<p>I really want to attend Princeton or Harvard or Columbia for Graduate School.
I was recently admitted Early Decision to Johns Hopkins University....but I am having second thoughts..Is this school prestigious enough??
I am interested in International Studies...everyone around me is like "You're smart, why didnt you apply to Princeton?" It bugs me so much! And now I am rethinking whether or not I should break my ED contract with Johns Hopkins...(however I like the school).</p>
<p>First of all, ED is NOT an easy agreement to break, it is a contract and as far as I know, the only way you can break it is if you’re not able to pay even with financial aid, loans, etc. Secondly, it depends on what you want to do, each school has its strong point or its specialty. If you’re looking to go into the medical field for example Johns Hopkins is one of the best, if not the best school out there for that and you can’t go wrong with JHU. There is another area that JHU is strong in but I can’t remember right now. However, based on your username and what you said in your original post, it would seem to me like Princeton is/was your 1st choice. If so, why did you apply ED to JHU then?</p>
<p>So long as you maintain a decent GPA for those graduate schools and just as importantly, make a great impression and get to know your professors well…you shouldn’t have any problems. </p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is viewed quite favorably by Profs involved in grad admissions IME…including the ones at Columbia. </p>
<p>Also, Johns Hopkins does have a great graduate IR program known as SAIS so if you’re interested in IR…you’re at a great place. </p>
<p>In short, enjoy Johns Hopkins. :)</p>
<p>John Hopkins is a fantastic school–I imagine that’s the reason you applied ED. Doing well there will be looked upon favorably by adcoms.</p>
<p>Oh no…ivies will look at JHU like they look at a community college. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>OMG…of course ivies will respect and accept students who graduated from JHU… And, guess what…ivies will accept grads from schools that are much lower ranked than JHU.</p>
<p>Dude… seriously, it’s not which school you go to but what you do at that school.
You can go to some state college and be accepted into Ivy, just work hard during undergrad… ==;;;</p>
<p>mingaling hit the nail right on the head. It’s what you do at the school which matters, not so much the name of the school you went to. You can even go to a community college and still be accepted by Ivy League schools (this is a proven fact). So try to do your best wherever you end up.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is an excellent school, academically on a par with the Ivies, and the students are very similar in ability (I’ve taught at both JHU and Princeton, and attended Cornell). If anything the JHU students were harder-working, since so many of them are majoring in sciences and have a great work ethic. It’s got a strong program in international studies, and its proximity to Washington is an advantage. Students and faculty wash back and forth among all these elite schools so you are at no disadvantage attending JHU.</p>
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This bothers me much more than the silly question you asked about JHU’s prestige. Did you read the ED agreement before you signed it??</p>
<p>It’s amazing that you’re about to be walking onto a university campus in nine months. Sheesh.</p>
<p>I know many a few people who stated that they weren’t satisfied with a school’s financial aid and were able to break their ED contract be/c of that…But I was exaggerating-- I will NOT go out of my way to reject JHU’s offer…it is a great school.</p>
<p>and actually, I am very much interested in international studies–that is why I applied ED. </p>
<p>I am just so sick of people bashing JHU and making me feel dumb >.<</p>
<p>^^ </p>
<p>Ignore the JHU bashing idiots. </p>
<p>Been where you’ve been…except I wasn’t even in the JHU level and I graduated near the bottom of my high school class. 10 years out from high school…the tiny rah rah rah Ivy undergrad crowd at our reunion were regarded as insufferable bores by the rest of us…especially other Ivy college graduates and those who did state/city undergrad and then went to the Ivies for grad/professional school.</p>
<p>1) I’ve hung around elite universities all my adult life, and I’ve never met anyone who bashes Johns Hopkins. There just isn’t a difference in quality between JHU and other elite schools. The differences people talk about are more differences in atmosphere; arguably different schools do have different vibes and attract slightly different kinds of kids. I thought JHU was more academically intense and less “social” than Princeton, because of the large proportion of kids doing premed and the hard sciences. But Princeton is pretty academic too, and there are lots of social opportunities at JHU. So even this difference isn’t very marked. Plus you already said you like JHU, so it sounds like a good fit for you.</p>
<p>2) Remember that people cannot make you “feel dumb” without your consent; if they are ignorant, jealous, or hostile, you need to ignore them. </p>
<p>3) It is very, very common, once you’ve made a decision and everything seems or is final, to imagine suddenly that you’ve made a horrible mistake. It’s called “buyer’s remorse.” It doesn’t mean that you actually HAVE made a horrible mistake; it’s just a natural reaction to being in a stressful situation, and suddenly having the stress lifted. You are still in “anxious mode” and because you don’t have anything, really, to be anxious about you start second-guessing yourself. I think this is what’s really happening to you. Understand that this feeling is normal and will go away in a few days.</p>
<p>Don’t let other people let you down!
JHU is amaziiinnnnng and actually I’m applying RD to Johns Hopkins for International Studies too! They have a really good program undergraduate and especially graduate!
And you’re not dumb either! I mean you got it! Congrats 
Just do amazingly well, go to grad school at JHU or an ivy and show them :D</p>