I'm an international student and the truth is that in my country's best universities many of us do think JHU is more rigorous in academic affairs and it accept less students than Columbia...I know Columbia is very expensive but I just really want to spend some of my life in NYC...
Also I'm not very sure my program in JHU could prepare me for PhD... Good for you, you know what you really want, but as an international student I'm not sure if I can get a job as school counselor in U.S.
By the way I also got accepted by UVa, the social foundation program...