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This is getting off topic, but that’s not really a useful number. What’s more important is the percentage of students on the pre-med track. Nearly 50% of freshmen at my own college came in as pre-med, for example, which created a rather different atmosphere than one might find at, say, Vassar.</p>
<p>As I posted in another thread, only 12% of Hopkins undergraduates major in the humanities (63% in science/engineering, 25% in social sciences). This leads to a much different feel than that of Hampshire, where 60% of undergraduates major in the humanities/arts.</p>
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Among people who are familiar with Hopkins, it is neither underrated or overrated. It’s considered a top 15 or so university, which is what it is.</p>
<p>Among the hoi polloi, Hopkins is seriously lacking in name recognition compared to universities like Yale or MIT. In that sense, it could be considered very underrated.</p>