#Hopkins vs Cornell

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drifting trellis
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Johns Hopkins vs Cornell
Major: History (emphasis on historical linguistics, eu history)
Similarities: both amazing schools, east coast (am a westie and want to move away), small, intimate class sizes, both expensive (price is not much of an issue)

Hopkins:
Pros:

  • Top 10 school in the nation
  • Urban location, lots to do; close to DC, the capital, lots of great resources for a history major, major city with a rich US history
  • Top research university with acclaimed professors
    Cons:
  • Baltimore's dangerous
  • sister went to hopkins, said there's a tough and stressful academic environment that's not necessarily collaborative
  • Top pre-med school but can't say the same for humanities
  • I heard the dining hall food isn't great + sister went to hopkins and I don't really want to go to the same school but not a big con

Cornell:
Pros:

  • Ivy league school, very prestigious , top university with acclaimed professors
  • Reputed dining hall food
  • Met with an alumni over Zoom who remarked about Cornell's collaborative atmosphere
    Cons:
  • Fairly isolated from opportunities
  • Rural area (I'm not a big nature person)
  • High rates of student depression and suicide

Dealbreakers:

  • student happiness, quality of life, food
  • school strength in humanities (namely history), access to opportunities
  • flexibility of changing majors, school difficulty (maybe)
  • diversity (namely -- not 50% Asian american like my old high school and many of the UCs)

Postgrad I'm currently looking into law BUT will soundly stay with history as my major and likely minor in a "marketable" subject like economics or finance or something in the department. I have no definite career I'm looking for to be honest

true ivy
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cornell

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jhu really is just a premed and ir school

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also premed

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too many premeds

surreal halo
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i don’t have a preference but i was on the cornell sub a while ago and there were a lot of angry ppl about the dining halls - something about not enough food and how bad one of the dining halls is made it a meme lmao… anyways ppl that are angry always speak out more but just thought i’d mention that. also i do remember on the sub that their mental health support is still not great

drifting trellis
surreal halo
# drifting trellis 😭 may be why they have higher suicide rates

their mental health support is not that great but iirc the suicide rates are comparable to other top schools, it’s just because of a mass suicide event that gave cornell that rep. not sure if mental health support is great or not at jhu since i didn’t apply there and thus didn’t research it.

sharp island
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the food at hopkins is p shitty ngl, at least compared to cornell. Hopkins isnt that stressful outside of premed but they are lacking in the school spirit department. There will also be constant use of drugs around you so do be mindful of that. Campus is also kinda small for hopkins and some of the freshman have to live slightly off campus. Cornell is bootiful and for the most part i dont think that the depression thing is that big of an issue. All of my friends there are happy at the very least lol.

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i have no idea how good cornell hisotry is but i know that hopkins has a really good international relations program if that means anything lol

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diversity should be about the same all around

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if you have any specific question i can try to ask my friends there

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(hopkins and cornell)