<p>im about to finish my junior year at a competitive public high school
my weighted gpa is 3.75 which puts me somewhere near the bottom of the top quarter of my class
i have taken 3 ap classes and will take 3 next year
i expect to get 5s or at least 4s on the ap tests i took this spring
i have also taken numerous honors classes, but not every one offered
sat: cr-750 math-720 writing-750
i retook the sat in june
my psat score will probably get me a letter of commendation
sat ii: bio-690 us-740 i will take literature in the fall and will most likely score in the 700s
i have played 3 different sports at my high school but none at the varsity level and i wont be playing any next year
3 years so far on the staff of the literary magazine, next year as editor-in-chief
2 years working for the schools television station, next year more advanced
essay writing is my thing so those should be pretty good</p>
<p>what do you think?</p>
<p>Bottom top 1/4 of the class will hurt yet numbers put you in range. It's a toss up.</p>
<p>I'd say you've got an OK chance--regular, you may get waitlisted, but you might get accepted later on off the waitlist (I did, and I similar stats). If you apply early, your chances would be better, but given that you're mostly a humanities kid, I don't see why you'd want to apply to Hopkins so badly anyway.</p>
<p>"but given that you're mostly a humanities kid, I don't see why you'd want to apply to Hopkins so badly anyway."</p>
<p>Umm fusiondogg, dwatkwia is editor of her school's literary magazine. JHU is #2 ranked school for creative writing.</p>
<p>thanks for responding...
so it seems its a reach but not impossible. does anyone know of anything that hopkins loves or puts a lot of emphasis on in admissions that would help my chances?
and to roberthhid or anyone -- do you know of any other good schools with good creative writing departments? where did you get that #2 statistic from?</p>
<p>Just to answer the last question: University of Iowa and Hopkins have the best creative writing (writing seminars) programs in the country. I don't know where the rankings are (probably in some literary journal), however I can tell you that this year, my IFP (Intro to Fiction and Poetry) TA said we were ranked 1st. FWIW.</p>
<p>Rankings (FWIW) are from US News and are about 10 years old (creative writing isn't ranked every year) and these rankings have all the inherent issues of US News rankings. That said it clearly remains in the top 5 in the nation. The student produced undergraduate literary journal, Zeniada, is available online here: <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/zeniada/index4.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.jhu.edu/zeniada/index4.htm</a></p>