Competitiveness at Hopkins: it's not really that bad here
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article reports on competitiveness at Hopkins and highlights unusual courses offered that fall.
- The News-Letter reported that Hopkins is not generally an academic “battlefield,” and that students often balance schoolwork with activities outside class.
- The paper reported that sophomore Sonia Sarkar found Hopkins’s “cutthroat” reputation untrue and said group studying helped her and her friends.
- The article adds that Sarkar described Hopkins students as “wellrounded,” with interests beyond pre-medical and science fields.
- The reporter writes that Hopkins’s $33,900 price tag included access to unusual academic subjects.
- The article listed 10 fall courses, including Middle Egyptian, comic art, Dada, abnormal psychology and the structure of English.