Title. I’m going to apply ED2 to Hopkins for cognitive science (my field normally is linguistics and my profile is very linguistics-heavy, but linguistics is offered within cogsci) and I want to know if there exists any figures on how many aid needing international students they accept a year. I know they’re need aware, but I don’t really have other need-blind options for ED2. They’re also sort of my dream school 
Everyone’s chances at JHU are slim. US citizen, full pay, doesn’t matter- the numbers are the numbers. Does it matter practically speaking if your chances are 3% vs. 6%? Your odds have doubled- but you’re sill likely to be rejected.
Get to work on a few more “dream” schools- preferably affordable options.
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JHU has single digit acceptance rates for international students. Every international student (and even domestic ones) are not guaranteed acceptance regardless of their stats.
So…I agree with @blossom. Look for other options if you really want to study in this country.
In the link below, you do indicate applying to a strong college in your home country. That’s good.
I’m linking your chance me so people can see how strong your application is (it’s strong…but so are almost all of the others to your US list of colleges).
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As an aside, if you are planning to apply to Hopkins ED2, isn’t there some other school you are applying ED1/REA/SCEA? Wouldn’t that school be your actual dream school, and if admitted would you even apply to Hopkins?
Anyway, in their last CDS, Hopkins reported accepting 427 of 8746 Internationals, 4.9%, versus 8.3% for domestic applicants.
Then it looks like an average of 150 or so Internationals get aid a year, implying something like 68% of their International enrollees got aid. But the average amount of aid was only $12,136. So I don’t know how many Internationals get “full aid” offers from Hopkins, but it can’t be very many with that sort of average.
I also don’t know how many of the Internationals who applied were seeking large aid awards, but it was probably a decent percentage based on what I see in discussions of Internationals applying to US schools. So I would bet Hopkins’ acceptance rate among such Internationals is really, really low.
In fact, just for comparison, here are the average amounts of aid to Internationals at some need blind/full need for Internationals colleges, plus overall International acceptance rate if available, plus an estimate of how many International enrollees got aid at all (if available):
Princeton $78606 2.4% (70.2%)
Harvard $75088 1.9% (66.3%)
Yale $80285 NA (NA)
Dartmouth $81378 NA (60.1%)
Amherst $81202 2.7% (83%)
Bowdoin $77156 1.9% (42%)
So Hopkins’ estimated percentage of enrolled Internationals getting SOME aid is not too bad, but their average amount of aid is WAAAAAAY lower than at these schools.
Again, this implies a lot of Internationals who apply to these colleges are in fact very high need. Probably these colleges attract the most high need Internationals due to their need blind policies. But assuming Hopkins is anywhere close to attracting a similar amount of high need International applications, Hopkins must only be accepting a very low percentage of high need Internationals, probably much lower than the overall International acceptance percentages at those schools.
Indeed, I would not be surprised if Hopkins was accepting only a fraction of one percent of high need International applicants. And in fact the data is consistent with it being functionally 0%.
I assume all this is not what you want to hear, but it is what it is. I don’t think this means you can’t apply to Hopkins. I would just be realistic about how unlikely it appears to be to get a high aid offer from Hopkins as an International.
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