<p>For real? You would pass up Johns Hopkins for Wake Forest??? Johns Hopkins has far more prestige in every academic discipline (except business), a much more accomplished and ambitious student body, more social resources given its location in a better city (there are few cities that Baltimore is better than, but Winston-Salem is one of them!), and better graduate school/professional school/employment placement. WFU does have a more traditional campus culture with more school spirit and Div. I athletics in the ACC, but it is the #3 school in NC and the ACC behind Duke and UNC. Hopkins has made dramatic improvements in its campus culture and undergraduate student life in the last 10 years, so it is now not an awful place to spend 4 years–but it is still not a Duke, Georgetown, UVa, Stanford, etc. in terms of quality of life. Quality of life is probably still better at WFU, but I cannot imagine anyone choosing WFU over JHU.</p>