Hopkins Cut Throat?

Jsteez
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:30:34 +0000

First and foremost one must not confuse ‘cut-throatedness’ with classes being difficult and not everyone receiving an A grade. Hopkins gets this reputation because many students enter premed and like ALMOST EVERY OTHER COLLEGE classes are graded on a curve in which only a certain percentage of students can get an A, leading to quite a large proportion of very driven students getting upset by anything less than a B+ or sometimes even an A -(which is quite ridiculous IMO lol). Furthermore, since the huge premed culture blows everything out of proportion you’ll hear some people catastrophize their futures over one test score and seek to comfort themselves by blaming others, as a result creating the ‘cut-throat’ myth.

From what I’ve experienced here and in the BME department, which always gets rep as the most cut-throat for some silly reason, that it is definitely quite the opposite! In virtually every BME class I’ve taken the professors encourage collaboration and basically every student has a group study network to work through problem sets or study for exams with, creating a community-environment like another poster above has stated. Additionally, BME classes are curved pretty well so I feel like it is actually one of the most happy departments unlike some other departments where classes are curved to the top 2 or 4%.

Feel free to PM any questions. Best of luck! :)>-