Double Biochem and Lit major, want to go to grad school, and interested in research + city life. Thoughts?
JHU has Baltimore, not sure what Columbia can offer in the way of “city life”.
Columbia is in New York, so that is a pretty good city life as well
I also think you should visit Columbia to see how it feels, as well as figure out different components to each school and which seems to fit you the best. You might look at cost, student life, course requirements, the program you are looking at in comparison to the other, etc.
I also did some research and the best school that seems to me for research and biology departments is Johns Hopkins. Columbia is good in both, but averaging out their scores for your majors JHU seems to be a better academically noted path.