<p>how is hopkins overrated? care to elaborate?</p>
<p>in many regards, the undergrad is actually underrated. all you hear about is pre-medicine and bme, but hopkins has top departments in many fields ranging from art history to english to writing sems to IR. </p>
<p>if you want to go by the rankings, though we all know how much they suck, jhu is below washu but above rice in econ</p>
<p>it is also below rice in chemical engineering but above washu in ChemE… all according to nrc</p>
<p>btw, were it not for baltimore’s bad rap (which for the most part is not totally fair because there are some great parts and homewood campus is nice-looking and safe thanks to security efforts. plus it has the second largest number of colleges. second only to boston) i think the school would get the attention it deserves. imagine if hopkins was in a flashy area like some parts of dc, nyc, or near beantown or something.</p>
<p>i will agree that rice is probably a little underrated in some areas. washu…not so much. haha i think it is actually overrated. anyone care to enlighten me?</p>