<p>My d is looking closely at Hopkins ED. My question for those who attend - how good our bad are your off-campus housing options? Are you basically forced to live oc for junior and senior year? How is sorority housing, if you participate?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>We have guaranteed housing our freshman and sophomore years. On-campus housing (and by on-campus, it really just means university owned and university secured) is available to juniors and seniors but few actually go for it. It is cheaper to find comparable off-campus locations that really are no further than the on-campus options.</p>
<p>All of the housing options except for AMRs and Buildings A and B (freshmen housing) are actually away from the grassy quads of the school and are across Charles St or University Parkway. </p>
<p>From what I’ve heard (I’m only a sophomore), there are many many housing options within a block of campus. JHU is, afterall, situated in a rather residential area. Don’t take my word for it - I encourage you to visit [this</a> link](<a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/hds/offcampus/]this”>http://www.jhu.edu/hds/offcampus/) for more information.</p>
<p>Sorority houses are supposedly [illegal</a> in Maryland](<a href=“http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2003/01/30/why-is-phi-mu-the-only-sorority-with-its-own-house-49475/]illegal”>http://www.jhunewsletter.com/2003/01/30/why-is-phi-mu-the-only-sorority-with-its-own-house-49475/) so you won’t find any at JHU.</p>
<p>That is hysterical - thanks for the info.</p>
<p>The “brothel law” is urban myth. There are sorority houses in Maryland. The thing is that there weren’t any sororities at JHU because there were no women undergraduates at JHU until 1970 and, by the time that sororities at Hopkins had sufficient numbers of members to consider a house, houses weren’t financially viable. To meet modern building codes, it requires a substantial investment to build/renovate a sorority house. Where you do see modern sorority houses, they are usually owned by the university (a la Rogers House). But, as a general matter, Hopkins does not own fraternity or sorority houses.</p>