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03-28-2008, 07:11 PM
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#46 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 11
Posts: 90
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Accepted
Stats:- SAT: 720M/600CR/700W
- SAT II: 730 Chem, 720 Math/II, 660 Bio E
- ACT:
- GPA: 3.83UW/4.23W
- Rank: Top 5%
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) 5 on AP US, 4s on Chem, English, and Psych
Subjective- Essays: Worked very hard on these, my English teacher said these were very good
- Teacher Recs: I read one which was great, I think the other two were as well
- Counselor Rec: Didn't have much expectations for this because counselor was totally unsupportive
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)
Personal- Location: NJ
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Pakistani
- Gender Male
- Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes
Other- Extracurriculars: Robotics, Gentoo Linux, volunteering, other stuff
- Awards: Robotics related and service awards
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Make the best application you can. Don't get hung up on your weaknesses.
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03-28-2008, 07:14 PM
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#47 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: North Shore Long Island, NY Gender: Female
Threads: 0
Posts: 12
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Accepted
Stats- SAT: CR: 760, M: 800, W:750 = 2310
- SAT II: Math I: 750, Literature: 740
- ACT: n/a
- GPA: 4.0
- Rank: 7/approx. 400
- Other Tests: APUSH: 4, English Lit: 5
Subjective- Essays: I was happy with them, but who knows?
- Teacher Recs: Didn't read.
- Counselor Rec: Didn't read.
- Supplementary Material: None.
- Hook:
? Personal- Location: Long Island
- High School Type: Catholic
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: Female
- Applied for Financial Aid: No
Other- Extracurriculars: Varsity Cheerleading, tons of community service, public relations, part-time job, etc.
- Awards: National Merit
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
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03-28-2008, 07:31 PM
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#48 | | New Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: CALIFORNIA
Threads: 7
Posts: 28
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Rejected/Biology
Stats:- SAT: 800 M/640 CR/670 W
- SAT II: IIC-760; Chem-750; BioM-710
- ACT: 33
- GPA: 4.5 W; 3.93 UW
- Rank: School doesn't rank, probably top 10%
- Other Tests: AP Bio-5; AP Calc BC-5; AP Calc AB subscore-5; AP Gov, AP English, AP Spanish
Subjective- Essays: Common App ones were pretty good, I thought, but I totally didn't try on the JHU supplement
- Teacher Recs: probably good
- Counselor Rec: good
- Supplementary Material: nope
- Hook: none
Personal- Location: CA
- High School Type: big, public
- Ethnicity: asian
- Gender: female
- Applied for Financial Aid: no
Other- Extracurriculars: varsity tennis captain, wind ensemble, marching band, piano, flute, NHS, CSF, Link Crew, intern at a pharmaceutical company, Stanford Summer College
- Awards: Green and White Award
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don't know. A bit bummed, but whatever. I hope this isn't a reflection of the decisions for my other privates.
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03-28-2008, 07:49 PM
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#49 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 16
Posts: 190
| Hopkins looks BRUTAL this year.
Waitlisted. | |
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03-28-2008, 08:13 PM
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#50 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 0
Posts: 2
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Accepted!
Stats:- SAT: 800 CR, 800 M, 620 W i.e. 2220 total
- SAT II: 800 MathII, 800 Physics, 700 Literature (can kinda see a trend in the my literature/writing skills, eh?)
- ACT: N/A
- GPA: N/A
- Rank: Top 10%? Current school doesn't rank but in previous school 3/250ish
- Other Tests: IB predicted grade 41/42. Don't know what my +3 points are for TOK/EE. 11 A's for my GCSE equivalent.
Subjective- Essays: One about how amazing IB is and a whole load of pukelicious crap and another about how much I love computers. No idea if they were good, but I still cringe when reading them.
- Teacher Recs: One neither-here-nor-there and the other very enthusiastic.
- Counselor Rec: No idea. But he was really irritated with my college indecisiveness when he wrote it, but it couldn't have been that bad.
- Supplementary Material: N/A
- Hook: None that I'm aware of.
Personal- Location: International. South East Asia. That's all I'm saying.
- High School Type: Public in fresh/soph and private for jun/sen
- Ethnicity: Eurasian
- Gender: Male?
- Applied for Financial Aid: Yup.
Other- Extracurriculars: Animal Shelter volunteer, Tennis, President of General Knowledge Club (don't ask), a few vice president/committee member roles, School Magazine, helped set up AIDS/homeless shelter, whole load of outlandish activities for IB CAS.
- Awards: Quite a few. Major one is scholarship to do IB. The rest were just subject and awards for school rank.
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: No real advice to give since I am completely ignorant of their selection criteria. Just the usual stuff: take your SATs early, do your university research early, do loads of activities early, etc. All of which I didn't do, which made the whole experience rather nightmarish.
