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03-28-2008, 05:50 PM
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#16 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 0
Posts: 12
| Accepted!!!!!!!!!. very excited i'll post my stats later | 
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03-28-2008, 05:55 PM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Michigan---->Macalester '12 Gender: Female
Threads: 58
Posts: 414
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Wait-Listed
Stats:- SAT: 2140 (760CR/720M/660W)
- SAT II: 780 Lit, 790 Math II, 730 USH
- ACT: 34
- GPA: 3.84 ish
- Rank: around 15% or a bit below
- Other Tests: 4 on both APUSH and AP Eng Lang
Subjective- Essays: Not especially good, but not horrible
- Teacher Recs: Not sure what to compare them to (read one, and it was good, but don't know how good); neither was bad though.
- Counselor Rec: at least okay; my counselor knew enough about me to write more than a generic letter, and I know it was a positive rec, but I don't know how it would compare to others
- Supplementary Material: none
- Hook: none
Personal- Location: small town outside of Ann Arbor, MI
- High School Type: public with about 1200 or so students
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: Female
- Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
b]Other[/b] - Extracurriculars: Violin, Destination Imagination, Quiz Bowl, World Cultures Club, co/assistant managed a 5th grade DI group this year
- Awards: Nothing extraordinary
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Disappointed that I didn't get in, but at least I didn't get rejected; I'm going to try to send in new material, etc. Hopefully a supplemental/new essay (my Chicago one that I wrote after I sent in the common app) if that's allowed, plus a statement of continued interest, etc. Hopefully this means I still have a chance at some of my other reach schools.
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03-28-2008, 05:55 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: las vegas, nv Gender: Male
Threads: 14
Posts: 190
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Accepted for Econ
Stats:- SAT:2190
- SAT II:720, 700
- ACT:
- GPA:3.9uw
- Rank:
Subjective- Essays: i think good
- Teacher Recs:?
- Counselor Rec:he said it was good
- Hook:location?
Personal- Location:NV
- High School Type
 rivate catholic - Ethnicity:hispanic and white
- Gender
- Applied for Financial Aid: yes
Other | |
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03-28-2008, 05:56 PM
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#19 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Threads: 14
Posts: 115
| accepted haha
SAT 2310 | |
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03-28-2008, 05:56 PM
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#20 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Gender: Female
Threads: 36
Posts: 552
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Waitlisted
Stats:- SAT:
- SAT II: 750 both chem & math 2
- ACT: 33
- GPA: 3.99 UW
- Rank: top 10%
- Other Tests: APs
Subjective- Essays: Strong, I thought...
- Teacher Recs: Didn't read
- Counselor Rec: Good
- Supplementary Material: none
- Hook: none
Personal- Location: Utah
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: F
- Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
Other- Extracurriculars: lotsss.
- Awards: NCTE nomination, many art show awards, AP scholar w/distinction, a few other minor ones
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Wasn't expecting wait list.
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03-28-2008, 06:00 PM
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#21 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 0
Posts: 20
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Wait-listed
Stats:- SAT II: 700 Math 2, 760 USHistory, 730 Bio M
- ACT: 33 (30 Math & Science, 35 Reading & English)
- GPA: 4.17 W
- Rank: unranked
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) 5's on CompSci AB and US History, 3's on Latin: Virgil and Music Thoery
Subjective- Essays: I thought my common app essay was good, if long
- Teacher Recs: I'd imagine very positive, though I haven't read them
- Counselor Rec: same as above
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) I sent in a violin recording, as well as the abstract of a research project I did on Saturn that won 4th place at ISEF
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)
Personal- Location: California
- High School Type: Private
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Male
- Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes
Other- Extracurriculars: programming projects (including one used widely by my school), various orchestras
- Awards: 4th place at ISEF
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My application seems to just scream "wait-list" to admissions officers; already 3/6 of my schools (MIT, Haverford, JHU) have wait-listed me.
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03-28-2008, 06:06 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Threads: 10
Posts: 231
| copied from another waitlist post
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College Class Year: 2012
ACADEMICS
High School: Private, Small
GPA: UW (3.69): W(School doesn’t weight):
Class Rank: School Doesn’t Rank
AP/IB [5]: US History (5), Bio (4)
SR YR AP/IB: AP Calculus AB
SAT I: Math (690); CR(720); W(730/12 essay)
SAT IIs: IIC: 740 US: 780 BIO/M: 800
OTHER:
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Key ECs: Research and Science Fair competitions. I was Best in Category and 1st place in Medicine and Health at the International Science Fair (ISEF) last year. I was also best in fair at State. Siemens Westinghouse semi. See my profile for a more extensive list.
