Please help me choose: JHU vs. Vanderbilt

Sikorsky
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:03:32 +0000

WRT academic caliber: I think you’re splitting hairs. They’re both extremely well respected, and there’s probably not a nickel’s worth of difference between them.

For me, the decision would hinge absolutely on how I felt about living in the South.

Baltimore is a peculiar place (I say that with affection for Charm City), and there really is something to the Mason-Dixon line, but it’s not like Richmond or Charlotte or Atlanta. (I’ve never been to Nashville.) Maryland is kind of too southern to be the North, and too northern to be the South. It’s neither fish nor fowl, as they say.

But I’d imagine Nashville is really the South.