@DaVinci92 Any university, especially one like JHU, will have competitive students. After all, we all want good grades so that we can progress to better things in our futures. At Hopkins, it’s definitely competitive, but I would say it’s a constructive kind of competition. Contrary to popular belief, students don’t sabotage each other. Instead, we band together to finish homework and study for tests. Additionally, I know plenty of Writing Seminars Majors that fit in very well here.
@Greekfire The thing about double majoring, especially for engineers, is that people usually pick two majors that have electives and classes in common. With writing seminars and CS, completing a double major would be very hard and would probably take more than 4 years. My friend wanted to switch to MechE/Writing Sems, but was told he should abandon the prospect, mainly because it would take at least 6 years with summer classes.