Compared to Johns Hopkins?

NUgraduate
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:08:07 +0000

My eldest daughter and I went to a weekend program at Hopkins. The questions from the floor centered on how Hopkins helped the stressed-out kids, what was the suicide rate, and why couldn’t they guarantee housing for upper classmen. The Hopkins “hook” in their dog-and-pony show centered on the fact that when you graduated from Hopkins, you’d be part of an elite network of other Hopkins grads. Well… what about the four years of undergrad? My/our takeaway was that Hopkins felt it was worthwhile to suffer for four years, because afterwards you’d be able to say so, and commiserate with other sufferers.

In contrast, Wash U. is ranked as high or higher (though I do think not as widely known or respected by the overall populace) and the Wash U. creed is that the students should be happy, helped, boosted to success during their four years on campus.

I do think if you can get into Hopkins Med School you should hop, skip and jump to matriculate. All med students suffer - you might as well suffer at one of the best Med Schools in the world.