<p>Johns Hopkins is much harder to GET IN than its 29.9% acceptance rate makes many think. The middle 50th%ile SAT scores for admitted students: Verbal 660-760 Math 680-780. However, only about 1/3 of the the admitted students enrolled. People often turn down JHU for Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT, etc. The RD applicant pool is extremely strong- so I suggest considering applying to JHU Early Decision if it’s one of your top few choices. It’s better to get into your 2nd or 3rd choice in Dec. than get deferred from somewhere else and later rejected from ALL the prestigious schools, including Johns Hopkins, in the spring…</p>
<p>I disagree…Dont apply ED to a school unless you it really is your top choice…I have friends that did that just to be accepted and they are miserable this year…(</p>
<p>I have friends that would have picked Harvard over Hopkins, but are at Hopkins and love it. One applied Early to increase her chances even though she preferred Harvard. The other got deferred from Harvard (and later rejected), but made Hopkins RD- and loves Hopkins (she picked it over Cornell). Her friend had SATs 100 points higher than hers but wasn’t as lucky in the RD cycle and got rejected from JHU and 4 Ivies she applied to!</p>
<p>ok median doesnt say anything</p>
<p>numbers can be played with as much as you want.</p>
<p>If JHU decided to admit some poor disadvantaged inner city Black students with a 1100s on the SAT (something other schools like Dartmouth would never do) that would have a more negative effect on JHU’s average SAT than its median SAT. People who get in scoring below 1250 are special cases and are a small minority of the class.</p>
<p>I assure you Ivies such as dartmouth do admit these type of applicants sometimes.</p>