<p>Both are excellent–you can’t make a mistake. Visit both and choose the one which you feel is the best fit. Their cultures, while similar in many respects, are not identical and you likely will feel more at home at one than the other. </p>
<p>Minor items that may or may not be important to you. Hopkins has a much prettier and greener campus than MIT; Cambridge is a much better student environment than Baltimore. Don’t get me wrong, I actually think Baltimore can be a cool place to go to college but it is simply not Cambridge.</p>