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03-28-2008, 08:17 PM
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#51 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007
Threads: 60
Posts: 323
| UGH *** I still have not received an email and I'm starting to get really annoyed | |
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03-28-2008, 08:17 PM
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#52 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Northern California, USA
Threads: 134
Posts: 988
| Hopkins does appear brutal this year but they did have a record high number of applicants and when I see all the really good kids posting on these threads - it makes me believe the applicant pool is actually stronger than I believed it to be.
It does appear as though they really do a full holistic review however because the testing range is really all over the place. I think this is good though because Hopkins isn't driven so much by the numbers. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Congrats to those who got in.  | |
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03-28-2008, 08:32 PM
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#53 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 0
Posts: 10
| Accepted, will post stats later. But I am curious. The subject line on my email said Congratulations from Johns Hopkins University. What was the subject line for rejections and wait lists - bad news or the wait isn't over??? Could you tell from the subject line the way I could? | |
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03-28-2008, 08:40 PM
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#54 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 3
Posts: 9
| Accepted
You guys will freak out if I write my GPA here.
It sucks ass | |
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03-28-2008, 08:43 PM
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#55 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 0
Posts: 20
| No. The subject line (at least for wait-lists) was: "Message from Johns Hopkins University." | |
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03-28-2008, 08:48 PM
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#56 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Threads: 1
Posts: 21
| For my son:
Accepted
Stats:- SAT:800/750/780 (CR/M/W)
- SAT II: Math2, 800; Physics 800
- GPA: 3.9? uw
- Rank: school doesn't rank, probably top 5 of 300
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) AP Lang, AP Comp Sci A, AP Physics B, all 5s
Subjective- Essays: okay
- Teacher Recs: probably good
- Counselor Rec: don't know
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) none
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) none
Personal- Location:NJ
- High School Type: mediocre public
- Ethnicity: white
- Gender M
- Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes
Other- Extracurriculars: FIRST robotics, debate, math league, science league
- Awards: NMF, AP Scholar
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: didn't expect this, was pleasantly surprised by the financial aid
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03-28-2008, 09:09 PM
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#57 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Threads: 1
Posts: 7
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Accepted
Stats:- SAT: 2220; 780m, 730cr, 710w
- SAT II: 790bio, 750math, 740chem
- ACT: 34
- GPA: 4.0
- Rank: 1/400some
- Other Tests: IB SL Math 7, IB SL French 6, APUSH 5, APLit&Comp 5
Subjective- Essays: common app one was about my interest in shaping ideas written in an unorthodox format; second one was about bme as a really useful field and about my research internship
- Teacher Recs: didn't read
- Counselor Rec: didn't read
- Supplementary Material: none
- Hook: none
Personal- Location: Colorado
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Chinese
- Gender: Female
- Applied for Financial Aid: yes
Other- Extracurriculars: summer internship at CU's med school, debate, mun, nhs, mock trial, drama, a year of jv tennis--more that I can't remember
- Awards: National Merit Finalist, NPPF quarterfinalist x2, various other debate/mun/mock trial awards
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don't know if I got accepted to the BME major--but if I wasn't, then I'll probably be going to ASU, for all you waitlisted out there who need some hope. (:
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03-28-2008, 09:16 PM
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#58 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 9
Posts: 130
| Decision: Accepted
Stats:
* SAT: 2310 superscore(800CR, 780M, 730W), 2250 one sitting
* SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 760 Chem, 720 Lit
* ACT: 36 superscore, 35 one sitting
* GPA: 3.93 uw, 4.25 w
* Rank: 1/640
* Other stats:
Subjective:
* Essays: Unique, though long winded.
* Teacher Recs: Good, but they sounded a bit generic
* Counselor Rec: I don't think he put much effort in it
* Hook (if any):
Location/Person:
* State or Country: Iowa
* School Type: Sort of big public, rarely sends to Ivy League calbur
* Ethnicity: Asian.
* Gender: Male
Other Factors:[list][*] Extracurriculars:Varsity tennis, Theater (with Awards), NHS 2nd VP, Placed in a State Math Contest, a bunch of little volunteering things, Went to a poor country and built a library and ran a summer camp and taught a load of english classes.[*] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Stats, me thinks. | |
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03-28-2008, 09:21 PM
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#59 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hickory Hills, IL
Threads: 69
Posts: 472
| *** stiloll havent goten my emial this is johnny hopykinsssssss bool shiyotttttt | 
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03-28-2008, 09:42 PM
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#60 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 2
Posts: 10
| Accepted (Kanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences) Objective Statistics- SAT: 2,170/2,400
- GPA: Approximately a 4.0 out of a possible 4.4.
- Rank: Top 10% of class.
Subjective Statistics- Essays: Representative of what makes me "tick."
- Teacher Recs: I do not know the quality of these because I waived my right to access them.
- Counselor Rec: I do not know the quality of this because I waived my right to access it.
- Supplementary Material: None.
- Hook: None.
- Extracurriculars: Participation in numerous community service clubs as well as membership on my high school's debate team.
- Awards: Various academic honors but none that are too significant.
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