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I'm picking between a few schools I was accepted into to get a graduate degree in immunology and molecular biology. I've heard a lot of horror stories about how difficult it is to maintain an accetable gpa at Hopkins, and I was wondering if anybody here has experience there.

I'm picking between a few schools I was accepted into to get a graduate degree in immunology and molecular biology. I've heard a lot of horror stories about how difficult it is to maintain an accetable gpa at Hopkins, and I was wondering if anybody here has experience there.

So I've been accepted to the Scm program in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins, and I've already found my ideal apartment in Baltimore and am driving down this weekend to sign a preliminary lease agreement (I can always break it if I have to). I'm still waiting on admissions decisions from Caltech BBE, Baylor College of Medicine, Scripps, and U Penn, but I feel like I would have heard by now and I'm very anxious about waiting longer to accept the offer from Hopkins. Any thoughts? This is worse than the applications!

I've looked at practically all of the other apartment places within a reasonable distance to JHBSPH and we've eliminated all but Jefferson Square and 39 West Lexington. We're looking for lots of quiet and privacy, and the Fells Point and other apartments don't seem to offer this. We wouldn't be out and about at night, other than the walk I'd have to make from the shuttle stop to the front door of 39 West Lexington, and it seems to be right across the street. During the day, it seems really sketchy in all directions but south on N Liberty, which after a block opens up onto a very large intersection followed by the inner harbor area. With homework and everything I don't think I'd have much time to be out and about anyway... I'll probably wake up in the morning, pick up the shuttle, spend my day at JHBSPH, and go straight back to the apartment. I'm from New Orleans so I'm used to the "grime and ghetto just a block away", but while New Orleans has a higher crime rate, it isn't as "rough" of a city as Baltimore appears to be.

Thanks for the advice! It's pricey, but I'm moving with my fiancee and we're looking for a change from our current dumpy college apartment.

I'm attending the Bloomberg School of Public Health this fall and I'm looking at apartment buildings (and trying to understand where the Hopkins shuttle stops). How is 39 West Lexington? Good neighborhood? Safe to walk to and from the shuttle stop early in the morning and late at night? According to the shuttle schedule it stops on N Liberty street north of Lexington Street, which doesn't exist (there is an East and a West Lexington St but no plain old Lexington St).

I'm attending the Bloomberg School of Public Health this fall and I'm looking at apartment buildings (and trying to understand where the Hopkins shuttle stops). How is 39 West Lexington? Good neighborhood? Safe to walk to and from the shuttle stop early in the morning and late at night? According to the shuttle schedule it stops on N Liberty street north of Lexington Street, which doesn't exist (there is an East and a West Lexington St but no plain old Lexington St).