<p>AdmissionsDaniel - our family visited Hopkins on Friday. It was the last of 5 schools we visited on our Big East Coast trip. I wanted to pass along that I felt that the JHU admissions team did the best job in terms of presenting what the school is about. The presenter at the info session (a young woman who recently graduated) did a fine job - spoke for an hour with no notes and no podium, well-structured, easy to understand. The woman at Penn, for example, was in a room with bad acoustics, copious notes, and her delivery didn’t help. I mean, Penn is awesome for its own reasons - we’d be thrilled to send our son to either one - but your presenter was more committed and passionate about the school - come here, be one of us, do great things.
Then your tour guide (Josh) was terrific. Engaging, again, enthusiastic, very knowledgeable - but not afraid to say I don’t know and then check into it when we got back. None of the stuffiness or the “gosh ain’t I cool, I’m at X” attitude we saw at another school, clearly very genuinely likes being there.
Of course, the campus is gorgeous, which helps, and even your buildings and grounds folks seemed to be on their game. The place was immaculate…which I’m sure will change once the kids get back.
Anyway, our visit really left a great impression on our son, on all of us really, and pushed JHU up on his list. Plus that fact that you’re here on CC - AND on the terrific blog that I found while we had breakfast at the One World Cafe - shows that the admissions staff really has its act together.
Now all our son has to do is the Applying And Getting Accepted parts, and then wait to see what FA comes back from the various schools…</p>