<p>Hopkins also has an excellent classics program.</p>
<p>Thanks Hope2getrice. I did spend some time on their website today - not sure it’s the best match for my daughter but it definitely is worth pursuing further.</p>
<p>Hopkins also has one of the top International Relations programs in the nation. Hopkins really is an amazing school.</p>
<p>AMTC, just to be sure, I hope you are not daunted by the size of Hopkins. It looks like it would be a large school ala Harvard, UCBerkeley, etc, but it actually is not.
The main campus, Homewood, is home to about 6000 students. 4400-4600 of these are undergrads, meaning Hopkins maintains a number of undergrads similar to an LAC/small research university like Brown. In fact, I believe each undergrad class is smaller than Brown, and thus affords the campus a lot of intimacy.
The other 1000+ are grad students and the other students are mostly post-grads who are on one of JHU’s MANY campuses like East Baltimore, Peabody, SAIS (DC, Italy, China), Singapore, etc.</p>
<p>Being a part of Hopkins really has its benefits. a very very large proportion of undergrads undertake research of various forms. hopkins provides free shuttles to all of its other baltimore campuses like the med school, peabody conservatory of music, etc. And there is another free shuttle to inner harbor, MICA, Towson Mall, etc.
DC is a $7 train ride away and the train station is a few blocks from campus.
The campus is very pristine and park-like and has been considered the safest college campus in America. ( in terms of best campus security)</p>
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Johns Hopkins does indeed have a fantastic writing program. One thing to consider, however, is the environment of the school. </p>
<p>A mere 12% of Hopkins undergraduates major in the humanities (63% in science/engineering, 25% in social sciences). This leads to a much different and perhaps less preferable atmosphere than Hampshire, where 60% of undergraduates major in the humanities/arts.</p>
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Yes, they’re somewhat similar in class sizes, with Brown having slightly more courses with fewer than 20 students (71%) than Hopkins (65%).</p>
<p>2-9: 32% B, 26% JH
10-19: 39% B, 39% JH
20-29: 12% B, 13% JH
30-39: 5% B, 7% JH
40-49: 3% B, 4% JH
50-99: 5% B, 6% JH
100+: 4% B, 5% JH</p>
<p>^^ I don’t think that 12% number is true because I actually go to school there and have seen the actual students…</p>
<p>by FAR, the actual largest major at Hopkins is International Relations. Period.
And even if there ARE less people majoring in the humanities, that just means smaller classes in those departments 
than at other schools where a lot of kids are majoring in the same things :)</p>
<p>and for class size, i was talking about CLASS SIZE, not less than 20 students or whatever. As in, Hopkins has 1,200 or so undergrads per year-level while Brown may have 1300-1500.</p>
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I got the numbers directly from the registrar’s website at Hopkins, so I would assume they’re correct. :p</p>
<p>The largest major at JHU is actually BME, but you are correct that IR is second. Chem E, Public Health, and Neuroscience round out the top 5.</p>
<p>Hope2getrice - it’s not the size of the school that’s a mismatch but my daughter is dyslexic and while her grades are within the ballpark for JHU I don’t think her SAT/ACT will be high enough. She’s not classified so she doesn’t get any extra time and given that she’s looking for a writing major I pretty sure the test scores will matter!</p>
<p>As I said, it’s a bit early for these thoughts and I am interested in pursuing this further. Whether she will be or not is still premature. Thanks for all the info though!</p>
<p>She should still go for it, AMTC. 
What’s the harm in trying? I’m sure your daughter has many great qualities to add to JHU!</p>
<p>JHU does have one of the best Creative Writing programs in the country, hands down!! I completely agree with the OP here…</p>
<p>Hopkins has ALOT of top notch programs. Pretty much all fields are quite good. I’m doing Economics and Applied Math. It is challenging (particularly the applied math) but great.</p>
<p>Well DS1 graduates next month so I thought I’d put a finishing touch to this thread. Still no final exams, just some papers to write. I noted 4 years ago: “If I’m lucky he’ll go to grad school or teach.” We all got our wish as he is entering an MFA progam where he will teach and get paid to write the great American novel. His classes have remained small and he is happy with what he does.</p>
<p>What a lovely update. I remember reading this thread a long, long time ago. Congratulations to your son and you on what sounds like the perfect graduate program for him!</p>
<p>Congratulations, roberthid and son. Is he continuing graduate studies at Hopkins?</p>
<p>I wanted to mention that Johns Hopkins also has one of the very best art history departments in the country, which is why my son would have gone there had he not gotten into the U. of Chicago.</p>
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<p>Papers can be far more difficult and require far more work than exams! </p>
<p>Congratulations on his graduation. Hopkins is a great university.</p>