<p>Hi FinalEyes: I think a lot of us are wondering why you don’t like JHU now that you’re there. It’s understandable that a year ago you were terribly disappointed to have not gotten into your dream schools. And it makes sense that your images of JHU were not very appealing having never visited nor intending to go there in the first place. But now after one year, what is your impression? Was the year still colored by your disappointment of having not gotten into an Ivy school? Or did you get immersed in life at JHU and find that you actually do like it? If the latter is true, I would try to forget Penn and Columbia for a moment and figure out how you feel about JHU now that you have been a student there. For pre-med, JHU is as good as it gets (something which wouldn’t have mattered to you as much last year before you’d realized you were interested in pre-med). So the real question is everything else (campus, activities, friends, etc.). The dream doesn’t really matter anymore now that your choices are a level playing field (for pre-med). I agree with everyone else here that you shouldn’t stay at JHU if you are unhappy. But do you think you would be happier at Penn or Columbia? Or just pursuing a former dream?</p>