<p>@IPBear - your conclusion does not follow from your premises.</p>
<p>Yes, JHU and UChicago are similar in terms of overall quality - comparable to the “lower Ivies”, Duke, Northwestern, etc. The US News rankings reflect this. As a Hopkins student, where exactly it stands in relation to its peer schools in a given year is of little interest to me.</p>
<p>I think Hopkins is neither over- nor under-rated by the general public. People who know about it respect it.</p>