<p>If so for what? to who?</p>
<p>Based on Financial Need.</p>
<p>No merit scholarships?</p>
<p>Baltimore Scholars (students at Baltimore City Public high schools) that are accepted at JHU get full rides.</p>
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<p>Very, very little (amount and number of scholarships is comparable to Duke). Most aid is need based.</p>
<p>@MasterMargarita Are you serious?! That’s so unfair!!!</p>
<p>@al6200 oh 
so how is the FA? Is it good? Cause my family will probably make about a higher middle range amount but we have like crazy high debt and stuff</p>
<p>The financial aid I received from Hopkins was the best from the schools that accepted me. Those were Carleton, Northwestern, and Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>Idk…OU full ride or take a chance with JHU FA…</p>
<p>Yes, I’m serious. It’s usually about 10 or so kids. A very small percentage.</p>
<p>JHU only gives out FA due to institutional obligations (i.e, people who donate money insist it be distributed according to merit). Merit based aid is mostly a way for 2nd tier schools to pull students accepted to better schools. </p>
<p>Why not apply to JHU and OU and then see what comes up?</p>
<p>Cause I hate to lose. So if I work my butt off trying to get into JHU and WUST (yep just added that one lol not official yet) I don’t want to end up getting denied.</p>
<p>The hard work is worth it though. At least, it was for me. It feels strange saying this, but I felt a sense of satisfaction amongst my rejections and acceptance letters, knowing that the result was a product of all of the work that I had put into high school. These college apps are a definite pain but so so worth it in the end when you can put Senior year in perspective and feel and know that you did your best. It makes going to whichever place you end up going that much more fulfilling.</p>
<p>tl;dr: Put yourself out there, don’t be scared of rejection.</p>
<p>PS I visited both JHU and WUSTL. They were both amazing schools. You can’t go wrong with either. So apply to both :-). WUSTL doesn’t need a supplemental essay if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>This is what you should do. Work your hardest, apply to state schools and elite schools, and see where the chips fall. Financial aid at an elite school may be cheaper than state school tuition, or it may not.</p>
<p>I guess…</p>
<p>Thanks people :)</p>
<p>You can only get a full ride to JHU if your family is really poor and get a ****load of FA or if you attended high school in Baltimore City (Baltimore County does not count), you get a full ride. Despite your obvious objections, this is actually very fair because the people who attend Baltimore City high schools (city college, polytech, etc) usually end up not graduating and screwing up their lives (jail, drugs, gangs, whatever else you can imagine that goes down in downtown baltimore). Most of those kids don’t know what it means to go to college because their parent(s) have not gone to college themselves. Since JHU is located in downtown baltimore, they know that these kids are not gonna be able to afford the 50k tution+expenses and JHU knows that it must have took substantial motivation/determination for these kids to get accepted to a college (let alone, JHU) in such a harsh environment filled with drugs, gangs, poverty and violence.</p>
<p>There is something called the Woodrow Wilson undergraduate research scholarship, which pays 20k for ur tuition every year if u conduct serious research while at JHU. Only a few kids get selected for this thing however.</p>
<p>Osprey–I think you are confusing the Woodrow Wilson fellowship program with the Hodson Scholarship. The Woodrow Wilson program does not pay for tuition but but is a grant of @ $10,000 (spread over four years) to fund research endeavors by undergraduates. </p>
<p>Hopkins offers little merit aid but it does have two programs–the Hodson Trust Scholarship which is a merit award offered to a small number of admittees ( I think up to 20 per year) which covers something like 2/3 of tuition and the Westgate Scholarship which I believe is full tuition but is only available for engineering students and I think only about 2 per year are awarded. All other FA is need based, except for the Baltimore Scholars program. The latter program is designed to achieve one of the goals set out in Mr. Hopkins’ will–to establish a university which would, among many other things, benefit the citizens of Baltimore. It also serves to improve “town-gown” relations with Baltimore and adds to the number of minority students–which is important for a university located in a city where the majority of residents are African-Americans (although not all Baltimore Scholars are minorities).</p>
<p>@osprey099 EWW! Is Baltimore really that bad!!! I might have to rethink going there…</p>
<p>@bonanza you said alot idk what to think about JHU now…</p>
<p>Baltimore is a school in a city. Cities are not perfect. If you are going to rule out JHU based on what you hear about Baltimore, I suggest you forget about WashU (even worse area, St. Louis is awful), Columbia (yes, NYC has improved but not by that much), UChicago (Hyde Park is quite dangerous), Yale (New Haven is pretty gross) and Penn (Philly’s about as nice as Baltimore).</p>
<p>^Oh dang are you serious?! Well okay do you see any of the bad Baltimore while attending JHU?</p>
<p>You can spend all four years in the JHU bubble if you so choose. However, you’d be missing out on a chance to explore the wild, weird, wonderful city of Baltimore, which is something I wouldn’t trade for anything. In any city, there is good and bad.</p>