<p>In the additional testing section, typically students put their AP scores. You may put your Olympiad scores there as well, but in most situations students will list those scores in the Additional Information section. There is no formal rule … which ever method works best for you.</p>
<p>Thanks. Have another question. if you don’t mind. When you receive a transcript that has weighted grades do you unweight them by the high school’s formula? I am curious as last year our high school went to number based grades for weighting so son will have 2 years of letter based weighting and 2 years of number based weighting. Honestly, I have no idea if that makes a difference or not although I suspect it is to give a more accurate rank. If you do recalculate, do you give more weight to AP than Honors? We did hear that AP courses should be taken if available when we visited. That surprised me as some of the honors classes at our school have reps for being harder than the AP class in that subject area. Plus some of them have the best (or most loved) teachers whereas many AP classes seem to go to new teachers for some crazy reason. Sorry for the long post.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response.</p>
<p>Rileydog …
… read this thread on the Hopkins Forums … it will answer your questions in a general fashion … that’s the best answer I can give because every individual situation will be handled individually. </p>
<p><a href=“http://z14.invisionfree.com/Hopkins_Forums/index.php?showtopic=287[/url]”>http://z14.invisionfree.com/Hopkins_Forums/index.php?showtopic=287</a></p>
<p>If I understand this correctly, you unweight by the school’s formula and then apply your grade conversions without giving any direct benefit to the GPA for taking AP or honors courses? In that context, how would you compare those who took the more rigorous program with those who did not? We did hear a strong emphasis on taking AP courses at the admissions session. From the average, it seems that most students admitted to JHU have a nearly straight A average. Is it therefore possible that the student who did challenge himself by taking all APs/Honors but received some Bs would have a lower likelihood of admission than a student who took a smattering of APs/honirs and level ones but achieved all As? Or do all of your admits have the same profile of coursework?</p>
<p>Given this, how does JHU assess for grade inflation/deflation, etc across schools? If a student has an English teacher, for example, who refuses to give more than two As in the class, etc, compared to another school where the English teacher is far more generous? </p>
<p>Honestly, you have a very difficult job and I am sure there is no one right way to do this but there sure are a lot of potentially confounding factors.</p>
<p>Sorry, just ignore my questions - on rereading you have already stated that each would be handled individually.</p>
<p>Here is my best piece of advice … don’t stress about such questions. Admissions professionals are well-trained at what we do … we know all the intricate details that go into a transcript and a school profile and we do our research about schools. </p>
<p>At Hopkins we have regional areas we are responsible for and each counselor becomes well versed in the school profiles in their area. We visit the schools, we speak with counselors, we do institutional research based on past applicant and prospect database. Simply put we know what we are doing. </p>
<p>And yes, each case is handled individually.</p>
<p>Thank you AdmissionsDaniel - I am ready to give this over to you anyway! I think this is a full time job trying to figure school’s admissions processes and I already have a full time job! Thanks for your presence again - I am sure a few more questions might come up here and there.</p>
<p>Hi AdmissionsDaniel,</p>
<p>Is there any preference for what subject the teacher teaches that writes the letter of recommendation? Is it all right to have two science teachers if I’m applying to BME or is it always better to have one math/science and the other humanities/social sciences?</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Also, my guidance counselor for the past three years is out on maternity leave, so the recommendation is from a counselor who doesn’t know me well. Should I include that information in the Additional Info section?</p>
<p>Teacher letters of recommendation:
Hopkins requires one teacher rec., in addition to your counselor letter of recommendation. You may submit additional rec. letters but we request no more than four. The choice of which teacher(s) to ask to write your rec. letters is your own choice … we do not provide any restrictions. I usually suggest that students select a junior or senior year teacher. And also if sending multiple teacher recs., they should be from different disciplines.</p>
<p>As far as your counselor letter, your counselor should note the fact that your previous guidance counselor is on maternity leave in his/her letter.</p>
<p>INTERVIEWS!!!
AdmissionsDaniel,
how important are the interviews?</p>
<p>he’s answered the interview question many times: they’re not evaluative, they’re informative. so, they’re however important the questions you ask at them are, not how well you perform at them. </p>
<p>also (everybody, not just jjjjjj89), this is supposed to be a place for AdDan to post bulletins to us, not a place for us to ask him questions. Search the archives and jhu site and if that doesn’t suffice, make a thread.</p>
<p>alright, i’m off the soapbox.</p>
<p>Just look at any of these threads from this search list of “Interviews”:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=8211930[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/search.php?searchid=8211930</a></p>
<p>And even more on interviews:</p>
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<p>AdmissionsDaniel,
D will be at open house on 20th, She is interested in math/chem or math/econ. Will there be the opportunity to sit in on a class? Even though econ is in social sciences would there be the opportunity to find out about it and possibly sit in on one of those classes as well?</p>
<p>Also, any sops planned for monmouth county NJ?</p>
<p>Our Open House programs in the fall are held on Saturdays so there is not an option to sit in on classes. Faculty will be available from the various academic departments to speak with students, and as well we will have a large number of current students available to answer questions. The October 20th Open House will feature the Natural Sciences and Engineering departments at Hopkins so your daughter will have the chance to see faculty from the Math and Chemistry Departments. Economics will not be on display as it will part of our October 27th Humanities and Social Science program. </p>
<p>Unfortunately as far as your second question, I have no idea what “SOPS” stands for. If it relates to some type of off-campus recruitment events, you may check our web site here: <a href=“http://apply.jhu.edu/visit/offcampus.html[/url]”>http://apply.jhu.edu/visit/offcampus.html</a>.</p>
<p>Should the teacher recommendations be sent before or after I submit the common app and supplement for JHU?
If I submit a request for an interview, is it possible to also withdraw that request?
Thanks in advance!</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Teacher recommendations should be sent before the application deadline. They may arrive before or after one’s application. </p></li>
<li><p>If you want to withdraw a request for an off-campus alumni interview you must send an email to <a href=“mailto:NASC@jhu.edu”>NASC@jhu.edu</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I accidentally gave Teacher Evaluation 1 to both of my teachers to fill out! Should I ask one of them to copy their answers onto Teacher Evaluation 2 or is it ok as long as there are 2 teacher evaluations?</p>
<p>Not a problem … you can use the same teacher evaluation form for all recommendations.</p>