<p>undecided major</p>
<p>JHU, Baltimore is a lot less dangerous compared to St. Louis which was voted the most dangerous city in America.</p>
<p>JHU is better at more things than WashU.
Hopkins has top 10 programs in just about any field, and is particularly well-known for Writing Seminars, International Relations, Public Health, Neuro-Science, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Pre-Med, Any Biology-related field, Classics, and Art History.</p>
<p>Overall, it is more well-rounded than WashU.</p>
<p>The “danger of St. Louis” is really not a valid argument against Wash U. The study only took into account the city limits; most of Wash U is in fact in St. Louis County. The area directly around the school is quite nice.</p>
<p>I didn’t even know what WUSTL was when I initially applied to colleges… I know about all the major top name schools like JHU, Duke, UChicago, Cornell, Ivies and all that… but when my guidance counselor recommended WashU to me, I was like… “Are you really going to recommend a community college to me? I’ve never even heard of this school before…” </p>
<p>It’s going to be tough trying to explain where you are going to college to everyone. WUSTL is a mouthful…</p>
<p>*I didn’t apply to WashU because I told my guidance counselor that I *forgot *to apply… I really didn’t want to apply to a school that has little to zero name recognition outside the Midwest… and name recognition is pretty big from where I am from [Cambridge, MA], Harvard, MIT, Tufts, etc… 
That’s just me.</p>