Johns Hopkins vs Vanderbilt ED2

[lime ibex]

Schools: JHU, Vandy
Intended Major: Either CS or Econ/Finance (for IB)
Similarities: high-ranked, known name

JHU
Pros:

• Brainy
• High ranking
  Cons:
• No grade inflation
• Worse student networking (and maybe worse alumni network?)
• Allegedly bad recruiting on campus and career center

Vandy
Pros:

• Good networking/alumni
• Name brand
• Easier grading than JHU
• Allegedly better in IB
  Cons:
• Party school
• Less academically focused (but idk if this equals worse career prospects)

Tiebreakers:
I'm primarily focused on my post-college career and not in graduate school. My issue with JHU is that despite having more academic prowess, it might be harder to get prestigious jobs or internships from there. Not sure how true this is because I've just been looking at quora/reddit answers.

In short, is getting recruited to prestigious companies in IB/CS harder at JHU than at Vandy? My high school was a lot like JHU — hard, less social/party-oriented and high-ranked — but we ironically ended up getting screwed in early college admissions because our grades were deflated too hard. I really liked my high school experience, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot twice by going to a really hard school that, by being too difficult and isolated, ultimately makes it harder to succeed.

Basically, how cooked is JHU for job recruiting, and how much of a party/nonstop socialization is necessary to success school is Vandy? And is it easier to get a good job at one or the other? Current students, please weigh in!

[jolly jacinth]

I go to Vanderbilt and my best friend is trying to go into IB while at hopkins, I feel like I can weigh in on this

we are both pretty sociable people and he dislikes the hopkins social scene. You have connections at both schools, but for finance all-together I think vanderbilt is better for netowrking and career prospects. You can get a good job at either, I really think this is more preference based on what kind of undergrad you want

also the vanderbilt party scene isn't as massive as people think, it's there, but unlike hopkins, you don't really need to participate to have a social life

friend is in a frat and thinks he would be bored to death if he wasn't

This would be an easy choice if you were like biomedical eng or premed but for CS/IB neither are crazy good

Vandy has the IB edge from what I can tell

also unrelated but I think school spirit has a lot to do with the social scene and vanderbilt has d1 SEC sports, definitely makes it feel like more of a "normal/classic" college experience

even if they aren't great

[pseudo mauve]

go vandy brudda

[proud lichen]

Vandy

[deft acorn]

Vandy dawg