<p>Overall, JHU sounds like a place I’d like to apply to, but I’ve heard a few not-so-appealing aspects of the university. Are these true?</p>
<p>a) Lots of smokers (no offense to those that do, but I myself can’t stand smoke…)
b) Not so clean buildings…critters? xD
c) Professors not so into teaching, more into their research
d) Food not great (well you know, I’m sure everyone wants good brain food)</p>
<p>On a side note, does anyone know what % of pre-med students at JHU get accepted into JHU med?</p>
<p>I would say there are a LOT less smokers than other colleges (I’m not sure where you go that from)</p>
<p>Buildings are clean, I’ve never seen critters</p>
<p>I’ve only had 1 prof that I would say didn’t care about students. Just about all of them do though</p>
<p>Yea, the food is terrible</p>
<p>While I don’t have any statistics I would imagine that it is less than 1% of pre-meds go to JHU med school. But there are more Hopkins admits than any other school, take that as you will</p>
<p>Very few smokers.
Buildings are fine. Homewood campus is beautiful
Professors are brilliant, helpful, and easily accessible.
Food is consistent with mass producted food at other colleges; basically, it’s all terrible.
25% to 30% of incoming Freshman are pre-med. About 18% remain pre-med by Senior year. Don’t know how many JHU go to JHU medical school.</p>
<p>a) all campus buildings are non-smoking, and smoking is only allowed in designated out-door areas that are away from buildings and walkways. I am a non-smoker, and actually detest smoke – and I have no problem here. Social smoking (when drinking of course) is a bit more frequent but still less than a lot of schools i have been too.</p>
<p>b) The buildings here at Hopkins are reasonably clean. Many of the buildings are anywhere from 50 100 years old which many people assume means dirty. The only critter problems I have heard of on campus are in the dorms when people do not clean up after themselves. There used to be a room in Levering that was known for rats, but it was renovated and no problems since.</p>
<p>c) Hopkins is the oldest and most reknowned research based institution in the US. That said research is important here, but teaching is as important if not more so for professors. In my experience, professors have ranged from good to excellent teachers. There is even one
professor here, he teaches organic chemistry, whose research is on how to teach more effectively.</p>
<p>d) You are correct in that everyone wants to get good brain food. Here at Hopkins the complaint that I hear most often about the food is that menu options are too repetitive. I have heard that dinning services is trying a new method of this year, hopefully for the best. Of your questions, in my opinion this is where JHU really needs to improve – but I have seen them working on it.</p>
<p>the buildings and the campus are very well maintained in my opinion.</p>
<p>the vast majority of the professors are very into teaching, some even opt out of research just to teach and many of the good researchers teach low level classes to engage young minds.</p>
<p>The one I will give you is that the food is pretty lame, but its edible and there are plenty of options. Theres enough packaged stuff in Mega Bytes you can store up on my roomate and I keep lots of food in the room too just in case.</p>
<p>Research isnt really a stress because its something you should be really excited and interested in doing. Its not like “gee, I need to do research” its more like “ya, i really want to do some work in this field” and that goes for humanities, social sciences etc as well not just hard sciences.</p>
<p>the food is good enough to the point where you may even have some favorites at certain dining halls. but bad enough in that if you’re offered an opportunity to dine out, you’ll jump at it! there are some good eats in the area too.</p>