<p>(in the case of ED) Ok, so if your GPA is great(above 4.0, and the 95th percentile and above in a pretty big school) but your test scores aren’t that good… say, the ACT composite score is 28, how would that affect the applicant? Does JHU take the highest composite score in one seating? or a combination of the highest scores?
Also, what does JHU look for in an applicant?</p>
<p>You just need a decent standardized score to get your foot in the door. It’s not SUPER important, and if it’s in the ball park, they’ll just go on to look at the rest of your app. What’s important are the courses you took in high school and how much you challenged yourself and how you fared with a difficult schedule.</p>
<p>If it helps, I got a 28 on my ACT.</p>
<p>is this hypothetical? lol</p>
<p>For the ACT, JHU takes the highest score from one seating, they do not combine scores. For the SAT, combined scores are taken.</p>
<p>As far as what JHU looks for, here is how the adcoms rank the parts to your application (1- most important to 5 - important but not a primary factor):</p>
<p>(1) High School Transcript
(2) Resume
(3) Essays
(4) Standardized Test Scores
(5) Recommendations</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>it does help!</p>
<p>i don’t know if you are “allowed to” answer this question, laxfan, but here you go anyway:
Is the johns hopkins adcom looking for an all-around person- sports, asb, music, and several other different activities, or do they also like an applicant who has a smaller variety of interests, but is involved in many aspects of that interest? does that make sense?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97255[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=97255</a></p>
<p>i recommend reading this thread because an adcom from MIT posted on it and describes applicants they look for. It’s not JHU specifically, but it might help you guys a bit.</p>
<p>prpltrmpt - my answer to your question might not be what you are looking for but here goes…</p>
<p>they are looking for both kinds of students. those who are well-rounded and diversified in their interests or those that have specific passions in get involved in specific areas. there are no rules or specifics to how the adcoms look at a students list of activities – they are just looking for the best matches to JHU, academically and socially. </p>
<p>JHU wants a diverse population in all ways, and taking students who will get involved in a number of activities as well as those who will be passionately involved in a few activities leads to such diversity too.</p>
<p>good luck.</p>