JHU ED Class of 2024 Results ONLY Thread

platypusomelette
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:07:29 +0000

Potential Major: Mol Cell Biology / Neuroscience

Objective:

SAT: 1580 (800 R/W, 780 M)

ACT: 36 (36/34/36/36)

SAT Subject tests: Bio M 780, Chem 760

Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 96

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/199

AP (place score in parenthesis): 4s on world, APUSH, seminar, human geo, environmental science, chem. 5s on bio, research, lang

Senior Year Course Load: ap physics C mech, ap calc AB, ap literature, ap microeconomics, ap government

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): commended merit, USABO semifinalist

Subjective:

*Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

Scioly secretary, biology focus with 10 regional awards, NY states qualifiers breaking a 10+ year district record

National science bowl / 1st place at regionals, biology focus, vice president

USABO chapter founder + two time semifinalist

Summer research on effects of artesunate + quercetin on features of alzheimer’s

Orchestra violin since 4th grade, concertmaster, Tri-M society, some high NYSSMA scores

Schoolnova, STEM classes taught at stony brook

Quiz Bowl

Self taught drawing with one minor contest award

Job/Work Experience: N/A besides summer research

Volunteer/Community service: assisted and shadowed at a medical clinic, unpaid

Essays:

Common App (6): blegh. I tried to write something about my discovery / transition from art to biology, and how biology was artistic to me, but ultimately I think though it was well written it suffered from too much revisioning and was disorganized.

JHU Collaboration Supplemental (5): tried to connect a science olympiad experience to information exchange, and talked about how information exchange was my type of collaboration. The first half talking about info exchange was probably some of the best writing i've ever done and i'm extremely proud of it, but then I had to totally rush the second half about scioly and it was quite poop. Write your essays far far in advance guys.

Teacher Recommendations:

9th grade bio teacher (9): although it was a really old teacher they really liked me, someone told me they saw the letter and it was good

11th grade AP chem teacher (7): I really have no idea since this teacher probably hated me to some extent, but she knew me extremely well in my extracurriculars and from what she's said afterward I think she wrote something good.

Counselor Rec: Counselor (6): I actually saw this one, it wasn't very outstanding, seemed rather cookie cutter but spoke a lot about how I was very talented and dedicated and all that

External Rec: My research mentor (6): I saw this one, it was also somewhat cookie cutter but did provide a perspective on me from the lab which probably helped. I think it was the letter coming from the mentor that probably helped more than the letter itself

Other
State (if domestic applicant): NY
School Type: Public (199 in my class, ~750 total)
Ethnicity: Asian (Taiwanese / Chinese)
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Girl in STEM i guess

Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments:
Strengths: My resume and scores. I think I showed a lot of dedication and passion about my extracurriculars. Research might’ve been the biggest plus.
Weaknesses: Essays were probably the worst part, they were really blegh since I didn’t have any interesting things to say about myself! No big major awards, just a lot of small ones. Somewhat generic recs. Probably also blended into a large population of applicants to JHU - female, asian, going into bio lol. Barely any community service
Why you think you were accepted: Activities and scores
Where else were you accepted/rejected/deferred: N/A
Where else did you apply: N/A

Final Thoughts: I feel I was a middling ED acceptance for JHU, I got in with faith in myself but not outstandingly, and I likely would’ve been stomped if I had done RD. I’m super hype tho since this was my top school!! I know lurking these results threads helped me a lot so hopefully this helps someone. Also please keep in mind - these threads skew towards the top percentage of applicants! I personally know that a couple of applicants I’ve seen from some past threads have also qualified for crazier schools from RD so don’t feel like you have to totally line up with them to get in