
<p>Is this question a joke? JHU arguably the best undergraduate biomedical program for high school seniors who are intense about academics inside and outside of school, it seems like party’s shouldn’t and don’t exist in that area of Baltimore…</p>
<p>There is definitely the “Hopkins 500” that party every weekend (many of which have weekends that start on Wednesday), but the vast majority of the undergraduates do not go out. It is easy to be extremely into partying as well as casual partying as well as not partying at all. There is a spot for everyone on this campus.</p>