<p>Hispanic Male.
GPA: 3.1 (I know its incredibly low bear with me)
SAT: 2100
Math: 680
CR: 640
Writing: 780
Taking two subject tests next month in Math2 and Lit.
AP/Honors: APEL, Ap Bio, AP World and AP Environmental. Scored around 3's for all of them.</p>
<p>I am a Catholic High School senior and i have a variety of things i bring to Hopkins that are beyond my scores. For one, i am conversational in Chinese and have the ability to read and write in Korean. I have a serious passion for East Asian studies and plan to major in East Asian Language and Culture wherever i may end up. I am also an accomplished fencer. I am nationally rated and compete at a local and national level frequently. I have competed at Junior Olympics in the past and am capable of competing presently. I also play alto saxophone and have been playing for all four years in my High School concert band. Most importantly (in my opinion) I am an author. I have published a childrens book which is based around the idea/concept of imagination and preserving one's creativity through adventure and fantasy.
I am not interested in Hopkins' medical program and that is another key aspect which sets me apart from the crowd. I would attend Hopkins for their college of arts and sciences and represent the college internationally in the study abroad school in Shanghai/Beijing.
So what do you think? Feel free to ask any questions.</p>
<p>however, don’t get the common misconception that everyone who comes here is pre-med. This is not true. Granted, not putting “pre-med” or BME on the common app as your intended major might help a little, but not that much for 2 reasons: 1) that don’t NOT set you apart from the crowd. Every year tons of students apply to JHU for one of their other really strong majors (like International Relations and Writing Sems). 2) a lot of people don’t put pre-med as their intended major because they think it’ll give them a small boost in their chance and plan to become pre-med after already in Hopkins (which is easy to do)</p>
<p>Um im pretty sure that it is not easy at all to switch to the med program midway. Im actually positive. They dont want students cheating the system by stating that they are interested in something other the pre-med so their app is looked at differently-and then switching mid way. Our tour guide said it is very difficult to switch and that you should be honest about what you intend to study.</p>
<p>It’s incredibly easy to switch into any major you want (aside from going BME or switching from A&S → Engineering, but the latter is pretty easy). If you want to go premed, all it would take for me is a few clicks of the mouse to switch my courses (at course registration time). However, I think Hopkins does a good job of selecting students who don’t game the system and get in just to study pre-med (which is not a “program” per say, just a set of course requirements that can be taken with any major). It would be pretty foolish and quite difficult for someone to spend four years catering their extracurricular activities to something they aren’t interested in. It would be miserable here if everyone wanted to get in for that reason, and thankfully there is a diverse group of students here studying everything from classics to film to history to physics. Yes, some do switch to pre-med but it is by no means a majority, and some students opt to switch out.</p>
<p>I see, that does make alot of sense. I was just going by what I remember the tour guide and the admissions director talking about but since you are a student and have firsthand experience with this sort of thing i think you are definitely right. Thanks for elaborating!
:)</p>
<p>A&S–>Engineering isn’t too hard either as I was given the option several times this past semester (I’m a freshman). As long as you are taking the right classes to not be too far behind in completing that major, you shouldn’t have any trouble switching (apart from BME).</p>
<p>I think your tour guide was referring to BME as that’s the only major that’s really hard to switch into</p>
<p>What’s your class ranking? It’s hard to define what’s a “good” GPA without it. Getting into arts and crafts (hopkins inside joke) isn’t necessarily easier, because the admissions process doesn’t really consider your preferred major unless you’ve applied for BME. That said, you wouldn’t gain any advantage by applying to east asian language and not, say, biology or chem BE.</p>