Pre-Med Hopkins! Help! Help!

Sam_Lee
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:20:17 +0000

Your assumption that “other schools are the same way” is false!

Notice how Amherst said they support viritually everyone WITHOUT RESERVATION. I also spoke with health profession advisor at Northwestern and she emphasized how they do support anyone and told me how some other schools (apparently JHU is one of them) use different tactics to discourage less qualified candidates.

Amherst’s admit rate is around 73%, if I remember correctly. Amherst’s website says for the more qualified group, the admit rate is 87%. That’s how much the difference is. I honestly think JHU’s practice is very self-serving. Why discourage people who have less chance? What do they got to lose? 60$ application fee??? It’s nothing more than applying to “reach” schools when you are in high schools! Like Amherst’s website says, some less qualified people do get in and one of the reasons was LUCK. If I want to apply to med school, the last thing I want after paying 40K to an institution is to have one of their people telling me, “your GPA sucks and you recommendation is not gonna be great”!