Are These Classes Too Easy to Get Into Johns Hopkins U?

boysx3
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:20:19 +0000

You seem to have taken a fairly average schedule. I have never seen a course called “SAT prep” though…much less for a grade.

Your transcript and scores won’t kill your application but admissions won’t salivate over your application either.

Will your guidance counselor be checking the “most rigorous curriculum” box on your application? If you will have taken 5 APs, and most top students at your school take about the same number, you are ok; if top students take 10 APs, it will hurt you.

Another item that may hurt is that you did not take the most rigorous math curriculum, and you are applying to a very tough major–BME at JHU is very popular and your competition will have taken more rigorous math classes.

What will your LORs say about you, other than you got an A in class? In what way will you distinguish yourself from other applicants–have you done some unusual extra curriculars, or will you have a unique essay?