This is totally their style though. It was modeled on a German University and it is super rigorous. They tend to be sadistic and make trouble for you.
Almost all of the top school, except for Georgia Tech and maybe some other places in the south or midwest require vaccination, but you can maybe use a fake card.
Hopkins is solid and conservative academically. It is also heavily involved with the government. The Applied Physics Lab designs high tech stuff for the navy. There is the School for Advanced International Studies in Washington with branches in Bologna and Nanking. The Center for Health and Security was involved in a conference on a corona virus epidemic right before the pandemic started.
It must be particularly hard for the students at Hopkins Medical School, as you pretty much have to complete your studies when you are at a top medical school.
If science institutions get large enough, scientists become indistinguishable from witch doctors.