<p>Where would you say I could get the best science education with great professors and students and not a cutthroat environment where everyone is friendly and willing to help each other</p>
<p>Others who know more will weigh in, I’m sure. However, when son was visiting Wash U (aka WUSTL) a couple of years ago, several current students went on about how they loved Wash U mostly because it was such a non-cutthroat environment–students always willing to help each other, a lot of student to student tutoring, etc. Whether or not this is true for pre-med science courses, I can’t really say. Son chose a different school.</p>
<p>johns hopkins is the best for premed out of the three but it is cutthroat, if you can handle it dont give up the opportunity</p>
<p>Hopkins is not cutthroat----it is challenging. There’s a difference. I never could understand the motivation for going to a less challenging environment. If you were an athlete, would you want to play for a school where they take the sport less seriously, where it was easier?</p>
<p>Hopkins. 10 char</p>
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<p>After visiting two of the three schools above, my S1 picked WUSTL hands down for the more personal, friendly vibe. </p>
<p>For pure academics, JHU is hard to beat and NW probably has better non-pre-med sciences than WUSTL (that Integrated Science Program at NW is very interesting). But for strong sciences and laid-back, friendly vibe, I say the winner is WUSTL.</p>
<p>My experience at Hopkins has been that people are truly very down-to-earth and humble. I met one of the biggest goofballs here who was also a Woodrow Wilson Scholar (though he was shy to admit it when others mentioned it).
The Hopkins cutthroat rumors are a myth, and it is no more cutthroat an environment than Northwestern or WUSTL really. The only difference is that Johns Hopkins is probably more rigorous in academics than either NW or WUSTL, but that also serves as a bonding point for students as they work together to finish difficult problem sets and study for tests in the library and in the dorms.
Student life at Hopkins has vastly improved, even in the past 2 years, and I’m going to venture out and say that next year’s undergraduate life should be even more significantly better than this year’s.</p>