<p>Correct me if I'm wrong: Your SAT score and GPA are two measures that determine if your application will proceed to further evaluation. In other words, it's the first screening process before your applications are dumped into either the reject pile or consider pile.</p>
<p>If this is true, I don't understand why people on CC constantly say, "You have to have 2300+ to be a competitive applicant at an Ivy League school.." Don't they realize that the median score for top tier schools, such as Harvard, is usually in the low to mid 2200's? That means half of the admitted applicants got lower than that...</p>
<p>My question: What is a competitive SAT score that will get you into the applicant pool for Johns Hopkins (the school I am applying ED)?</p>
<p>Also, JHU does not require subject tests yet they recommend applicants take three... Will applicants who take none or less than 3 be at a disadvantage in the admissions process? By the same token, will people be at an advantage if they have 3 or is that the norm? </p>
<p>Also how is admissions for international students? Is it as rigorous as other universities? Does ED help a lot?</p>
<p>Anybody? Please help me out!</p>
<p>You’re on a roll with these admission threads aren’t you? Relax, you make a competitive applicant and your chances are just about as good as it gets and that’s all the advice anyone can offer you at this point seeing that none of us are working as admission officers</p>
<p>To be honest, I’m not so sure about Hopkins having a specific “cutoff” score for their application pool. I mean its likely they won’t pay too much attention to an application with a 1400 out of 2400 SAT score, but I have seen people be admitted with scores that vary from ones in the low 2000s to ones as high as the upper 2300s. It really depends on the overall application, not necessarily just the score. In other words, it’s not like they’ll look at your score and see that you got a 2000 and straight up decide they’re not going to look at the rest of your application at all.</p>
<p>There is no cutoff score. My son got into schools like WUSTL and JHU with an ACT score of 30, which is equal to about an SAT of 2040. Don’t obsess over test scores, as they are but one part of the admissions process.</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with JHU admissions in particular, but generally speaking, when something is recommended, you might as well consider it a requirement.</p>