Yale vs JHU vs U Penn for premed

collegemom3717
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:38:56 +0000

Nobody gets through pre-med without a lot of hard work, self-discipline and pushing themselves to do their best under pressure for sustained periods of time. Those add up to stress, no matter what.

JHU is a ‘work hard/work hard’ school. That is very stressful to some students and suits others down to the ground. CalTech (another school that the OP has been accepted to) is also considered very stressful, though in a different way.

Note also that there can be a big gap between the parent view and the student view. I know a recent JHU grad who is now doing her PhD at Oxford. Her mother will tell you how hard JHU was, how much work, how she thinks it was just too much stress. Her daughter (who has now ofc forgotten the ‘omg Mom I think I am going to fail X’ calls!) says she had a great UG experience and made a great group of friends with whom she is still close. She would also point out that it was her relationships with her profs- and their relationships with profs at Oxford- that got her the connections that now have her doing a very high-profile piece of cross-border research on pharmaceutical efficacy for her PhD, which is being co-sponsored by JHU, Oxford, the NHS and Pharma.