Anxious of getting into JHU?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Goes to a public school (812 API) in California
Gender and Ethnicity: Male, Indian
4.00 GPA (unweighted) (9-12)
4.79 GPA (weighted) (9-12)
Class rank: 1/259 (Valedictorian)</p>

<p>Test Scores:
SAT: 2210 - 680 CR, 750 M, 780 W, Essay: 11/12
ACT: Did not submit
SAT II Biology M: 790
SAT II Math L2: 760
SAT II U.S. History: 710</p>

<p>Course Rigor:
Took 4 Honors in freshman year (7 total).
Took 1 AP class (AP Biology) in sophomore year and 4 Honors courses (7 total).
Took 4 AP classes and 1 Honor's course in junior year (6 total).</p>

<p>Senior year schedule:
1. AP Physics C
2. AP French Language
3. AP English Lit.
4. AP Statistics
5. AP Environmental Science
6. Econ/Govt.</p>

<p>-Only one AP course remaining in my school (AP Art)</p>

<p>-Apparently, my counselor said she'd never seen anyone like me in her 20 years of her career and that no one has taken this much course rigor (hope this carries some weight, as she said it's in her rec.</p>

<p>AP Scores:
AP Biology (sophomore): 5
APUSH (junior): 4
AP English Lang. (junior): 5
AP Calculus AB subscore (junior): 5
AP Calculus BC (junior; not offered, so self-studied): 5
AP Chemistry (junior): 5</p>

<p>EC's/Volunteer work:
-Volunteered at Canal Alliance for 2 years; (helping lower-class kids in education).
-Member of Youth Leadership Institute:
-Member of its Marin County Youth Commission and President of its Health Committee (3 years)
-Member of its Healthy Empowered Youth Program. (for 3 years)
-Successfully completed and honored in Toastmaster's International Youth Leadership program. (2010 summer)
-Enrolled in summer classes from UC Berkeley in a program called Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) for in summer of 2009.
-Member of Link Crew for 2 years (max); (helps high school freshmen to transition into high school life).
-Member of Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra for 3 years.
-Founder of Tennis Club and Cultural Diversity Club.
-Member of Varsity Tennis team (Co-captain).
-Member of California Scholarship Foundation (3 years)
-Peer Tutored kids after school in my high school
-Member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program (2 years)
-Member of Marin Indian American Association: Member in cultural events and youth education programs. Raised Haiti earthquake relief funds. Taught Indian heritage to young children. (2 years)
-Worked as a paid intern at a Kaiser Perm. Hospital Intern for its 2010 Summer Youth Employment Program- lots of medical experience.
-Went to UC Davis COSMOS program for math and science in summer of 2011 for -Biochemistry (25% acceptance rate)
-23 Community College Credits (Have taken 1 college class per semester since beginning of the 9th grade, will again this Spring)</p>

<p>Awards and Honors:
-AP Scholar w/ Distinction
-President/Member of French Honors Society
-MVP of Varsity Tennis team
-California Legislature Assembly Leadership Award-for making change in health-related issues in my community</p>

<p>Essays:
-Talked about my deep interest for biology and neuroscience and planned goals in college
-Compared Tom and Jerry to my personality, as an analogy.</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:
1 Science, 1 US History, and 1 Math, and they all know me well.
Counselor Rec is really, really good.
1 Supplemental Recommendation by my school principal (occurs rarely in my school)</p>

<p>Interests:
I'm thinking of majoring in Neuroscience. </p>

<p>I probably shouldn't be doing these dumb chance threads, but I'm just anxious. Also, I'm bored as a second semester senior. =p</p>

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<p>Are you serious? Looks to me like your just bragging about your credentials. We both know you are a good applicant and you have a good chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>^That. If you didn’t make it I’d be surprised.</p>

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<p>Sorry, sorry, I just had a couple people on other forums tell me I’m “just a subpar” candidate. I guess I should not have taken that too seriously. I’m very sorry, I was not trying to brag. =( I can definitely see how you could have taken it that way.</p>

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<p>It’s not possible to take both calc ab and bc in one year. The AP test, that is.</p>

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<p>If you take the AP Calculus BC Test, like I did, you get an AB sub-score since there is AB material on the test. There is both BC and AB material on the BC exam, whereas, of course, just AB material on the AB exam. Notice how I said “AP Calculus AB subscore” not “AP Calculus AB score.”</p>

<p>By the way, this may be unrelated, this is not a ■■■■■ post.</p>

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<p>But they do give you the AB subscore when you take the BC test, like he said.</p>

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<p>Posting at the same time. Good luck.</p>

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<p>O.o i know you aren’t a ■■■■■… i just thought you made a mistake or something o.o and I was confused about how you could possibly yake two APs at the same time…</p>

<p>But yeah good luck, you probably made it, esp because of that insane GPA. How you managed to do that… (no sarcasm, so don’t accuse me
of calling anyone a ■■■■■)</p>

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<p>Haha, thanks. Sorry for making you feel uncomfortable. Good luck as well.</p>

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<p>Based off your courses and weighted gpa, our schools have similar grading scales. 4.76 gpa and I’m 14th out of ~550 :(</p>

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<p>Holy c**p how many weighted do you guys have to take???</p>

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<p>i wouldn’t say you are an average applicant but i wouldn’t say you have a great chance like some of these other posters either. The RD competition is ridiculous (with an acceptance rate in the 12% range). it’s tough to stick out and frankly it’s out of your hands now. Go out and stop stressing over chances on this forum by asking peers that have no idea. I tutored some high ranking students (including the Salutatorian of Los Gatos high in NorCal last year who got rejected with from JHU but ended up at UCLA and the Valedictorian of another Norcal school that ended up at Cornell CALS but rejected at a bunch of other schools including JHU) with better numerical stats than you. Be happy if you get in, but remain cautious in the meantime and don’t get your hopes up for any singular school only to be let down hard later.</p>

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<p>^Yeah agreed Blah. Its just the anxiety. Gonna go out and play some tennis. No more of these stupid chance threads.</p>