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Washington University in St. Louis or Johns Hopkins?
I am a senior in high school and have come down to the stage of deciding which school to attend for the next four years. While I have been waitlisted to a few schools, on a practical level, my choice is between Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins. I haven't visited either school yet, but I have heard great things about each. I want to go into archaeology and go on to get a PhD in that field. However, I would like to focus more on medieval european archaeology, and from the research I have done, it seems that Wash U has more for that than Hopkins, a lot more. However I am not sure. I also prefer a nice setting, nice architecture, interiors, good faculty relationships, numerous resources, opportunities, and many other things I can't think of. I am not crazy for parties, but I am not antisocial. I do not intend to join a frat, but I would like to join some clubs (I am big on the environment, all different types of music, travel, vegan). Overall, I love to learn, and want a school that will allow me to endure what I love to do, while not exploiting it to the point of misery. I really would like a school that has a good amount of humanities programs like I described, so that I can basically have a major in archaeology but focused in medieval europe. I want to be able to take a lot of interesting classes. I want to be able to learn as much as I can (get my money's worth!) Thanks for all of the help, I desperately need it since both are such great contenders.
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- Washington University in St Louis seems like the better choice, both are excellent schools.
- Johns Hopkins is a far better school and you'll be able to get into better graduate schools from that school. You'll also have better chances at study abroad, and the school will have a far more diverse set of students, in a city setting. At Wash U you'd have to travel hours if not days to a city, at John's Hopkins there are several cities within close proximity, imagine how easy it is to travel to Europe from the East coast instead of from the Midwest. You may want to double major also better at John's Hopkins. The people, culture, urban life, architecture are far better at John's Hopkins.
- JHU is notorious for how badly undergrads are treated. Just the opposite with Wash U. As far as rankings, the 2 are tied at #13 national universities by the US News poll.
