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Date: Oct 25 2007
Major: Political Science (This Major's Salary over time)
JHU is a graveyard of promising young careers. It demoralized more smart kids than you could believe. It has zero name recognition outside of the med school and will not help one find a job. The nasty grading and cutthroat culture is out of step with other top schools and ends up terminating many careers. If one goes to JHU and gets a 2.5 good luck getting into a top caliber grad school. There is no consideration for JHU's grading policy in admissions. You will never get into grad school if you go to JHU for undergrad. Kids could have saved their parents a lot of dough by going to a top state school and getting a 4.0. Then go to the grad school of your choice. Go to JHU and you'll be waiting tables.
   
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responseThis review is way off the mark. For starters if you study Political Science and only have a 2.5 (even at Hopkins) then you shouldn't be going to grad school ANYWHERE!!! My Poli-Sci degree left me with my choice of good jobs btw. This is just another example of the type of negative student that give Hopkins a bad name, negative from day one, and it's always someone elses fault that they didn't do too well.
responseJHU is a very competitive place. It recruits the brightest and expects them to work hard to earn their grade. Nothing is handed to you and you shouldn't expect an easy ride. It is through the numerous hours of studying and the rigorous compeittion that I've gained the necessary knowledge to succeed in graduate school.

You evidently failed to put in the necessary work to succeed, and that is not the fault of the school but yourself.

You may be waiting tables, but countless other Hopkins graduates are leading successful lives.

responseI find it amusing that you assume a student at Hopkins would inherently excel at a "top state school." Because 4.0s are so easy to come by, especially at schools like UNC, UVa, Berkeley, and Michigan.
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