<p>Current Scoreboard:
HSR: MIT +10
BLC: Stanford +4, Rice +3
MD: Cornell +3</p>
<p>For the last category, many submitted more than one, so I cannot adequately ascertain the additional ranking.</p>
<p>Can we all just agree that Stanford and Rice have the most beautiful campuses and that MIT has the highest suicide rate?</p>
<p>Agreed. Now does that mean that this thread is destined for the garbage now that youv'e tallied the score or do any other people have some honorable mentions?</p>
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<p>Notice how it states "current" and not "final."</p>
<p>I dunno, it's all subjective. I'll never agree that Rice or Stanford exceed a lot of other schools in terms of beauty. Rice, a school quite a few people have been admitted to on this board, is definitely receiving biased reviews. Stanford is much the same way. Rice is nice, if too modern, and Stanford has a certain charm. But have you been to Swarthmore, a school that is classified as an arboretum? The University of the South has one o the most beautiful campuses I've ever seen. Pepperdine overlooks the ocean and is set against a gorgeous mountainside. If you're limiting yourself to only top universities, that's one thing. But I simply think there are much more aesthetically pleasing campuses.</p>
<p>environman, have you visited Rice or Stanford?</p>
<p>Both. They are nice, don't get me wrong. I still think they pale in comparison to the other schools I mentioned.</p>
<p>This thread is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I think pepperdine topped P-review's ratings</p>
<p>WHOA Illmatic, chill with the Baltimore comments! Yes, two Hopkins studentes were murdered last year...but..is it really necessary to call this city the FILTH capital of the US? Um, I think that's a bit of a generalization, and a highly innacurrate one. This city, yes, it does have it's fair share of problems, but you make it seem as though it's hell on earth which it is indeed far from...</p>
<p>Baltimore is terrible. I was accepted to JHU but Baltimore was a huge reason I chose a different school.</p>
<p>It's not that bad..goodness!</p>
<p>You can't deny its way high crime rate. nearly double that of philadelphia!</p>
<p>the baltimore literacy rate is something around 60%</p>
<p>ummmmmm......unless you've ever lived/regularly visited baltimore...i doubt you have any right to go against the word of those who live there.</p>
<p>Furthermore...JHU is a wonderful school, and it is a safe campus.</p>
<p>Ok, yes, Baltimore does have a high poverty rate, and it's growing. The literacy rate for the inner city is only 62%. People are murdered, raped and robbed. There are drugs, guns, gangs and stupid Carmello Anthony. We have the 3rd fastest growing HIV rate in the country. But Guess what, you all with your numbers and facts aren't telling us anything we don't already know! Really..IS it truly necessary to label this a place of FILTH? What's next..Detriot? The Bronx? The fact is that Baltimore was once one of the most industrialized cities in the nation. This place provided a land of oppritunity, for many. As the years went on, with the bankruptcy of Bethlehem Steel, one ot the worlds top Steel providers, the closing of the GM plant, the cut backs at Domino Sugar and countless others, the city is now faced with an astronomically high unemployment rate resulting in an even faster growing crime rate. Schools are closed every year, taking away more and more oppritunites for children to learn and get off the streets, and taking jobs away from teachers, who can no longer afford to leave the city..
Johns Hopkins is still a stellar school, and The hospital is still number one in the country, attracting some of the biggest names in Medicine today. Univ of Md school of nursing and pharmacy (they're in the city, not college park) are top ten programs.
So go ahead. Label. Ridicule. Keep on reading your stastics. Cast judgements if you must, but, realize you're not doing anything productive by doing so and well..we don't care about you anyway. If you don't like, then don't come. :)
End of discussion.</p>
<p>Well I don't agree with "filth" but I do think it's probably one of the worst cities in the US. I've grew up in Philly and have been to Baltimore more than a few times. I've been to JHU's campus quite a few times. The campus is nice. But the city was a real turnoff...that's all I'm saying. I feel safer on Penn's campus! That's saying something...</p>
<p>i went to JHU. The campus is beautiful. About one block away is a very dangerous area. </p>
<p>End of story.</p>
<p>that doesn't explain JHU's high suicide rate though</p>
<p>It's fairly natural. The campus is in an uninteresting, shoddy neighborhood. The student body is dry, over-competitive, and essentially hermetically sealed in the area creating an atmosphere with less touch to the outside world than say an Berkeley or a Bard; not to mention sort of 'type' recruited student body thrives more so on strict academia (compared, again, to a Bard or a Berkeley) and it can be therefore said is, in my opinion, less inclinced per popula towards culture than most high level institutions. This creates a lot of delusional kids with nothing on the brain but biology and symbolic pieces of paper. This is my take.</p>