Chances at Hopkins

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<p>Background:</p>

<p>Asian in CA attending school with average SAT of 1000
Economic Status: around 20k per year & 1st generation college-bound</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted)
Class Rank: 1 or 2/380
SATI: 2120 - M 790, CR 670, W 660
SATII:
World History 800
United States History 790
MathIIC 750(predicted)
Physics 700(predicted)
AP:
AP World History 5
AP Calculus AB 5 (predicted)
AP US History 4 or 5 (predicted)
AP Physics 4 (predicted)
AP EnvSci 4 or 5 (predicted)
AP English Language & Composition 3 or 4 (predicted)</p>

<p>Major: Undecided</p>

<p>ECs:
JV Tennis 2 years
Science Olympiad 4 years
President in Key club 1 year
Member of Key club 3 years
~100 hours of community service (at hospital)
Computer tech/accounting internship over summer
CSF 4 years
NHS 1 year</p>

<p>Awards:
3 Science Olympiad regional medals</p>

<p>Other:
Essays & recommendations are solid</p>

<p>1 AP class sophmore year: AP World History
5 in junior year: AP Calc AB, AP English Lang, AP Physics B, AP Enviro Sci, AP US History
7 in senior year: AP Calc BC, AP English Lit, AP Physics C, AP Comp Sci A, AP Stats, AP French, AP Macro/Micro Econ</p>

<p>Taking most rigorous courseload in school. </p>

<p>What are my chances and what needs the most improving?</p>

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<p>Your CR and WR SAT need improvement and your EC's are sort of dull but I think you have a good shot due to your family situation and solid stats</p>

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<p>in all honesty</p>

<p>you are pretty much like me
except better in every single way
and hell, i got in!</p>

<p>there should be no reason that you would be considered ineligible
but there are many many well qualified applicants.
good luck</p>

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<p>Everything looks good, just work on your SAT score a little. You quite a strong candidate, apply ED and pray, and your good to go.</p>

5

<p>you seem like a typical hopkins applicant.....don't really know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.......be super creative/passionate on your $10 essay and they will love you</p>

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<p>I think they changed the $10 essay, and plus you can use comman application</p>

7

<p>I think you should wait until you get your scores because you have a lot of predicted scores. You should probably try to get your SAT scores up a little bit, above 2200.</p>

<p>btw Tiberian , what school do you go do?</p>

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<p>As far as your academics go, I think you look like a pretty strong applicant. The fact that you have sought out such a challenging workload and have maintained a 4.0 says a lot. Bring up your SATs and you will really be able to sell yourself as someone who can handle any academic challenge. Your ECs seem kind of one-dimensional: an interest in science with a little sports and volunteering thrown in. Try to bring out things outside of school that you are passionate about. Everyone likes to see a smart student who cares about something outside of the classroom.</p>

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<p>How do you know they changed the $10 essay? When does the 06-07 ap come out?</p>

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<p>The 2006-2007 application for Johns Hopkins University will be available in August. We will post it online here: <a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/application.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apply.jhu.edu/apply/application.html&lt;/a>. As well, our online application should go live in August, and can be accessed from that same website.</p>

<p>If you want a JHU application mailed to you, then you need to be in our mailing database (complete this form: <a href="http://apply.jhu.edu/contact/webinquiry.html)%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://apply.jhu.edu/contact/webinquiry.html)&lt;/a>. We expect to mail application packets and viewbooks in August as well.</p>

<p>Finally, we accept the following applications:</p>

<p>(1) JHU Paper Application
(2) JHU Online Application
(3) Common Application - paper version w/ JHU supplement
(4) Common Application - online version w/ JHU supplement</p>

<p>Hope this helps!</p>

<p>(P.S. And yes, there have been revisions to the JHU essays.)</p>