<p>Just wondering. Is it comparable to Duke, Princeton, Brown, Yale, etc.?</p>
<p>I know its medical school is like number 2 in the nation or something. :o It’s pretty well known, but the campus, I heard, is super competitive.</p>
<p>Yes.
Many would consider it a top university in the nation (top 15-20, usually) and it is highly regarded especially among med students.
I have heard that that campus can either be competitive or completely laid back, I’d say it more-or-less depends on the field you a majoring in (eg. premed would probably be more competitive than history).</p>
<p>Overall, it is considered a very good school, and I’m fairly certain it ranks up in the top 20 (correct me if I’m wrong). However, when it comes to it’s Medical Program, it’s one of the top, if not the best (usually tied with Harvard’s Med Program), so you’ll find the pre-med students there to be extremely competitive.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is as popularly known by the American public as Duke or any of the Ivies, but those in the know find it prestigious and think highly of the university.</p>
<p>It’s a very, very well-known university, and it is prestigious, though not as prestigious as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. </p>
<p>But, no schools on the undergraduate level are as prestigious as HYP, (besides MIT and Stanford, perhaps) so, you don’t have to worry.</p>
<p>You’re in luck if you’re hoping to woo both Joe the Plumber and Cynthia the Socialite.</p>
<p>This is a very competitive school - not only to get into, but also to stay there and among students. Very well-known (especially sciences), great lax team.</p>
<p>yes and yes</p>
<p>Yep! 
Looks like everyone agrees.</p>
<p>Of course!!! :)</p>
<p>For undergrad… ehh Great, but not exceptional.</p>
<p>For med program = top Ivy’s caliber if not better.</p>
<p>Does it matter?</p>
<p>^That’s definitely the more important question. But to answer the OP, yes, it’s a prestigious school. No, it’s not up to the prestige of HYPSM, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Amherst, Williams, etc (of course, this prestige may vary by region) but it’s right around there. Prestige, though, has little bearing on academic excellence.</p>
<p>My mother’s from the DC area and some of her friends’ children went there, so when I was little, from the way it was talked about, I thought it was the best school in the world. But it is really good, usually ranked in the top 25 or so, and the med school is really top. A girl I know there says the pre-meds there are all so pushy that they’re annoying to have in her classes though, but that’s just one person’s opinion.</p>
<p>Prestige and academic caliber are quite different. Many people have probably not heard of Williams, Amherst, or Swarthmore, yet of course they are incredible schools. If you look at the US News Peer Review Score (what others think of the school), Hopkins typically scores a 4.6, which is the same as Columbia and Duke (and I think above Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth).</p>
<p>Is Duke really that prestigious or is Duke simply well-known (primarily due to their basketball team)?</p>
<p>I never really considered Duke to be in the same league as the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Chicago, or JHU.</p>
<p>Duke is most definitely of the same caliber. Although not as good as HYPMS, it is on the same tier as the lower Ivies, JHU, Chicago, Northwestern, Rice and the like</p>
<p>I would compare it to Georgetown, Duke, Cornell, UChicago, etc. In fact, I find it very similar to UChicago (I’m from Chicago, and I attend JHU)</p>
<p>it’s even well-known in the international range!</p>
<p>How about Johns Hopkins compared to Emory (undergrad)? Everyone throws in the top 20 schools but leaves Emory out for some reason…</p>