Any chances (or instances) of people getting into Johns Hopkins with a low gpa?
Looking to major in anthropology.
Good extracurriculars. 9 APs sophomore + junior year
Couldn’t find their common data set
Highly unlikely. If you have GREAT test scores, you might have a shot.
GPA scale? Class rank? SAT? AP scores? Extracurriculars? Sports? Race? Income? Geographical location? Legacy? It’s not possible to predict your chances with a number.
If you love it, take a shot with ED.
3.5/4
No class rank
AP Scores: mostly 4s and 5s
ACT: 33
Extracurriculars: really good
No sports
Middle Upper Class Asian Female
Midwest
No legacy
Unfortunately, no hook upper middle class Asian female is one of the worst demographic for elite colleges even with a perfect GPA but do apply ED and demonstrate your love for Hopkins in every possible way. CMU, Rice, Caltech and Hopkins are less biased than Ivies.
The average uw academic GPA of class of 2022 was 3.93 https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/08/22/class-of-2022-infographic/
A few considerations:
JHU ED pool will be very strong, probably stronger than the RD pool
ACT of 33 is at the 25%ile for class of 2022 (equivalent to 1480 sat), so your test score does not help you
JHU hasn’t published a CDS for awhile, but they did not consider demonstrated interest at that time. However, I would still visit, sign-up for email list and meet with the AO when they visit your school.
Read the essays that worked on JHU’s website
Have you run the NPC to see if the school is affordable and/or your parents are willing to pay that amount?
If I were your college counselor I would tell you that your chances are very low, and I would suggest a more realistic ED school. The risk of using your ED on a nearly unreachable school is that you may give up an advantage at a school where it might be beneficial to apply ED. Either way, build a balanced college list with a few reaches, 4-6 matches, and 1-2 highly likely schools that are affordable and you would be happy to attend.
If you decide to apply to JHU ED, I recommend you apply to some schools that have rolling admissions or EA, and get an early acceptance or two. That way, if deferred or denied from JHU ED (which is highly likely), you will have more flexibility (and less pressure) when deciding your EDII/RD application strategy. Good luck.
I was going to do ed 2 to emory university if I didn’t make Johns Hopkins.
Any other schools you recommend applying ed instead of johns hopkins?
Think about U of Virginia. It releases ED option for 2020.
The ED application should ALWAYS go to the first choice. The reason is that if you were accepted ED to a lower choice, you will forever ask yourself “What if?”. Follow the advice above about applying EA to other schools, and also RD to match and safety schools. Use your school’s Naviance, if they have it. You will get in somewhere. Keep in the mind the criteria are 1) affordable and 2) a school that you would be happy to attend.
“The ED application should ALWAYS go to the first choice”
I agree with this. However, it is also important for the ED school to be affordable. Mostly this means that either the parents are fine with full pay, or they have run the NPC and are fine with the results.
One thing that is bothering about this thread: OP has a number of threads about wanting to go to an “elite” school. However, OP has a 3.5 unweighted GPA. With a 3.5 GPA, this puts OP in something close to the lowest 15% of accepted students at John Hopkins, and many other similarly elite schools. Elite schools do not have magic professors who make learning easy. They have professors who know their subject well, but so do several hundred other universities and colleges. If there is any academic difference at all, the elite schools have professors who can assume that every student is smart, well prepared, and hard working. That means that they can go faster and pile more homework on the students. This is not a good environment for someone who is coming into the school in the bottom 15% of all accepted students.
A 3.5 GPA is well above average for all high school students in the US. There are many very good universities that a student can attend with a 3.5 GPA. I think that OP should be looking for a school that is a good fit for them, not a school with a high ranking. Also, in my experience the best graduates from our local in-state public university are just as strong as the best graduates from MIT. If you do well at U.Mass Amherst or Rutgers or UC San Diego or many other schools you will have good opportunities in life, and no one will ever know whether you barely got accepted or if you went in with an unweighted 4.0 and 1550 on the SAT.
Given that OP is from the midwest, I wonder about somewhere such as U.Wisconsin. I have been very impressed by the graduates from U.Wisconsin that I have worked with.
" no hook upper middle class Asian female is one of the worst demographic for elite colleges"
That may be true for stem but not other majors. OP said anthro. But OP had better know what that field is about and have the right courses and some corresponding ECs.
Speaking of ECs, in a national pool of applicants, how do you know yours are good? And it’s not about a list of titles or hours. Or fundraising, founding clubs, and so on.
I’m going to let my post above stand. But OP has many threads that imply she’s looking for prestige with B and C grades in her transcript. In jr year, when rigor increased, half A, half B.
There is no magic wand, OP. Learn what colleges are the right fits for your hs record.
The one EC I saw mentioned doesn’t tell us what she does and one national thing would not be enough.
Lots of applicants with worse grades get into top colleges. Never say never.
Your chances for ED for somewhere like Hopkins are small. You can apply to T30 schools as reaches for RD. Assuming this is a regular public high school, with Asian and not much ECs, it is likely you will get in somewhere significantly below this level.However, it is still a decent application for many schools with the ACT and AP scores and apparently pretty strong rigor.
It’s possible ED Hopkins with anthro but you better scrub “bio” out of your screen names. Admissions there sniff out wanna be premeds, and you won’t get in if they get a whiff. And right now, right here you really give out the odor.
You’ll need some substantial back up of your interest in anthro too. Not just a course and checking off the major block.
If you are premed, don’t go to Hopkins with that record. If you somehow got in, it would be very unlikely you would get into med school. Med schools look for GPA on which their ranking are based or something. Hopkins has tons of premeds with close to 4.0 UW, almost all AP classes, with close to perfect test scores.
If your intention is premed, then I would be happy with the T100 or T150 school you will probably get into. That will make it easier to get GPA. You still might not “get in”, so you might consider dental or pharmacy school or whatever as back up.