Leadership positions: Student Body VP, Model UN Chair and delegate, only clarinet in Jazz band
Volunteer/Service Work: Standard hospital volunteering
HONORS AND AWARDS
ISEF Best in Category Med. Health
ISEF first in category Med. Health
Siemens Westinghouse Semi-finals
Best in Fair at State/1st in Category
Assortment of other science research based awards- see profile if you really want
Essays: I liked them.
Reccs: Didn’t see them
Hooks: Double Alumni, Science Research
Kind of surprised :-\ I know my SAT scores and GPA arn't amazing, but ive seen that range be accepted. Also the whole ISEF thing and both my parents going. oh well, guess ill wait for the rest of my rejections | |
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03-28-2008, 06:12 PM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 33
Posts: 429
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Rejected
Stats:- SAT: 2170
- SAT II: 800, 740, 710
- GPA: 3.4 UW
- Rank: top 20%, pretty low rank for my school
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB)
5s on AP Comp Sci and World History
Subjective- Essays: Allright, sort of risky so I might have turned them off
- Teacher Recs: Okay, both from math teachers though
- Counselor Rec: Probably good
- High School Type: Totally non-competitive public. Sends people to Hopkins regularly though...
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Male
- Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
Other- Extracurriculars: Bland
- Awards: None
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Well, I have to say that holistic admissions can be frustrating. After applying it's not like one can say "Well, this is what I did wrong, and I need to work on XYZ. But nonetheless, I never won any major awards, nor did I start applying myself academically until mid-way through my junior year - and my class rank reflects that.
Nonetheless, I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed to get rejected by all of "target/reach" schools, since I felt like I had some redeeming qualities from the get-go that would get me in to some competitive school.
When I get down about it, I just try to remember that there are students out there who have been working their entire lives in academics to get to this point - and find an accepted letter. I've only been really taking the hardest classes possible my Junior and Senior years, so I have no one to blame but myself
Good luck to everyone who's going to Johns Hopkins next year. | |
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03-28-2008, 06:13 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Threads: 81
Posts: 207
| waitlisted...this sucks..BME was crazy hard this year!!!!
SAT: 2220 (790M, 630CR, 800W)
SATIIs: Math 2 - 800 Bio-M: 710 USH: 680
GPA: 4.76/4.0weighted scale
Rank: 6/155
APs: 5s on bio/calc ab, 4 on stats with self study, taking 6 this year
Essays: I thought they were on the whole very good
Recs: confident in them
Hooks: none
Ethnicity: indian
Gender: Male
Location: NJ
the last 3 hurt a lot...
if any other posters decide to post their stats or their decisions, could you write where you got accepted/waitlisted/rejected? like, i got waitlisted for BME | |
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03-28-2008, 06:15 PM
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#25 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Soon to be Johns Hopkins
Threads: 27
Posts: 393
| Accepted
Stats
SAT - None
ACT - 32
GPA -4.00 UW
Rank - 1/300
Other tests - 3 APs, all 5s
Essay - decent
Recs - okay, didn't counselor's
Supplementary - sent in art portfolio
Hook - location = SD
Location -SD
High School - public
Ethnicity - mixed - not URM
Fin Aid - No
ECs - not much
Awards -not much
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging? - I think my essays got me in, really, because none of my other stats really stand out | |
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03-28-2008, 06:16 PM
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#26 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Threads: 5
Posts: 22
| bpatel890: it doesn't mean that you got waitlisted for BME
Last edited by robertkim : 03-28-2008 at 06:16 PM.
Reason: forgot to mention the username
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03-28-2008, 06:16 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Threads: 28
Posts: 220
| anybody know what the median score for JHU students is? in terms of SAT | |
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03-28-2008, 06:16 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Threads: 28
Posts: 220
| anybody know what the median score for JHU students is? in terms of SAT | |
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03-28-2008, 06:19 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Threads: 81
Posts: 207
| my bad, does it just mean you're waitlisted for all applicants to JHU?? im pretty sure that people who psted stats would have gotten in if what program they applied to was irrelevant to thier admissions decision...but i could be wrong.
you can find median SATs on collegeboard.com when you send scores to JHU. | |
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03-28-2008, 06:20 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Threads: 25
Posts: 209
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[ *]SAT:2210 780M 700CR 730W
[ *]SAT II: Math II 790 US History 780 Bio M 780 Chem 800
[ *]GPA: i like like 3.8ish
[ *]Rank: 1/532
[ *]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB): Calc BC: 5 US History: 5
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: I felt they were good
[ *]Teacher Recs: idk did let me read them
[ *]Counselor Rec: same as above
[ *]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list] none
[ *]Location: NJ
[ *]High School Type: An above average school
[ *]Ethnicity: South Asian
[ *]Gender: Male
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list] NO
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]Kinda sad, kinda ****ed, and kinda expected | |
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