<p>RD Applicant to JHU read this if you are interested in your application status:</p>
<p>As you can imagine, it’s a busy time in the Admissions Office as we process application materials. Because of the volume of records being handled, we regret that it is not yet possible to confirm whether application files are complete or to identity which individual items have been received. Johns Hopkins does not have an online system for checking application status, nor do we confirm application materials through email. </p>
<p>You will be mailed an acknowledgment postcard after your application is received. This indicates your application file has been opened (not necessarily that it is complete). In late February, once we have processed all received application materials, we will contact students whose applications remain incomplete. Those students will be given an opportunity to provide us with any missing items before we complete the evaluation of their applications. Rest assured that application files are checked carefully for completeness. You may call (410) 516-8171 after February 15 to check on your application, but we do ask that you call only if you have been previously contacted by us about missing materials.</p>
<p>AdmissionsDaniel- I’m loving the blog! I just got started reading the Hopkins side of Collegeconfidential, and found the link to the blog- definitely, best college application blog of any college I’ve applied to this year. The “Meet the Readers” thing is especially interesting. So, thanks for keeping that up- it’s really good!</p>
<p>Hi admissionsdaniel
in one of your older posts you mention that all applicants were sent post cards confirming that their application has been received…
I never received anything…is that okay??
secondly i received a financial aid status check link and when i opened it it said that i am required to apply for international students financial aid although im a US citizen…I emailed the office but have not received any response…please let me know what to do…I have already sent the CSS profile and the IDOC documents…
Thank you!</p>
<p>Occassionally the post cards get lost in the mail, so you should not be concerned. If you didn’t not receive an email that your application was incomplete, that you should not worry. The other way to know your application was processed is that your application fee was processed - cashed check or credit card statement. </p>
<p>As far as the financial aid question – call the financial aid office ASAP. 410-516-8028.</p>
<p>Daniel, I noticed that on the AP credit webpage, the World History exam is listed in neither the chart of accepted exams nor the note of exempted tests. I assume it is not awarded any credit (since the other histories get no credit) but I just wanted to check with you to see if that’s true.</p>
<p>kaseyditz,
Not sure why the AP is not on the list - I will look into it.
But no, we do not offer AP credit for any history exams including AP World History.</p>
<p>Hopkins does look at all three sections of the SAT Reasoning exam. Emphasis is placed primarily on the Math and Critical Reasoning sections, but the writing section is not ignored. The Writing section is evaluated very much like we evaluate SAT subject exams – they matter but they do not carry as much weight as the M and CR sections.</p>
<p>The second Johns Hopkins, grandson of the first, was born to Samuel and Hannah Janney Hopkins in 1795 on the family’s tobacco plantation in southern Maryland. His formal education ended in 1807, when his parents, devout Quakers, decided on the basis of religious conviction to free their slaves and put Johns and his brother to work in the fields. Johns left home at 17 for Baltimore and a job in business with an uncle; then, at the age of 24, he established his own mercantile house. </p>
<p>He was an important investor in the nation’s first major railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, and became a director in 1847 and chairman of its finance committee in 1855. </p>
<p>Hopkins never married; he may have been influenced in planning for his estate by a friend, philanthropist George Peabody, who had founded the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 1857. </p>
<p>In 1867, Hopkins arranged for the incorporation of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and for the appointment of a 12-member board of trustees for each. He died on Christmas Eve 1873, leaving $7 million to be divided equally between the two institutions. It was, at the time, the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history.</p>
<p>This a Mom - just trying to put things in perspective. How ARE the SAT IIs evaluated or used in admissions at JHU? There is published data about the mid 50th percentile for SAT Is by school but not SAT IIs. One can look at the mean on collegeboard.com but I am not sure how helpful that is. Schools must vary in preparation quite a bit. My son’s physics teacher, for example, was asked to leave midyear for not teaching much physics (smile!). This seems to have influenced my son’s first try at SAT II in physics, although he is taking it over in Nov and will hopefully have a chance to fill in the missing information - now that he knows there is missing information. Thanks for being on the board, btw!</p>
<p>As far as how are they evaluated, they are looked at as just another piece of academic information for an applicant. They are in no way the most important piece of information we receive about an applicant, but if they are included within the application they do matter. In the academic review of an applicant, the thorough evaluation of one’s high school transcript will always carry more weight than the review of standardized test scores.</p>
<p>In regards to the Common App supplement, in the the section (19) where it says list “Additional testing other than the SAT, SAT Subject Tests”, would the USABO (bio olympiad) count as being an additional test that we could list?</p>